A-Infos (en) France, OCL: Courant Alternatif April 2024 Journal Commission - Paris - Debate on the social impact of the Olympics (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Commission Journal d'Île-de-France April 20-21, 2024 EDMP, 8 impasse 
Crozatier, Paris 12th (metro Gare de Lyon or Reuilly-Diderot)
Program
SATURDAY
Debate on the social impact of the Olympics: 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Break: 5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Critique of Alternating Current 339: 5:15 p.m.-7 p.m.
Aperitif-meal: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Wishes and proposals for Courant Alternatif 341: 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sunday morning
  Wishes and proposals continuation and end: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Introductory text to the debate

Every four years, a city is drawn to host the nationalist High Mass of 
capitalist sport: the Olympic Games (OG). This company, celebrated with 
great media support (Macron's "Sports Nation") seeks to mobilize the 
whole of society, from projects with students in nursery schools to 
volunteers responsible for providing foreign tourists with a pleasant 
time in the quasi-militarized "fan zones", from begging to have the 
Olympic flame pass through many cities in France to promises to build 
sports infrastructures which we have already seen are rarely profitable 
for local populations in the long run. term.

The Olympic Games have distinguished themselves wherever they have been 
through pharaonic costs, a militarization of public space and the 
experimentation with surveillance technologies that States struggled to 
impose, a lasting state of police and social exception (restriction of 
movement in the "red zones", desired suspension of the right to strike), 
a mobilization of a servile "volunteer" workforce very much in line with 
the precariousness of wage employment, an accelerated gentrification in 
working-class neighborhoods, with great reinforcements of expulsions of 
squats and beatings of migrants, the acceleration of urban projects 
(Grand Paris) taking advantage of the Olympic consensus... Capitalist 
normality but "faster, higher, stronger" (motto of the Olympics). The 
Olympics therefore constitute a tremendous opportunity for the 
capitalist class to strengthen its profits and its domination with less 
protest.

In Île-de-France, and particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis, the heart of 
the Olympic Games, the pill is not easy to pass to all the inhabitants, 
especially when part of the population mobilizes against the 
dilapidation programmed by successive budget cuts for schools and hospitals.

We would like to address several questions related to the impacts of the 
Olympic Games:
* even if the prohibitive price of tickets has largely dissipated the 
idea of "popular games", the enthusiasm for the sporting spectacle is 
widely shared among those who do not suffer its direct impact. How can 
we fight against the nationalist ideological regimentation that is 
currently very popular, as we see with the Olympics and the SNU?
* the general mobilization of the workforce to ensure the holding of the 
Olympic Games ("France Travail" training in security with strong 
incentives, recruitment of young volunteers) in a context of successive 
reforms of the RSA, unemployment insurance, initial training and 
continuing training, contributes to the general dynamic of 
precariousness of the workforce through the contractual vagueness 
between salaried employment and free work. How can we build links to 
organize resistance on these issues?
* the importance of holding the Olympic Games without a hitch for those 
in power. Is there still a window of opportunity open for workers and 
all those who fight against capitalist land development projects 
(Greater Paris)?

Contact: oclidf@riseup.net

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4136
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