A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #37 - Association for Self-Management, Totò Caggese (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The "Association for Self-Management," founded in France on September 
29, 2011, aims to "preserve and revive the memory of the debates and 
struggles on self-management among all trade union and political 
components of the labor and social movements; to promote and support 
current self-management experiences from the local to the global level; 
and to contribute to the reflections of self-management advocates in the 
social and anti-globalization movement, with a view to transforming 
society." With this article, we begin to introduce the association and 
their concept of self-management.

Self-management is both a goal and a path.
As a goal, self-management represents the form of organization and the 
way in which a society functions, founded on the participation of all in 
economic and political decisions, at every level of collective life, for 
the emancipation of each and every person.

As a path, self-management is necessary to build strength, demonstrate 
that domination and hierarchies are not inevitable, and that another, 
post-capitalist, society is possible. From this perspective, 
self-management is a concrete utopia.
The Association for Self-Management aims to promote reflection and 
popular education on the topic of self-management. It seeks to share 
experiences critically, without transforming them into normative models, 
and to support any initiative with an emancipatory perspective. The 
association brings together men and women, trade unionists, 
cooperatives, activists from the associative world, feminists, 
ecologists, and political activists from diverse backgrounds.
After being prominent in the mobilizations and political debates of the 
1970s, self-management is resurfacing today thanks to multiple struggles 
and experiences around the world (direct democracy, business recovery, 
cooperatives, resistance practices, and alternatives to the system). 
Capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis force us to revisit a 
number of debates.
There is no ready-made model for societal transformation, nor are there 
any fully developed forms of self-managed social organization.

However, starting to ask some fundamental questions already means 
attempting to provide answers:
* What forms of socialization?
* How can we reconcile local and global interests?
* How can we combine the satisfaction of social needs with productive 
capacities and ecological imperatives?
* What institutions should we redefine for a real democracy?
* How can self-managed democracy challenge current institutional forms?
* How can we make equality between women and men effective at all levels 
of decision-making?
* What place should the self-managed process have in transformations and 
ruptures?
Our objective is necessarily international, and our approach is 
alter-globalist, that is, oriented toward promoting a different kind of 
globalization, an alternative to neoliberalism.

To become a member of the Association and contribute to its survival and 
development, simply pay the annual fee (minimum EUR10) to:

Association pour l'Autogestion c/o Syllepse - 69 rue des Rigoles, 75020 
Paris. The association's website is https://autogestion.asso.fr/

https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
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