A-Infos (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Against the Common Enemy: Capital (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

September 10: A Planned Revolution? For decades, the world of finance 
has been in power, but the wave of social measures and institutions born 
in the post-war period prevents it from achieving the exponential growth 
whose logarithmic curves it has plotted on its graphs. It is not money 
that its members need; they already have everything they could possibly 
desire. No, they need numbers with multiple zeros in their accounts, 
they need the fantasy representation of money and the smell of power, of 
authority. ---- So, since the politicians they placed on the throne 
disappoint them, they installed a true manager, bold and inflexible, in 
2017. He's done a lot of work to destroy everything, but he still needs 
to be boosted, to take advantage of the time he has left as president to 
go even faster, even further: to destroy everything that remains of 
social protection. These are uncertain times: we have to move forward.

It's buzzing on the web

And it's Bayrou who's doing it. But since the austerity-laced 
announcements of our first sinister François Bayrou on July 15th, it's 
buzzing on the web. We're being promised, via social media, a nationwide 
lockdown for September 10th. For now, we don't know much except that it 
looks like a resurgence of the Yellow Vest protests. Although the 
movement claims to be unrelated to political parties or unions, the far 
right, still active on social media, is already trying to co-opt this 
hypothetical movement in the making.

It's important to keep in mind that the fascist galaxy has been waging a 
fairly effective multi-front offensive for several years, and even more 
so now that they're feeling the need to grow wings, with a 
well-thought-out strategic vision.

The steamroller is occupying all fields in the quest to build a cultural 
majority: institutions (RN, hard right, etc.), cultural dissemination 
(Bolloré, Stérin, etc.), popular debates and digital networks (Zemmour, 
Hanouna, X-rated posts, etc.), student circles (UNI, Cocarde, etc.), 
infiltration of popular protests (GJ, anti-vaxxers, etc.), etc.

It's unclear exactly where the September 10th movement came from, except 
that it started shortly before the announcement of Bayrou's austerity 
plan on July 14th, on TikTok, by an organization called "Les essentiels" 
(The Essentials) (see Libération, July 25th), and was then immediately 
relayed by former Yellow Vest figures. With a strong crypto-fascist 
flavor...

Since then, quite a few organizations have supported this call, from 
Earth Uprisings to Extinction Rebellion, including Contre Attaque, the 
autonomous milieus, LFI, and the far left.

On the union side, there's been almost total silence for the moment. At 
the time of writing, FO (French Labour Union) has issued a strike notice 
starting September 1st, and the CGT (French Trade Union Confederation) 
trade and chemical industry federations are calling for a strike on 
September 10th.

If the spark were to ignite...

What should we make of all this? Well, any popular reaction and attempt 
at direct democracy seems like a good thing in itself.

If, as with the Yellow Vests, the spark were to ignite, a mass popular 
movement could well emerge.

If this were the case, the demands and organization of what is launched 
would not matter. This could be a great opportunity for unions, as for 
all protest movements, to join forces on the dates and methods of 
action. Not to hijack the movement (which is always harmful), but so 
that each organization can advance its own legitimate demands alongside 
one another. This would not leave initiatives in the hands of 
"fascist-friendly" groups, but rather by creating a kind of Assemblies 
of Struggle, bringing together organizations that fight and demonstrate 
against the right and the far right.

Therefore, perhaps, on September 10th, there will be an opportunity to 
create a large mass popular movement that could bring together all those 
who are fed up with austerity for the benefit of profiteers.

Let's hope, then, that if the match strikes, all of France's activist 
organizations will support the movement in order to give a chance to a 
multi-demand movement capable of challenging the true common enemy of 
all: capital.

David Perdrix and Franck Plazanet

https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8503
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