Some considerations on days anti NATO in the capital of the EU Delegation of the written National Network Disarmiamoli ! the counter-summit of the 3 - 4 April 2009
Switched off the fires on the outskirts of Strasbourg, the "grandeur" of France from now on will be measured within an alliance that is right now not inclined to please the little round of De Gaulle , Nicolas Sarkozy.
The clash with the United States on Turkey is just one of many contradictions that are likely to increase rather than resolving the serious problems of management of an alliance increasingly sick with elephantiasis, unable to resolve the Afghan conflict on the ground in impasse on the draft "shield antimissile”, bloccata dalla Russia nell’offensiva georgiana contro l’Ossezia del Sud.
Il sofferto allargamento della NATO ad Est, il tentativo di integrazione con le strutture militari della UE, le ipotesi di proiezione di potenza ben oltre l’area eurasiatica e mediorientale indicano però una tendenza alla “soluzione militare” per affrontare la gravissima crisi economica attraversata dal sistema capitalistico.
Montare sul treno della guerra è di vitale importanza. Chi ne rimane escluso rischia di esserne schiacciato. Ecco quindi il feroce sgomitare di Stati e classi dirigenti: Tutti sui vagoni, possibilmente in prima classe, con il rischio di far deragliare l’intero convoglio. Al when the contribution of the global justice movement is the desired rail accident in the light of the facts of Strasbourg, quite weak.
The hosts of the summit were to ensure, at the time of the "big return" in the alliance, an absolute calm in the heart of the city around the palaces of the Western military power. So it was.
To keep at a safe distance from the militant anti-NATO meeting places of "adults" were used more than 10,000 policemen in the sky, on land and in water, with dozens of patrol boats and distributed around the bridges that cross the ' Ill.
Strasbourg has become in a few days a city under siege, with the citizens of orange and red areas reduced to a condition of supervised special. Each with a background color of the area of \u200b\u200bresidence, then proved useless in the important moments of the summit in the morning and afternoon of Saturday, April 4, when even that is served to move from one area to another.
We have seen some complaints of individual citizens, but on the whole body of a town that thrives around the European institutions are not organized against the state of siege imposed by NATO. The "Western democracy" has its costs, which are obviously more fortunate subjects willing to pay.
The diverse movement flowed against the war in the French city has never found a moment of true political synthesis, both with respect to current and future strategies of war against the alliance, and for the management of the square on the same days of the summit.
We have observed the work of the many souls of the movement, or what's left of it, in the historical forms of the European Social Forum, through the various expressions of political, cultural, trade union.
During the counter-summit Friday, April 3, held inside the sports center of Illkirch Lixenbhul (on the far outskirts of the city), in front of about 800 to 1,000 participants compared to the exponents of the various forces present, PCF, the French CGT, NPA (New French anticapitalist party), Socialist Workers (English), the German Linke, the Greek Committee for International Peace (Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace - EEDYE), some Members GUE, Attac France, women in black and other small political groups eminently German, Polish, English. The Italian presence was much reduced with the presence of about 30 activists of the pact against war and women in black.
The counter summit was organized by the Social Forum, in our opinion, substantially watered down in content and weak in political points of reference.
No direct reference to the role of imperialist Europe, not a word about the war "constituent" of the new NATO, or the bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Greek side of the issue EEDYE the ouster by the organizing committee. Despite this, it was thanks to them that the aggression in the Balkans has been reported and discussed through an entire session of the counter top.
Invitations to say the least objectionable to the final debate (which we participated) of 5 April, with a revived Lidia Menapace among the speakers. Yes, just that old lady during the Prodi government, to justify his vote in favor of employment and the NATO bombing Afghanistan invented the chilling theory of "harm reduction".
revealed a weakness with the additional clarity during the organizational meeting for the anti-NATO demonstration on 4 April, with representatives of the French Social Forum to propose acceptance of the route indicated by the last minute: a path to 8-10 km from the center, practically between the hangars of industrial and commercial area.
The debate on the topic revealed a deep and substantial differences in the management of the square, between those who accepted the representation in the suburbs and those who wished to retain the initial leg of crossing the bridge of Europe, towards the summit. The
events determinatisi square the next day will highlight the substantial factual inconsistency and futility of that comparison. But we will mention this later.
No wonder if some of the most radical anti-war movement is to be agglutinated in other places and in other ways, such as the social center Molodoi ", rue du Ban of Roche and camping International Rue de Ganzau, in the suburb of Neuhof, confined to 7 km from the city center. In these places, other themes, other stakeholders and the objectives in question.
Surprisingly, some political forces in different countries expression of content and consequent struggles against imperialist militarism, continue to attend areas where these are now feeble and inadequate to meet the new challenges posed to humanity by capitalism in profound crisis and is particularly aggressive.
Saturday, April 4. On the outskirts of Strasbourg
Needless to describe the dynamics of the real events of the main day of the summit and the false summit, the clashes between demonstrators and police (about the events we are preparing a very detailed video). Have spoken of this abundantly hired agencies regime, with endless freeze on fires and revived and "fierce" black block.
The management of the square by the system of control and repression the States concerned (France and Germany in particular) was nearly flawless.
After a full day of fighting, an 8-storey hotel is completely burned up along with the large structures that contained the offices near the border bridge in Europe, the injured and arrested could be counted on the fingers of a few hands. Looking at the work the police
French / Germans have realized even more how the hatred that drives and informs the hand of "our", as admirably demonstrated in Genoa in 2001.
The event has been channeled into the default enclosure, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, predominantly inhabited by workers, immigrants, temporary workers, as well as many other suburbs in Europe. From the houses and windows of this corner of town a few flags of peace and even less expressions of solidarity and participation in the parade. Some strains, however, between young and sectors like banlieusards procession reluctant to accept an interlocutor that we euphemistically call "rude".
In fact, the various social fabric of this metropolis of over 450,000 inhabitants - from center to periphery - appeared largely impervious to anti-NATO mobilization.
The absolute refusal to cross the bridge of Europe, as had been agreed in the days precedenti, la divisione della città in zone off limits e l’impressionante militarizzazione del territorio hanno evidenziato nel contempo il fallimento della cosiddetta “democrazia occidentale” e la sostanziale inutilità di contro /vertici che tentano in contemporanea di imporre un altro punto di vista politico rispetto alle determinanti prestabilite dai cosiddetti “grandi della terra”.
In queste condizioni accettare la logica del recinto – come proposto da alcuni leader del forum sociale - avrebbe significato divenire parte integrante del meccanismo “democratico”, funzionali alla sua legittimazione.
Ecco allora la legittima reazione all’impedimento fisico di un esercizio elementary as to manifest. Several thousand protesters have repeatedly - and legitimately - tried to force the blocks of the police. Among the most organized they were the ones who are dismissed as "black block", youth phenomenon remains to be investigated, but that has little to do with political expression defined. A lot of tactical mobility and para military, no idea beyond that of destroying all the symbols of civilization, from phone booths and hotels.
We are not among those who tear their clothes in front of fire and devastation. Of completely different nature and weight are "surgical operations" of NATO's bombing on Afghan villages. The
problema, come sempre, è politico, ed attiene alla capacità dei futuri movimenti di rafforzare la propria presenza nel tessuto sociale delle metropoli. Se e quando le banlieu diverranno un retroterra strategico della lotta contro la guerra imperialista saremo in grado di risolvere anche la “contraddizione” black block.
La lezione di Strasburgo deve servire per affinare la riflessione sui metodi di azione nella nuova fase politica che abbiamo di fronte. Non è più tempo di contro vertici, ma di radicamento delle idee forza antimilitariste ed antimperialiste all’interno dell’impetuoso flusso di lotte che la crisi capitalistica determinerà in tutto il continente europeo e ancora più in là.
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