Re: Conecting the movements: Call from Libertarians from Tunis
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shawn
on Mar 14, 2013 09:50 PM
Agreed with some of what is said here, mostly the analysis, but I prefer to see for myself and decide my opinion of the World Social Forum and their organizers. I'm very well aware of the critiques that are out there, and if the accusations are true and bad as they say, then I will support them, but perhaps being young and somewhat naive is a gift at this moment, i want to first try and engage the WSF before abandoning it. For what it's worth, at the US Social Forum conference to plan for 2014, the mood was very strongly critical of these same problems. Maybe the tides are changing? #------ Original message ------From: Mikifus Date: 3/14/2013 12:05To: 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion@...;Cc: yoss89@...;Subject:Re: [2011movements-fsm discussion] Conecting the movements: Call from Libertarians from TunisThanks for sharing.I don't agree with all of what they say, but the reason I'm not going to Tunis with you all is because I don't want to receive any molotov cocktail from these people while the police is protecting me. I'd prefer to be on the other side though.
2013/3/14 <tina@...>
Dear all
A friend asked me to foreword you following Call from Libertarians/Disobedience Movement from Tunis "The people want the fall of the system".
Militant regards
T
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Texte in Arabic, French, English here : www.appelsm.wordpress.com
World social forum : 26>30 march 2013. Tunis / Program and calendar here
of the FSM : www.fsm2013.org
Revolutionaries of the world,
On the occasion of the World Social Forum which will be held in Tunisia
during March 2013, we believe that the liberal reformist approach opted
for by the organizing bureaucracy of the Forum will in no way lead to a
revolutionary project for the people of the world. Even though the event
is presented as an opportunity for the revolutionaries coming from all
corners of the globe to meet, we deem that the ultimate objective, namely
the collapse of the capitalist system, will not be taken into
consideration
This Forum will take place in a highly critical time in the history of the
world; social movements and uprisings are sweeping capitalism off its
feet. Rage against the system does not recognize frontiers and
geographical taxonomy of East and West. The so-called democratic states
are as threatened by these risings as the worst dictatorships; the
question to be examined is what are the driving forces of these revolts
from Spain to Egypt and from Greece to Tunisia which are jeopardizing the
capitalist states?
The economic crisis is not a conclusion made by “experts” and professional
critics of the field, even politicians in power and their oppositions
admit that they are incapable of putting an end to the outrageous rates of
unemployment, impoverishment, undernourishment, diseases and pollutions.
The repetitive discourses delivered through mass-media are only
encouraging people to adjust to the situation and await resolutions that
will never come. This proves that the system has resorted to the time-old
strategies of encroachment and propaganda in order to survive one of its
many major crises along history. Wherever and whenever implemented, these
strategies only brought about ravages and precariousness.
Despite the recurrent scenario of democratic succession to power and
elections as a means of power distribution between “left” and “right”,
“liberals” and “conservatives” and despite the huge budgets spent to
organize media campaigns to promote the illusion of “democratic
transition” and “political liberties” or “freedom of expression”, only
disillusionment is installed.
The World Social Forum, which is held and financed by capitalists and
their affiliates, is nothing but an attempt to convince the victims of the
capitalist system that the inherent reason behind the economic crisis are
the so-called “Neo-Liberalism”, “extreme globalization”, “financial
speculations” and worsening debt which they suggest calls for the one and
only alternative and that is the reformation of a system which is the
actual source of these ailments.
Libertarians of the world,
The wretched of the earth are rejecting their everyday reality through
raising and revolting; now they know that union and determination are the
keys to their own liberation and to the liberation of future generations
from the grip of capitalism.
As the wretched and revolutionaries of the world we have to continue the
insurrection in order to liberate our existence from the deadly claws of
capitalism. There is absolutely nothing more powerful than our union and
determination to fight till the last gasp against the oppressive system.
We boycott and oppose to this Forum not only because we refuse to have
anything to do with the bureaucratic syndicalist associations organizing
the event, and because the mere participation in the Forum is equivalent
to being part in the project of promoting for and installing colonialist
collaboration and social submission which are cherished by bourgeoisie,
its media and political mediocrity, but also because we primarily boycott
every reform movement whether it came from the right or the left.
We are the allies of social revolution.
As the crisis is intensifying and is the more felt by the masses we can
see disobedience movements being born all over the world along with
incessantly growing uprisings. These different crises have resulted into
revolutionary movements in different countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen,
and Bahrain as well as social uprisings in Greece, Spain, Portuguese,
Island, and even in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Libertarians of the world,
This call is ours. It is that of the marginalized, the unemployed
graduates and non-graduates, the farmers without lands, women without
voices, the exploited miners, all those that bureaucrats of the WSF
pretend to represent after excluding them from the organizations of
debates. Our call is that of disobedient, revolutionaries and of other
social movements opposed to the capitalist system and authoritarian
governments.
Politicians, media and ideologies,
Sellers of illusion and fear disguised under their reformist customs who
are pretending to be against the capitalist system are only a part of this
very system. We only have to examine the components of this Forum, its
bureaucratic organization and statements to realize that it does not
attack the essence of capitalism and that it is nothing but another
attempt to diminish the rage of the billions of individuals revolting
against hunger, impoverishment and precariousness chanting but one unique
slogan:
“The people want to fall of the regime”
This was the cry the echo of which resonated from Tahrir Square to Wall
Street, from Athena to Tunis and from Barcelona to Bahrain. This cry
carried one simple slogan that frightens the retrograde forces which call
for an accurate articulation of the exact words of the slogan:
“The people want the fall of capitalism”
Capitalism is the system; a particular president, a political party, or a
king, are no more than the temporary guardians of the system and not the
system. They are the docile executioners of its mechanisms regardless of
the form of the government it adopts.
Libertarians of the world,
Mass-media owned by world capitalism spends billions to circulate the
illusion of democratic transitions. It distorts any experience or attempt
of self-organization by workers to manage their own resources because it
threatens capitalist’s best interest.
In order for us to emancipate ourselves today we need to form
revolutionary fronts, coordinate our actions and effectively fight against
the world capitalist regime. We want to trigger real transformation in our
societies which must be based on self-management of resources.
We call upon all the revolutionary forces of the world, movements and
organizations of resistance capitalism to unite our work internationally
against the pseudo-democratic states or dictatorships whether they were
secular or religious, liberal or conservative.
Capitalism is the crisis; the fall of the system is the fall of capitalism !
Disobedience Movement
Mail : contact.appelSM@...
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