Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - We, non-wise, obedient
and ... (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Homage to Anne Guérin
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. For the class struggle, against the patriotic struggle by
CNT Catalonia (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL September - 1977: Witch
hunt in the CFDT (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, apo: BLOCK IN SWITCHES, County Court? AND
ELECTRONICS (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
You have had enough of the cynical faiants who go out into the street to defend past
achievements of the past. As we are marching towards a true revolution under the aegis of
our great savior Macron ... This petition is for you. ---- We non-strikers wise, obedient
and resolutely modern, would like to denounce the idlers, the agitators, the trade
unionists who imposed by the general strikes of 1936 and 1968: ---- holidays ; ----
retirement ; ---- higher wages ; ---- the reduction of working time ; ---- the delegates
of companies ... ---- ... and a thousand other stupidities that paralyze the economy,
prevent our employers from dismissing or closing their business, frighten the rich
refugees who must hide in the last tax havens despite the dangers of the crossing.
That's why we offer:
to refund premiums and 13 th months provided for in the collective agreement on the last
three years ;
to renounce the sick child days and excessive leave provided for in the said collective
agreement ;
to prohibit the right to strike and the election of delegates representing the staff.
tract pdf to download
Finally, we demand from the government:
the total abolition of the wealth tax ;
a true taxation of pensioners ;
the closure of social security and housing subsidies ;
the police staffing in batons to disperse the demonstrations.
Thanks to everyone for distributing and widely displaying our petition in your business !
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Message: 2
Anne Guérin left us on Friday 29 September. Anne Guérin passed away at the age of 81 and
it was with some emotion that we learned of her disappearance. Journalist, sociologist,
translator, she was also a committed woman. ---- In 1960, she signed the Manifesto of the
121 which calls the French soldiers to be insubordinate during the war of Algeria and
pronounces in favor of the independence of this French colony. She joined Act up Paris in
the 1990s and the struggle with the AIDS patients. She is involved in the fight against
the prison system and for several years she co-facilitates the prison commission of Act up
Paris. She is also a member of the International Observatory of Prisons. It is also on
this issue that she published in Agone, Prisoners in Revolt, Quotidien carcéral, mutinies
and Prison Policy in France (1970-1980) in 2013 which we reported in our press. She also
co-authored several calls, including solidarity texts and mobilization against repression.
His parents played a significant role in his awareness and commitment. His mother, Marie,
was an Austrian communist activist. In France she worked in the Anarchist Revolutionary
Organization, which was the most important libertarian organization in the first half of
the 1970s. While her relationship with her father, Daniel Guérin, activist and libertarian
writer (member of the ORA and UTCL) were difficult, she took part in the Cercle Daniel
Guérin, which for three years (1989-1991) tried to push the reprints and translations of
these works and also acted to promote the rapprochement between militant- revolutionaries.
She was present at the Loughborough International Symposium in 2004 devoted entirely to
her father's writings and struggles. She also participates in two documentaries. The
first, Daniel Guérin, is directed by Pierre-André Boutang and Annie Chevallay for the
program Oceaniques sur France 3 and the second, Daniel Guérin, combats in the century is
the work of Patrice Spadoni and Laurent Mulheisen and is in the networks activists from
1998 on the occasion of the 10 years of the death of Daniel Guérin.
We have solicited it several times for initiatives or campaigns of solidarity and it has
always responded positively. This was the case when we fostered a campaign for the
liberation of our comrade Antoine, arrested and imprisoned several weeks in the spring of
2016 for his trade union and political activity against the labor law.
We keep from her the memory of a woman committed and able to defend her convictions with
humor and generosity, and we offer our condolences to her family.
Alternative libertarian, October 4, 2017
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Message: 3
Before the bewilderment of some llibertarixs to see how the patriotic fervor has taken to
the street to some cenetistas to go elbow to elbow and flag with nationalistic protestors
together, we have to go to the step to remember that no country, nation or State will make
us free, quite the opposite. In this sense, it is worth rescuing part of the communiqué
"CNT before nationalisms", launched years ago and that for us is fully valid. "The concept
'nation' has served as soon as to encompass or to become independent, 'nation' or
'fatherland' are ideas-force that can be used in very opposite, overwhelming or
emancipatory senses, which for some is gallant patriotism, for others it is coactive
centralist imperialism, what some consider antipatriotic separatism others have as the
maximum affirmation of national identity. The CNT is inimical to the concept of 'country'
except when given the meaning that Malatesta gave him 'my homeland is the world'. "
For us, an example of the contradiction of mixing the class struggle with patriotic
aspirations is evident in the last months we are living in Catalonia. We are witnessing
that in their pretension to "make country" the usual bourgeois right and the so-called
Catalanist left - even the one that claims to be "anti-system" - are giving their hand to
build a new state, Catalan, giving it at the same time the back to who prefers to follow
in what already exists, the Spanish. Following with this communiqué, it was emphasized
that the nationalist argument is "poor and obsessed: in the end they dream of establishing
another State, with their army, their police and their chiefs, but with a different flag
and name." At this point, it is necessary to ask, where has the class struggle remained if
not wrapped in patriotic rags?
It should be clarified that the fact that as anarcho-syndicalists we oppose any new state
does not suppose, as we are maliciously attributed, that we defend the existing one. Those
who use this fallacy should remind them that during the proclamation of the Catalan
Republic of 1934 it was the militancy of the CNT that had to pick up the arms that the
Catalanist patriots threw when the army entered Barcelona without almost difficulty. And
how good they came after us to assault the barracks and shake one another by demonstrating
the viability of self-management and libertarian communism! Unfortunately, this
revolutionary example was appeased by a Generalitat that saw with horror how the
treballadorxs controlled the production and by some communists who were allowed to do what
they wanted, for their counterrevolutionary role as a party of order and in exchange for
the Republic achieve Soviet support. Several decades later, it seems untrue that we are in
a similar situation, though not quite. Before, the anarcho-syndicalists were clear that we
would never become free without having control of production. Now, some of those who are
self-proclaimed, have forgotten it, encourage the working class to languish adopting the
same approach of the institutionalized unions and jointly with a large sector of
citizenship is allowed to drag by what dictates the various "means of intoxication
"according to their interests. And when patriotic parachutes are called for by the
administration and the merchants, when the popular struggle is resumed until it is
appeased in Parliament via ballot boxes or when they want you to choose between different
patriotic cloths, something is wrong.
Nor are we convinced by the arguments of certain anarchists that we can not remain outside
the current social and political process, because in our view this means an uncritical
adherence to approaches that have nothing to do with the emancipation of treballadorxs by
the simple thoughtless will to "do something". It should be assessed and weighed in which
specific initiatives are involved and why, without falling into the "movement for the
movement".
CNT Catalonia, despite everything, we continue to have it clear. We will always be for the
class struggle, never with the struggle between treballadorxs for patriotic reasons that
only benefit the governors eager to cover their tufts and to continue with their privileges.
Health and Social Revolution
CNT Catalonia October 2017
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Message: 4
The CFDT was, after May 1968, a union which carried on a mass scale the anti-capitalist
and self-management struggle, in forms that could be diverse according to federations,
unions, sections. But shortly before the " refocusing " of 1979, a witch-hunt targets
the most active militants. ---- The CFDT is now a trade union organization of class
collaboration, but this has not always been the case. In order to achieve this "
refocusing ", it was necessary to eliminate trade unionists from the mid-1970s. That is
to say those who very often joined the CFDT in the post-68 years, attracted by the radical
positions of the cedete power station and an internal democracy that was not then offered
by the CGT. As early as 1976, for example, the departmental union of Gironde was suspended
because of its support for the committees of soldiers [1]. This turning point, which will
be effective in 1979, at the time of the failure of the struggle of the Lorraine
steelmakers [2], aims to substitute trade unionism for accompanying striking action,
negotiation to the balance of power.
At the Lyon-Gare sorting center, it " moves "
Suspensions, we will go to exclusions. Some union sections are considered to be too
reticent. Their " basist " practices , close to revolutionary syndicalism, can irritate
confederal and federal leaders, who are close to the Socialist Party. This is the case of
the CFDT-PTT section of the Lyon-Gare sorting center. Here is how CFDT trade unionists,
future excluded, present this place where they work and militate: " Lyon-Gare. An old
gray building. Two floors. Attached to the station of Perrache by a covered bridge over
the street Gilibert. The construction has nearly a century of age. It has been cramped for
a long time. Inside, to move around, you have to bypass, sneak, climb the trolleys full
of[postal]bags .[...]Lyon Station. A little more than a thousand employees. For most
agents (sorters of bags) or agents (sorters of letters). Not to mention 300 auxiliaries
who fill the holes, change service and employment, depending on the needs of the
administration, do the dirtiest jobs, are the worst paid and can be thrown out overnight
without notice.[...]Lyon-Gare. Strong organizing of staff (60 to 70 %). Postmen are the
most combative civil servants. The agents of the sorting centers are the most combative
postal workers. Lyon-Gare was one of the first companies in Lyon to go on strike in May
68. It was the first office of the Rhone to start during the strike of 74 [3]. She was the
last to go back to work. With almost 100 % of strikers constantly [4]. "
In this environment and climate, the CFDT section has 185 members and members in 1977. It
was animated by Georges Valero, a postman and writer who had previously passed through the
CGT and the PC before " buckling " with Mai 68, and was " moving " . That is to say,
it easily goes to conflict, promotes general assemblies and does not forbid itself to
speak on the workplace of LIP [5], antimilitarism, ecology ... It is this who will be
reproached.
The thunderclap of exclusion
On 27 September 1977, the 20 members of the executive committee of the CFDT section of the
Lyon-Gare sorting center were excluded by the departmental office of the CFDT-PTT
syndicate of the Rhone following an inquiry by its national office [6]. The issue of trade
union democracy is at the heart of this collective exclusion. For the departmental office,
the Lyon-Gare EC is a de facto " trend " by taking autonomous initiatives that do not
respect the " federalism " of the CFDT. He is accused of having acted on behalf of the
section " outside any decision of the structures responsible for the CFDT "whether in
the anti-militarist struggle, the " coordination of struggles " around the PIL or the
participation in the anti-nuclear demonstration in Creys-Malville. For the national and
regional authorities of the CFDT-PTT, this is explained by the leftist influence within
the EC of Lyon-Gare. Thus the holding of a meeting of the " trade union left " of the
CFDT-PTT Rhone at the home of a member of the EC in 1975 or reproduction of a leaflet of
the Communist Workers' Organization (OCT small organization of the extreme left of the
time) in the newspaper of the section are among the grievances made to the excluded. For
the members of the EC of Lyon-Gare, who argue that there is an intrusion on the internal
democratic rules of their exclusion, there is no " Fractionalism ", insofar as they
consider to be representative of their base. An " excluded postal worker ", interviewed
by Libération, testifies to the union practices at Lyon-Gare: " For each initiative, it
was a matter of gathering as many members as possible, being all the time closest to the
base. As soon as there was a problem, we said to ourselves - "We go up to the local" and
we discussed with the most adherents possible. " [7].On 3 October 1977 the EC excluded
united the members of the Section. One hundred and twenty sign a motion reaffirming their
confidence and requesting immediate reinstatement. A few days before, on September 30 the
excluded issued a statement to " all the CFDT-PTT union, to all CFDT union, to all
structures, associations, UR, UD, Unions, sections, UIB " where they called to a " battle
" for their reintegration. Losing this battle at the CFDT-PTT departemental congress of
the Rhone on 23 May 1978 (by 40 warrants against 28 and 5 abstentions), members of the EC
will nevertheless hold meetings with other excluded at the doors the 38 th confederal
congress CFDT of Brest, in 1979.
For trade union democracy
This exclusion does not go unnoticed. On the one hand, because the outsiders have
organized themselves so that this is known - and it works because several sections,
unions, basic inter-professional unions (UIB, another name given to the UL) and even the
CFDT Finance Federation split to take official positions against exclusions and write to
the CFDT-PTT federation and the Confederation. On the other hand, because it is an
opportunity for all the critical trade unionists to campaign for trade union democracy.
This is the case, for example, of the trade unionists of the young Union of Liberal
Communist Workers (UTCL), and more particularly of its very active postal sector [8]. The
reading grid is that of a subordination of the interests of the union to those of the PS
(several CFDT-PTT leaders are members of the Ceres, a current of the PS): " The militants
of the Socialist Party have been trying for some time to make the CFDT the belt of
transmission of a party that does not enjoy a good image in the working class. For that
everything is good. We forget the reference to the principle of federalism and the power
of the adherents, we erase everything that had allowed the development of the CFDT after
1968 on ideas of self-management democracy, etc. Political power, the place of decisions
tends to move more and more. The sections are increasingly fragmented, the leading role of
regional unions is developing.[...]In this case, what the libertarian communist militants
defend is not this or that political group, it is the necessity for a democratic
functioning of the trade union organization: trade union democracy. " [9]
Added to this is the context of the parliamentary elections of March 1978: " Our
bureaucrats have no scruples. Their goal is clear: by preventing protest in the trade
union organization, they think they can prevent the workers from continuing the struggle
if the left comes to the government in 78. " At that time the union of the left,
combining PCF and PS, is indeed tipped to win and this perspective is seen as an
inevitable " political outlet " to the struggles of the past decade [10]. For combative
syndicalists and the far left, it is clear that such a victory (which will not take place)
can not hinder struggles so as not to disturb the " comrades ministers ".
In both analyzes, there is a strong demand for self-management democracy: in the union,
with the emphasis on " power to the members " against the control of the Ceres / PS and
political tendencies ; and, more broadly, of workers' autonomy vis-a-vis the government,
the State and the parties.
From self-managed CFDT to alternative syndicalism
But to lead this campaign is also an opportunity to point out that in the CFDT "
democratic ", there can be exclusions, as at the " Stalinist " CGT . Of course, for the
confederation CFDT, this is only one more leftist agitation. And the CFDT News, of October
14, 1977, did not refrain from igniting counter-fires in this sense: " As regards an
issue internal to the PTT syndicates of the Rhone and the federation, the other structures
did not not to intervene under the pressure of other sections CFDT, with the support of
militants OCT and the LCLU in particular, groups to which several excluded. "(in fact,
the UTCL has no active activist in Lyon at this time). The section of Lyon-Gare is
presented as " divided into autonomous sub-sections ", living " on the sidelines of the
union " and whose militants seek to " permanently thwart democratic union practice ".
On the contrary, the discourse of those who reject these exclusions is based on the
democratic legitimacy of the members.
Other sections, undoubtedly also too stirring, will pay for what becomes, even before the
" refocusing " Of 1979, a veritable wave of exclusions. In January 1978, the BNP section
of the Parisian banking syndicate, with more than 1,000 members, was suspended. In March
1979, the trade union council of the CFDT section of Usinor-Dunkerque, with its 800
members, was suspended. The question arises of the maintenance of trade union collectives
which have been built under the CFDT label for several years. First of all, it must be
remembered that for many, disoriented and disgusted, this signals the end of their
commitment. But others continue. Joining the CGT is then not an option, as this power
plant is the opposite of the trade unionism they practice.
In order to preserve the collective tool built over several years, " the human and living
activity of trade unionism " [11], the first alternative and independent trade unions
were created: the Democratic Union of Banks (SDB) (SLT) of Usinor-Dunkerque and,
concerning the postal workers of Lyon-Gare, the Self-Managing Workers' Union, the SAT.
A few years later, in June 1984, it was again excluded from the CFDT, at Air Inter, who
created the National Union of Inter-Transport Personnel (SNPIT). Then it was the creation
in 1989 of the first union Solidaires, Unitaires, Démocratiques (SUD), to the PTT
precisely [12], before their multiplication after the strikes of November-December 1995.
It will then be seen that this trade union left forged in the fights of the post-68 years,
profoundly marked by the dynamic self-management and resolutely anti-capitalist managed to
give itself a future.
Theo Rival (AL Orléans)
[1] See " 1975: they live, soldiers committees " Alternative Libertaire in January 2015,
and " Challenging the military. Soldiers' Committees, Antimilitarism and Syndicalism in
the Seventies ", The Utopics of June 2017.
[2] See " The barons of steel who had laid their ass on the whole region, and had been
breathing through the steel industry " in Alternative Libertarian No. 182 of March 2009.
[3] See " 1974: the great strike of the PTT ", Alternative libertarian of November 2014.
[4] Excerpts from the introduction of the dossier presented by the 20 members of the
executive committee of the Lyon-Gare Sorting Center on their exclusion from the CFDT-PTT
syndicate of the Rhone, a 32-page brochure published in 1977. Confederal archives CFDT,
Organization Sector, 8H2226.
[5] See " 1973: Lip, Lip, Lip, Hooray ! " Alternative libertarian of June 2013.
[6] See Jorge Valero, Neither God nor Mayor. From Charléty to Black Sheep, La Digitale,
1989 and Christian Chevandier, La Fabrique d'une génération. Georges Valero postman,
activist and writer, Les Belles Lettres, 2009.
[7] " " We were on all ", interview of a postman excluded from the CFDT ", remarks
collected by Chantal Desprez, Libération, October 21, 1977.
[8] Theo Rival, Trade Unionists and Libertarians. A History of the Union of Libertarian
Communist Workers (1974-1991), Alternative Libertarian editions, 2013.
[9] " CFDT-PTT-Lyon, union democracy ", signed by the sector PTT UTCL, All power to the
workers of 15 November 1977.
[10] This will not happen and it will not be until 1981 for the PS to take power ... with
the success that we know in terms of " political outlet " to the struggles. See " 1982:
the left in power is converted to" rigor " , Alternative libertarian of June 2012.
[11] Patrice Spadoni, " About Independent Unions ," Fight ! (monthly of the UTCL) of
February 1986.
[12] Éric Sionneau, " 1988: of the" black sheep "found SUD-PTT ", Alternative
libertarian n ° 177 of October 2008.
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Message: 5
For many months, we have been gathering every Wednesday afternoon in front of the Patras
County Court to prevent our fellow residents' auctions. Together with other fighters,
student clubs, collectives and organizations, we have managed - at the present time - to
put down mounds in the attempt to get the first home from the state and the banks. ----
Respective mobilizations are carried out by a number of people at county courts throughout
the country. Mobilizations that have occasionally been targeted by state repression and
resulted in the persecution of several fighters. ---- Today, the inability of the state
and capitalist system to draw consensus on its plans leads to the gradual replacement of
auctions in peace courts and the adoption of the method of electronic auctions through the
legally validated by the legislature relevant online platform. Electronic auctions will be
conducted with the care of local notary offices on various days and hours.
Despite government announcements about the immediate operation of the system in September,
technical issues, according to the official version, have not yet allowed its
implementation. In fact, the development of a militant and unwavering defense of housing
and basic social goods coupled with widespread aggravation of social anger and indignation
brought about by the assault of the bosses have created a climate of complete
socialization of the measure, - which will entail enormous political costs for the
government - to be postponed, now at the end of the year.
True allies throughout this aggressive movement of the state and capital are the big
notary offices, which act as the long hand of the banks by undertaking the implementation
of electronic auctions. As if this was not the case, the Notary Association of Patras and
West Sterea has recently decided to abstain from auctioning by the end of the year, but
not to prevent the exploitation of popular property but with a basic demand for their
proper conduct and the protection of notaries from "attacks by groups or individuals who
are indiscriminately directed against any auctions";proposing that the auctions be held in
normal court hours and in a hall within the patrimony of Patras to ensure their smooth
conduct. Nobody is responsible ...
We clearly state that we will continue to struggle against the attempt to impose the
regime of exploitation and oppression at every point where the aggression of the bosses
and the state manifests itself. Housing, as well as access to basic social goods
(electricity, water, health, education) are non-negotiable rights and we will defend them
against the state which once again bangs the lower and poorer social strata confirms its
diachronic antisocial role .
The only way to be able to respond to this attack we are experiencing is the road of
social and class struggles. Employees, the unemployed, the youth, the locals and the
immigrants, knowing their real needs, must take their lives, organize themselves and
fight, collectively, self-organized and uninvolved, in every social and workplace, schools
and schools, workplaces, neighborhoods and streets, away from any party and syndicalist
manipulation that inevitably leads to the weakening and degeneration of the social and
class movement. It is now perceived that people from the bottom of society, they can no
longer have any confidence and can not wait for anything from the various aspiring
managers and mediators of social anger. The only way to abolish exploitation and
oppression is self-organized, uninterrupted, unbridled social and class struggles, for the
total rupture and overthrow of the state and capitalism.
To link the few and demanding struggles for permanent and stable work, access to the
social goods of housing, care, education, for the defense of labor and social rights, with
the comprehensive and timely social and political demand for the revolution of the rotten
world of power and the libertarian transformation of society.
The insidious approaches of the state, the bosses, the bankers and their notaries will
fall into the gap. No attempt to evict will be tolerated. Safeguard our neighborhoods,
apply social solidarity and class self-organization in practice.
NO PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSE
TO ORGANIZE THE SOCIAL AND DOCTORAL AUTONOMY!
CONCENTRATION IN THE PATRAS HOLIDAYS
EVERYTHING TO 3.30 PM
anarchist group "dignified horse" - a member of the Anarchist Political
Organization
Patra, 10 October 2017
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