tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post7304347763939972816..comments2024-03-12T02:18:53.121-07:00Comments on Molly'sBlog: mollymewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-30617347671455543702007-08-11T02:46:00.000-07:002007-08-11T02:46:00.000-07:00Hello,It is funny to be treated as "purist" ... It...Hello,<BR/><BR/>It is funny to be treated as "purist" ... It has a little tast of sectarianism i think. But no, you have the full right to flame us using such words, while when we make critics based by political arguments it is "outrageous attacks" ...<BR/><BR/>AIT sections follows their own path. We didn't choose the integration into the system. We still refuse any compromise with the system. It is your full right to criticize it, but why using caricatures and flames ? I rather would like to see any political arguments in your speech. I hardly can see one ... <BR/><BR/>Because your main argument is the figures. I a m not sure this is good start: remember the Staline words about the Vatican, to make is weakness : "how many divisions". Today there is still a Pope, while USSR as collapsed ...<BR/><BR/>Regarding France, of course Vignoles are more numerous than CNT AIT. While we count on 100-200 militants, they have (official figures, check anywhere) 1200. It is not so much and really it is very very far from being a mass union. And purism should be something contagious as we created new unions recently :-)<BR/><BR/>Another thing : why continuing to say that Vignoles are anarchosyndiclaist while even themselves claim everywhere they are NOT anarchist and praise people and medias to stop to talk about "the anarchist of CNT" ? They define themselves as revolutionnary unionist, so please respect their will.<BR/><BR/>Now you talk about reunification. But whith whom and what for ? Do you thinhk that in the US IWW has to reunify with AFL-CIO ? Do you think that in england SF has to reunify with TUC ? It is a non-sense. We don't share ANYTHING with them, nor ideologically spoeaking not practically (just ask almost any vignoles member about it. They have the same opinion than us). Just for instance, anarchosyndicalism is an ANTIpolitic statement. It means that anarcosyndicalists fight against the political parties and attack them as ennemies of the working class. (while Revolutionnary unionist are "neutral" and recognize the political parties to have a positive role in the working class emancipation). So Vignoles are acting together with political parties (as the communist parties), attending their rallies, making common actions with them and so on, while we denounce those parties. How can you be reunified in those conditions ? <BR/><BR/>Now it is true that we works with some frineds or unions in Vingoles. But we work on anarchist basis. We praise for reunification, on anarchist ground. It seems logical, ,no ?<BR/><BR/>Another thing about the differences in concepts : Vingoles push for the creation of unions, using elections in that purpose (with not a such big success but this is another part of the discussion : the balance of their strategy from a revolutionnary perspective). By our side, on the contrary, we push for the creation of Workers Comitees (or workers conucils), and for the autonomous action of the workers by themselves, without anyleadership, including syndicalist leadership. We are on opposite side of the struggle. And what is encouraging us is that the latests workplace struggles in France, at the least the more radicals, where structures in the way we push for (last exemple : airbus wildcat strikes in Toulouse. Surprisingly, a city where we have one of our major union ...)<BR/><BR/>And to finish, you are right, french CNT AIT we are purist sectarian dogmatic and we don't do any practical job but only theoritical. Of course. We are the devil. Perfectly. That is why i invite everyone really interested to know about to check by himself on our website http://cnt-ait.info. (May be Molly you would have some deception about the image you have of us ... :-) )<BR/><BR/>You may think we are irelevant. But i ask : are the reformist unions betters in that sense ? Are they relevant for workers ? <BR/><BR/>And about "coming back to reality" : this is the eternal claim of those that have abandonned any revolutionary hope, that dismissed, and would like those who are still continuing the figth to get down the arms.What you mean by "return to reality" is in fact "accept the system as it is and the fact that you will never change it" (what chomsky is calling "expending the cage"). We know we are in a cage, but we will not surrender, my dear ! This is what we call resistance ... It is a question of human dignity !<BR/><BR/>In solidarity<BR/><BR/>contact@cnt-ait.infoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-47433516716326262112007-01-31T20:29:00.000-08:002007-01-31T20:29:00.000-08:00I agree totally, and I'll never lose an opportunit...I agree totally, and I'll never lose an opportunity to argue for reunification, particularily as my idea of an "opening to the right" in syndicalism has to be- I think- balanced by more intransigent people WITHIN the syndicalist movement, not outside it in sects. That's Molly, "centrist" to the core.<br /> Also, the AIT is approaching the point where "stupid" fades into "ridiculous and silly", a matter for comedic routines rather than disagreement. Once they cross that border entirely they will be free floating in an universe of their own, happy in their superiority but much more irrelevant to the real world than they are today. There will be no more "Mercadonas" in that world.<br /> Many other organizations, political(anarchist and otherwise) and otherwise have "crossed that great divide" in the past. None have ever returned to reality. I hope that the AIT can avoid this fate.<br />Mollymollymewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-9112837974919901972007-01-29T12:02:00.000-08:002007-01-29T12:02:00.000-08:00Sectarianism is sooo pathetic. Inspite of the AIT'...Sectarianism is sooo pathetic. Inspite of the AIT's stupidities syndicalism has been growing quite rapidly. Imagine how much greater the result were they all working together.Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.com