A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #345 - Culture, Read Les Utopiens n°24, Unionism and the territories (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

If it is understood that the essential territory of trade unionism is 
the company, the service, the workplace, it should not be reduced to 
this dimension alone. Since its origins, it has exceeded the limits of 
this territory. ---- Trade unionism is aimed at an audience well beyond 
just workers: the unemployed, retired people, young people in training, 
etc. Would the question of social transformation, of the break with the 
capitalist, patriarchal and destructive society of the planet be 
possible without intervening in cities, neighborhoods, villages?

For a long time, trade unionism has created a tool to respond to these 
challenges: these are local inter-professional unions and their 
connection with the Labor Exchanges. Anouk Colombani and Michel 
Tommasini offer us their combined perspectives of Solidaires for the 
first and of the CGT for the second, two complementary insights: on the 
local CGT unions in 93 on the one hand, on the importance of local 
unions on the other hand, from a precise inventory in the CGT.

Territories are political and economic issues; their status, the result 
of history and therefore of the balance of power, is not always that to 
which the people who live there aspire. Guillaume gives us a 
well-documented overview of the emergence of anti-colonial unionism in 
Corsica.

On ecological issues, Verveine Angeli and Jean-Paul Dessaux explore the 
disaster of an ultra-toxic pesticide in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Nara 
Cladera interviews Nathaniel Clavijo on the water crisis in Uruguay, an 
environmental disaster.

This journey from one space to another leads to questions about 
transport policies and the actions of the National Rail Convergence that 
Didier Le Reste comments on. Desertification of regions by the railway 
but also medical deserts, the devastation of the territory due to the 
Olympic and Paralympic Games, fight against megabasins.

The territories are also places of alternatives that this issue 
explores, which is supplemented by five separate articles recalling that 
wages remain a central battle for trade unionism.

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Les Utopiens n° 24, Syndicalism and the territories, Syllepse editions, 
10 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Les-Utopiques-no24-Le-Syndicalisme-et-les-territoires
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