A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #363 - Ecology - Les Résistantes 2025: A Look Back at the Second Edition of the Les Résistantes Festival (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Several UCL members participated in the second edition of Les 
Résistantes, a festival of encounters focused on environmental and 
social struggles. The libertarian communists were involved both 
organizationally and politically, participating in numerous technical 
tasks and leading several workshops. A debriefing of the four-day 
festival was provided by the comrades on site... ---- The Les 
Résistantes festival was held from Thursday, August 7th to Sunday, 
August 10th. It was organized by Terres de luttes, in conjunction with 
the local Collectif 924, which opposes the dual carriageway (a recently 
successful initiative...) near Saint Hilaire de Briouze in the Orne 
department. The fields belong to a fellow farmer, and another welcomed 
people from other regions during several preparation weekends.

Our local Orne group, strengthened by the presence of comrades from 
central Brittany, Sarthe, Fougères, Caen, Toulouse, Nantes, and Paris, 
enabled the UCL federation to host a booth throughout the four days of 
the festival.

Collectif 924, in which we are involved, also participated in the 
Résistantes program, developing it since last December and leading 
several workshops throughout the weekend: debates and discussions on the 
state of our public services, and participation in the roundtable 
discussion "What public services for tomorrow?" with the Nos Services 
publics collective, the Sud Rail federation, the Coalition of Hospitals, 
and the local maternity unit. There were also discussions on the 
importance and reasons for unionizing, as well as on defending freedom 
of association. The UCL Ecology Commission led a survey based on several 
texts placing production at the center of ecological thinking, and 
participated in a roundtable discussion on the reappropriation of the 
means of production. A varied program! These rich moments of discussion 
promise to bring to life the mobilizations coming up in September.

Other comrades, as volunteers, contributed to the smooth running of the 
festival, joining the kitchen and techno-dishwasher teams, as well as 
the medical and security teams. This organizational effort demonstrates 
our commitment to this event, which we hope will rekindle our struggles 
and future local dynamics.

We note the continued great organizational capacity of the environmental 
movement, capable of running an event bringing together several thousand 
people in a self-organized manner, while also hosting dozens of 
workshops and roundtable discussions. The issue of care was also well 
thought out, with a dedicated team tasked with addressing potential 
conflicts and preventing and combating sexist and sexual violence.

This year, the program adopted a stronger decolonial angle than in the 
previous edition, devoting several sessions to decolonial ecology, 
anti-imperialism, and anti-racism. Nevertheless, at the end of the 
festival, a collective of people of color spoke publicly to denounce the 
racist mechanisms still at work during the festival and within the 
environmental movement more generally. The call is clear: it's up to us 
to be collectively responsible and take these issues seriously, by 
educating ourselves and listening to those affected by racism on a daily 
basis. It is urgent to do better, and the alarm was raised about the 
significant work that remains to be done in this area within our movements.

The libertarian communists present at the Résistantes

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Les-Resistantes-2025-Retour-sur-la-deuxieme-edition-du-festival-Les-Resistantes
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