A-Infos (en) Italy, Livorno, FAL: LET'S DESERT THE BALLOTS, LET'S FILL THE SQUARES! THURSDAY 6/06 AT 9PM AT THE FAL (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Faced with the upcoming local and European elections, don't vote, 
organize and fight. ---- The much vaunted democracy is always a 
deception, but in the case of the European elections it reaches the 
point of ridiculousness. ---- The European Union has its center of power 
in the European Commission, not in the European Parliament, which does 
not even have the possibility of proposing laws, but simply ratifies 
what has been decided by the Commission. ---- The role play between the 
Commission and national governments ensures that the actions of both are 
free from any control. Governments are forced to adopt anti-popular 
measures because they are bound by the stability plans of the European 
Union, while the Commission is forced to adopt these policies because 
some national governments want it that way. Ultimately, neither one nor 
the other end up being bound by the so-called popular will that would be 
expressed in elections.
The various competing electoral lists have in common, in a more or less 
marked way, unacceptable issues: the plans to increase competitiveness 
and strengthen Europe's role compared to other economic powers in a 
capitalist context, the plans to protect the European energy supply 
through predatory policies of territorial exploitation also supported by 
specific military missions, plans to build walls on the borders and arm 
ourselves to the teeth according to the war policy lines that 
characterize European foreign policy.

On the administrative elections front, the music is no different. In 
this period we have witnessed the assembly of imaginative lists created 
by political forces that have joined forces even in incomprehensible 
ways in order to participate in the party game with the symmetrical 
deployment of the lists and strategic agreements in the event of a 
run-off. Accepting the rules of the system means having dull and 
narrow-minded, if not contradictory, programs that are often 
disconnected from the reality of the struggles. It means foreseeing that 
there may be space for the right, which democratically has the right to 
represent. It means locking yourself in the asphyxiated dimension of 
motions if you are in opposition, shaking hands with businessmen, 
soldiers and various lobbies if you dream of governing the city.

The five-year period of the piddì restoration did not mark any 
discontinuity with the five-star administration. The city's problems 
remained unchanged and it was not the city council that addressed them, 
much less resolved them. The real struggles constantly take place 
outside the council chambers, in the bottom-up structures created by 
networks of working and unemployed citizens, those where the method of 
struggle rejects the mechanism of delegation and electoral exploitation.

Change doesn't come through the ballot box. The vote cannot shake up the 
city, but only fuel harmful illusions.
In a city where the problems are called unemployment, exploitation, 
housing, school buildings, militarization, repression, pollution, 
environmental destruction, the solution does not pass through the ballot 
box.

Voting is useless. The European and local elections are a scam.
Abstaining is the first step to saying no to all this!
Fighting and organizing from below without giving in to the deception of 
the ballot box is essential to truly change society

To discuss it together we will meet on Thursday 6 June at 9pm at the 
Livorno Anarchist Federation, Via degli Asili 33

Livorno Anarchist Federation

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