When you are a handful of marxist militants, who claim to be in the Third Camp’s tradition in a country like France, where there are three big trotskyist organisations living from more than 40 years, with a large political and social influence, despite they are still not at the same level as the PS or the PCF, so you need to have a tool to tell your ideas, your conception and help organise actions according to your political orientation.
That need for a paper, a bulletin is reinforced when the politics or the internal life of these big organisations don’t allow to be active in them on long term or with efficiency.
But what makes more necessary such a voice is the present political and social situation in France as it appeared in the movement by workers expressed by the vote No at the 29 may referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty and, during the last three months, by the youth and students movement against the CPE and the casualisation of labour and the pressure forward the general strike expressed by the big demonstrations and strikes on February, March and April.
In these two cases, what makes the issues successful is not what provided the official leadership of the labour movement but what the rank and file imposed against the will of the summits.
In 2005, whatever PS or PCF or CFDT or CGT or FO or FSU displayed as electoral consign (Yes or No) what they didn’t want was the victory of the No as an expression of the massive rejection of the iron heel of capitalism .
In 2006, the pressure of youth and workers obliged all of the top union and left officials to say “down with the CPE” – even Chéréque, the scab leader of the CFDT – but what that leaders don’t want is a general strike who put the fall of the government on the agenda.
So we got a victory against the CPE but the government, the bosses and the top officials avoid the development of a general strike. They avoid the fall of the government. That round is over, now we must prepare for the next round in order to go towards our final goal: workers’ power and socialism.
That’s why APS exists! Now it is a very little bulletin with short resources (a web site and a web blog but no office, no bank account) but if you believe in your ideas, in the capacity of workers to change the world, that is the basement of Marxism, you must take your keyboard, write, shape your ideas, and dispatch them to help the struggles and organisation of workers.
In day to day activities, we operate with the bulletin Liaisons who associates militants from different traditions. We plan in the coming year to publish documents from Third Camp’s tradition and analysis promoting the self activity of workers and international solidarity.
In that task, your press (Solidarity, the AWL web site, yours leaflets, your analysis) is playing a big part. So we wish you a good conference in order to help the growth of a revolutionary voice of the labour movement.
Paris, 27 april 2006
That need for a paper, a bulletin is reinforced when the politics or the internal life of these big organisations don’t allow to be active in them on long term or with efficiency.
But what makes more necessary such a voice is the present political and social situation in France as it appeared in the movement by workers expressed by the vote No at the 29 may referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty and, during the last three months, by the youth and students movement against the CPE and the casualisation of labour and the pressure forward the general strike expressed by the big demonstrations and strikes on February, March and April.
In these two cases, what makes the issues successful is not what provided the official leadership of the labour movement but what the rank and file imposed against the will of the summits.
In 2005, whatever PS or PCF or CFDT or CGT or FO or FSU displayed as electoral consign (Yes or No) what they didn’t want was the victory of the No as an expression of the massive rejection of the iron heel of capitalism .
In 2006, the pressure of youth and workers obliged all of the top union and left officials to say “down with the CPE” – even Chéréque, the scab leader of the CFDT – but what that leaders don’t want is a general strike who put the fall of the government on the agenda.
So we got a victory against the CPE but the government, the bosses and the top officials avoid the development of a general strike. They avoid the fall of the government. That round is over, now we must prepare for the next round in order to go towards our final goal: workers’ power and socialism.
That’s why APS exists! Now it is a very little bulletin with short resources (a web site and a web blog but no office, no bank account) but if you believe in your ideas, in the capacity of workers to change the world, that is the basement of Marxism, you must take your keyboard, write, shape your ideas, and dispatch them to help the struggles and organisation of workers.
In day to day activities, we operate with the bulletin Liaisons who associates militants from different traditions. We plan in the coming year to publish documents from Third Camp’s tradition and analysis promoting the self activity of workers and international solidarity.
In that task, your press (Solidarity, the AWL web site, yours leaflets, your analysis) is playing a big part. So we wish you a good conference in order to help the growth of a revolutionary voice of the labour movement.
Paris, 27 april 2006
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