A-Infos (en) France, CNT-AIT: Anarchosyndicalisme #185 - March 2024 Content + Editorial (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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And the warmakers pumped, pumped...
Editorial:
Let's Reset the World of Work
World of work:
International week to combat unpaid debts.
Olympic security.
About peasant unionism.
Internationalism in practice.
Theory:
To the CNT, for anarchosyndicalism.
Letters from readers
Do with the school for our anarchist project.
Briefs
Various texts.
Obituary
In memory of Rédouane.
Solidarity
Scandal in Montauban.
International
The darkest hour before dawn?
Sudan, fighting reaches Wad Madani.
Israel: 2nd prison sentence for an objector.

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Let's rearm... the world of work!
PUBLISHED ON MARCH 10

This injunction is fashionable; our rulers use it everywhere. Military 
rearmament,
rearmament of education, industrial rearmament, demographic rearmament, 
morale etc.,
It must be said that these are warlike times, and when the time comes, 
not a gaiter button should
lacking, and minds must be prepared.

Let us recognize that we are living in a special moment: never have our 
societies been threatened by so many perils which are so many mortal 
dangers: global warming, collapse of biodiversity, depletion of 
resources, poisoning of environments due to various pollutions and risks 
very serious major conflict. The future is uncertain to say the least.

Of course, governments, to escape this vicious spiral, have been 
implementing programs for several years whose effectiveness is, to say 
the least, doubtful. Global warming is accelerating, biodiversity 
continues to collapse, the poisoning of water, land and air continues 
and it is not the latest measures from the French government that will 
reverse this trend. Finally, to face the risk of war, all states have 
launched massive rearmament programs.

Only industrialists from the arms sector are at the party! There is no 
reason to worry if our leaders are to be believed. It is a well-known 
reflex that the approach of bankruptcy encourages the leaders of a 
company or a state in this situation to embark on increasingly risky, 
more and more scabrous projects. They hope for a miracle, try everything 
and generally only make things worse and precipitate the predicted 
catastrophe.

The game played by the leaders of the great powers increasingly 
resembles this scenario; the masters of the world are ready to do 
anything to preserve their prerogatives and the ostensible signs of 
their power; the fate of the populations does not matter to them as long 
as their dominant status is not shaken.

If the capitalist economy continues to function, if the profits of 
multinationals have never been so high, if the stock market has never 
been so high, in the end it is only appearance.
Because this exalting and limitless system, this race for power and 
wealth, which makes happiness and freedom simple consequences of wealth 
(Individuals or states, the more wealth we accumulate, the more, he 
claims, than this accumulation makes us free and happy).
But this system is undermined by its contradictions: eternal growth in a 
finite world is a rational impossibility.

The rules of capitalism make each individual the competitor of all 
others, they deny the values of solidarity and mutual aid, divide 
society into antagonistic classes (class of exploited against class of 
exploiters), and maintain between nation-states a permanent economic 
and/or military war. Finally, and this is not the least terrible, human 
societies under the influence of commercial ideology have been waging a 
merciless war on nature for several centuries.

For several centuries, many thinkers have denounced the harms of this 
system by showing its fundamentally unjust, unequal and deadly 
character. The collapse of the great natural ecosystems which are the 
basis of life on earth, sufficiently prove today that these choices 
inevitably lead us to a dead end, in short, that it is absolutely suicidal.

The need to abolish this system and its rules, a solution recommended by 
all the revolutionary thinkers of the 19th century, has today become an 
absolute imperative.
If this observation can today be widely shared by any sincere and 
conscious person, the question of how to organize the society of the 
future, define these foundations to build it, seems much more difficult?

In reality, this problem is one that has posed itself to humanity since 
the beginnings of the Neolithic, since the appearance of the first 
states. From the moment when human communities have chosen to abandon to 
certain categories of people, priests, kings, dictators, aristocrats or 
simple representatives, the power to decide what is good for the 
community, to impose their laws, these human communities have lost 
control of their destiny. The class of new masters has confiscated power 
for its own privileged benefit
systematically its immediate interests, through the accumulation of 
wealth, satisfying the desire for conquest and domination - desire for 
power and enjoyment of egos - thus sacrificing the interests of the 
community. The looming disasters are only the consequence of these 
abandonments.

Today, all of humanity is forced to choose:

Either to continue on the same path, to trust again and again in smooth 
talkers who from then on, taking the pretext of both warlike and 
ecological necessities, will demand by force or terror measures of 
social control, restriction of freedoms and reduction in the standard of 
living at least for the working classes. It is on this path that the 
current French government has already embarked.
Either to establish a radical break with present reality, and to embark 
on the construction of an absolutely new world, which, abandoning the 
cult of merchandise, power and power, will give itself the essential 
mission of ensuring each individual the means of their development.
In this society, the quality of life will no longer be measured by the 
quantity of goods accumulated, but by the quality of social ties developed.

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