[Gilet Jaunes / 17 Novembre / Soutien International / Anglais] The French anarcho-syndicalists of CNT-AIT (F) (French section of the International Workers Association) in Toulouse participated on November 24 in a day of protest, organized by the movement of « yellow vests », which opposes the increase in fuel prices and the high cost of living in […]
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CNT-AIT texts in english
This is no time to retreat / What we are not being told about French pensions
Text by French anarcho-syndicalists CNT-AIT arguing for a continuation of the struggle against pension reforms despite the law being passed by the Senate. The current popularity of the movement exceeds strict pension reform: everyone knows that it is one more attack more against our lives and, all combined with glaring inequality (the rich, bankers and […]
EVERYWHERE AS WELL AS IN TEHERAN : AGAINST the UNLAWFUL POWER, SOCIAL REVOLUTION ! [2009]
First publication online : monday 29 juin 2009 The dominant ideology, that is of the Power, want us to believe by force that electoral democracy would be the highest expression of popular sovereignty, that elections would give the Power its legitimacy. However, the Iranians have just made this lie burst. The Iranian elections, such as […]
IF YOU SOW MISERY, YOU WILL REAP ANGER !
Friday 4 November 2005 Yes, life in the popular suburbs are full of daily violence: The violence of being refused a job even though you have all of the necessary diplomas, because of what your face looks like; The violence of having to take one temporary job after another, slave labour paid with crumbs; The […]
REPRESENTATION AND VISIBILITY
Monday 13 June 2005 Often, in order to attain some visibility, a libertarian organization or its members must struggle to be represented accurately when confiding in journalists. Certainly, anarcho-syndicalists are not hiding underground. We are not trying to infiltrate other groups by misrepresenting our ideas, but how do we represent ourselves and get some accurate […]
International McStrike leaflet, 2002
International leaflet produced for the attempt at a strike at McDonalds, 16 October 2002. Only fighting will win! Today is the date of the first ever co-ordinated international mobilisation by the McDonalds workforce. Today is the day that we say ‘enough is enough’ to exploitation and low wages. Today is the day that we throw […]
WHY ANARCHOSYNDICALISTS OPPOSE TO PROFESSIONAL ELECTIONS ?
Saturday 1 December 2001 CASE STUDY – FRANCE In France, all workplaces with more than 50 employees elect représentatives to Works Councils. Those workplaces with less than 50 workers elect staff representatives, who meet with management once a month, to undertake the same role as Works Councils. The French unions are small by northern European […]
GODS AND DOLLARS (SEPTEMBER 11, 2001)
Armed with gods and dollars, puffed up with arrogance for some, consumed with ambition for others, two megalomaniac clans clash with large armfuls of anonymous humans. Some kill on a daily basis with air raids, organized looting of the planet, murderous blockades: 300,000 dead in the former Yugoslavia under the NATO bombs, 200,000 dead from […]
Liu Shipei – On Equal Human Ability
sabato 5a aŭgusto 2006 Liu Shipei (Shen Shu) was a Chinese classical scholar who, with his wife, He Zhen, established the Society for the Study of Socialism in Tokyo in 1907. The Society published a journal called Natural Justice which promoted an agrarian kind of anarchism. He Zhen, an anarchist feminist, was the more radical […]