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Here's some information for some and wood for the fire for others.

INTERNATIONAL SYNDICALIST CONFERENCE organised by CNT-F
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos00630.html
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos00634.html

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syndicalist wrote:
Here's some information for some and wood for the fire for others.

what wood? I mean, even if some groups and individuals would be hostile to the syndicalist and anarchist groups taking part to this conference, i would be suprised if people would be upset that these A-S/syndicalist and anarchist groups actually organise conferences grin

Looks interesting though, will be interesting to see the participant list closer to the time.

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links dont work for me

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links dont work for me

Try this:
http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/newswire/display/5451/index.php

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It will be interesting because the report the IWA secretariat has made sas that the formation of a new international will be on the agenda.

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It will be interesting because the report the IWA secretariat has made sas that the formation of a new international will be on the agenda.

If you look at the rough agenda posted on www.anarchosyndicalism.net the issue of the formation of a new international doesn't come up. Perhaps things will be clearer closer to the event?

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Yeah i know, i read an article on the expulsion of the CNTF on its site and it says that at previous i-O's
there was a discussion creating a new international.Do you think they will establish a new international if the FAU are no longer inside the IWA next year?

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WeTheYouth wrote:
It will be interesting because the report the IWA secretariat has made sas that the formation of a new international will be on the agenda.

If you look at the rough agenda posted on www.anarchosyndicalism.net the issue of the formation of a new international doesn't come up. Perhaps things will be clearer closer to the event?

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Well hopefully the FAU (and USI)will still be inside the IWA next year. If that is the case it would be good to see some IWA representation at I 07. We should at least be able to discuss and debate ideas even if there are some important differences between the IWA and groups such as SAC and others involved in I 07.

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dublin dave wrote:
Well hopefully the FAU (and USI)will still be inside the IWA next year. If that is the case it would be good to see some IWA representation at I 07. We should at least be able to discuss and debate ideas even if there are some important differences between the IWA and groups such as SAC and others involved in I 07.

Definately. More dialogue between IWA and other groups can only be good.

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Here's the call in French.
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CONFERENCES INTERNATIONALES SYNDICALES : I 07
RIEN POUR NOUS ? TOUT POUR TOUS !
A l’heure où nous assistons à l’échelle européenne et mondiale à la destruction des acquis sociaux par la dérégulation des systèmes de sécurité sociale, par les attaques contre les droits des salarié(e)s, par les soit disantes « réformes » du Code du travail, du marché du travail et de conventions collectives, par la menace d’une insécurité sociale globalisée (privatisations, mise en concurrence des travailleur(se)s, extension de nouvelles formes de contrats de travail, augmentation du travail sans droits, sans papiers, sans salaires …
Nous constatons l’omniprésence d’un projet de société où la maximalisation des profits de quelques privilégié(e)s et la soumission du plus grand nombre ne font qu’augmenter l’exploitation et la pauvreté du monde entier.

En outre, « il y a encore et toujours des millions d’êtres humains en migration sur cette planète, à la recherche d’un revenu et d’une vie meilleure. Le nombre d’entres eux va croissant. Ils font l’expérience brutale que la promesse du bien être capitaliste n’était qu’une façade » (Déclaration programmatique de la Conférence Internationale d’Essen, I 02).

La mondialisation n’est rien de nouveau pour le capitalisme. Mais la mobilité, l’agressivité et la capacité de ce système n’ont jamais été aussi fortes qu’aujourd’hui. Fermer des entreprises rentables avec des conditions relativement avancées pour les travailleur(se)s dans un pays et rouvrir ces mêmes entreprises ailleurs, avec des salaires plus bas et des conditions plus mauvaises pour augmenter les bénéfices des actionnaires, cela n’a, hélas, rien d’étonnant de nos jours.

Que faire ?
A l’opposé, le mouvement ouvrier et ses organisations semblent aussi peu organisés dans leur coordination entre pays et dans la riposte collective qu’au moment de la création de la 1ère Internationale. Ils se révèlent incapables de répondre concrètement, de réagir rapidement et globalement aux attaques massives du Capital.
Tant le syndicalisme européen que mondial manque d’échanges d’expériences, manque d’entraide et de solidarité dans les faits.

Le monde syndical bureaucratique, le syndicalisme de système (CES, CSI), cogestionnaire, courroie de transmission d’intérêts politiques, ne veut pas s’opposer à ces attaques du capitalisme triomphant. Ceci, l’entraîne, de plus en plus, en contradiction avec le syndicalisme de lutte de classe, qui lui n’est pas inexistant, mais faible, d’apparition éphémère et désorganisé.

Pour donner une suite aux Conférences industrielles de San Francisco en 1999 ( I 99) et d’Essen en 2002 (I 02), la CNT française prend l’initiative de lancer cette invitation à toutes les organisations, groupes, réseaux et militant(e)s qui ont participé aux Conférences précédentes, ainsi qu’à tous les nouveaux intéressés.

Construire la solidarité internationale
Cette nouvelle Conférence aura lieu à Paris les samedi 28, dimanche 29, lundi 30 avril 2007 et mardi 1er Mai 2007.
Quel intérêt de se rencontrer dans un cadre international pour les Anarcho-syndicalistes (AS), pour les Syndicalistes Révolutionnaires (SR), autogestionnaires et unionistes ?

Dans une telle conférence, ce qui se passe « où et comment », ne devrait être qu’une introduction au débat, avec des exemples concrets venant de la pratique et des luttes de chacun.

Le but immédiat des échanges serait : Que sommes nous en mesure de faire concrètement ensemble ? La finalité à plus long terme, et notre espoir, serait de commencer à renouer les liens et de faire l’union entre les travailleur (se)s de différents pays, de se réapproprier les outils d’information, de lutte et d’action par l’organisation de la solidarité international.

TOUS ET TOUTES A PARIS POUR LA CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE SYNDICALE : I 07

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PRE PROGRAMME DE I 07
Vendredi 27 avril 2007 :
Accueil des délégations
Samedi 28 avril :
Matin :
Rencontres Syndicales (vie chère, salaires, délocalisations, licenciements, privatisation, droits du travail, Institutions / syndicalisme révolutionnaire, répression syndicale, Union Européenne …
Après midi :
Rencontres de branche : Bâtiment, éducation, Poste, Santé, nettoyage, culture, presse, transport, métallurgie, travailleur(se)s de la Terre, …

Soir :
Concert

Dimanche 29 avril :
Matin : Rencontres thématiques : luttes des Femmes, antifascisme, écologie sociale, logement, migrations, anti – impérialisme …
Après midi :
Synthèse des différentes rencontres

Soir :
Grand meeting international

Lundi 30 avril :
Après midi :
Diffusion de films militants / visite guidée de Paris
Mardi 1er Mai 2007 :
Après midi :
Manif internationale
Soir :
Concert

http://www.cnt-f.org

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I'm currently a member of the education syndicat of the FAU Berlin, I haven't been to a meeting in the last month due to other commitments and won't be at another one until 2 weeks time. It was mentioned about a month and a half ago and I think some people will be going. I can find out more. I'm also interested in going, but it's still a good bit away.

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I'm currently a member of the education syndicat of the FAU Berlin

thanks for your starbucks workers union solidarity!

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hmmm might head to this actually, wondering if anyone from the outsourced IT sector will be there, might find out some useful shit.

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syndicalist wrote:
Here's some information for some and wood for the fire for others.

INTERNATIONAL SYNDICALIST CONFERENCE organised by CNT-F
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos00630.html
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos00634.html

The above links seem not to work anymore.
The original call in french can be viewed at:
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=4365

Here's the english text i(in full):

I07 NOTHING FOR US ? EVERYTHING FOR ALL !
At a time when we assist to a European and global destruction of social
advantages by deregulation of social welfare attacking workers rights
through the so-called reforms of labour rights, labour market, by the
constant and global social insecurity (privatisation, workers
competition^^, extention of new work contracts, augmentation of work with
no rights, undocumented workers, unwaged...)
We observe the omnipresence of a project of neoliberalism where rising
profits of a few and submitting the greatest number to even more
exploitation and poverty all over the world.

Despite this “At the beginning of the 21st Century, there are still or
once again- millions of people on the move all around the globe searching
for a living wage and a better life. More and more people are again
experiencing that the capitalist promise of wealth and prosperity is
nothing but a gaudy facade behind which our lives are increasingly
consumed by deteriorating conditions (in The Struggle for a Better Life
Must Be Made Global, I02 Conference in Essen).

Globalisation is nothing new to capitalism. But mobility, aggressivity and
the capacity of this system have never been so strong as they are today.
Closing profitable factories where workers have acceptable working
conditions only to open the same factory somewhere else with lower wages
and worse working conditions only to rise benefits for stock holders is
unfortunately not surprising these days.
What can be done?

On the other side of it, the working class movement and its organisations
seem as little organised in its coordination between countries and its
collective retaliation as it was at the creation of the 1st International.
They reveal themselves to be incapable of concretely answer and react
quickly and globally to the massive assaults of capitalism.

The bureaucratic trade unionist world, social partnership, hand in hand
with political interests refuses to oppose these attacks from triomphant
capitalism. This brings more and more conflicts with class struggle
syndicalism which is not non existant but weak with bleak and disorganised
appearances.

Followinig the industrial Conferences of San Francisco in 1999 ( I 99) and
Essen in 2002 (I 02), the french CNT takes the initiative to invite all
those organisations, groups, networks and activists who participated in
the previous Conferences, as well as other interested.

Building international solidarity

This new Conference will take place in Paris on Saturday 28th, Sunday
29th, Monday 30th of april and Tuesday 1st May 2007.

What is the point for Anarcho-syndicalists and Revolutionary Syndicalists
and all those for a workers controlled world to meet at an international
level?

In such a Conference, what's happening ( where and how) shall only be an
introduction to debate with concrete examples from the practice and
struggle from each of us.

The immediate goal should be: what are we concretely capable of doing
together?

Our ultimate goal and our hope should be starting to rebuild the links and
unite workers of different countries, to reappropriate the mean of
information, struggle and action through organising international
solidarity.

ALL IN PARIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICALIST CONFERENCE: I 07

PRE PROGRAM

Friday 27th april 2007: reception of the delegations

Satursday 28th april 2007:

Morning:

Unions meetings ( expensive life cost, wages, delocalisations,
redundancies, privatisation, labour rights, institutions/revolutionary
syndicalism, repression, the EU...

Afternoon:

Branch meetings: building, education, postal service, health, cleaning,
culture, press, transport, steel industry, land workers,...

Evening: Concert

Sunday 29th april:

Morning: meetings by themes: women's struggle, antifascism, social
ecology, housing, migrations, anti imperialism,...

Afternoon: Synthese of the different meetings

Evening: Great international meeting

Monday 30th april:

Afternoon: Showing of militant movies/ visit of Paris

Tuesday 1st May 2007:

Afternoon: international demonstration

Evening: Concert

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What's happenin everyone? I recently found out about this conference and I just so happen to be planning a trip to Europe this Spring. I have been looking online, and this is the first discussion I have found, in english, on the conference...so I signed up.

It all sounds very exciting, I really hope I can attend. So will it be strictly in French? Does anyone have more details on it? Anyone on here an organizer?

Let me know...

Eric, Los Angeles, CA, US

PS the anarcho syndicalist page isn't coming up for me...?

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revol68, let's see us at I07.
We'll ask to add an IT branch meeting like we had at the I02 in Essen. Outsourcing, offshoring and so on can be part of it or we can meet as a sub group as outsourced IT sector.

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@Eric LA,

if the meeting would be strictly in French they could meet alone wink. English will shure be the language for all the international comrades because the most of us don't speak or understand french.

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CNT has made a webpage about the conference at http://www.cnt-f.org/spip.php?rubrique34 (but unfortunately, so far, it's only in French).

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made a facebook group for anyone who is going

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2240177192

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Felix Frost wrote:
CNT has made a webpage about the conference at http://www.cnt-f.org/spip.php?rubrique34 (but unfortunately, so far, it's only in French).

Its now in english =D http://www.cnt-f.org/spip.php?article233

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There will be translations in english, german, spanish and russian so far, greek is a possibility I believe (modern one hey, not ancient)

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CNT Paris wrote:
I07 REGISTRATION : DEADLINE IS APRIL 10th

Dear Comrades,

Please, help us to organize i07 !
We need you to register i07 in order to organize the housing for you. Fill the following form accordingly to the instruction before April 10th.

If you register before april 10th, and if you need it, the comrades from the french CNT will welcome you at their home during your stay in Paris.

How does it work :

* visit this link : http://www.redblack.org/registration/registration.php
* Put you first name, last name and email ! We'll keep any data collected during the registration confidential and we'll delete these after i07.
* Syndicate : if you travel with comrades of your syndicate/organization/group, please indicate the name of the organization, this will help us to dispatch you.
* For the housing, we distinguish 2 states :
o No housing : if you already have housing in Paris provided by friends, relative, comrades or if you have enough money to pay an hostel.
o Needs housing : if you would like CNT comrade to host you.
* Arrival dates/departure date : in the form of dd/mm/yy (for instance 27/04/07)
* Language spoken will also help.

See you soon in Paris !

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The program for the conference can now be downloaded from http://www.cnt-f.org/propagande/divers/i07/i07progeng.pdf

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Felix Frost wrote:
The program for the conference can now be downloaded from http://www.cnt-f.org/propagande/divers/i07/i07progeng.pdf

Cheers for the link. The programme looks good and there is a very diverse and interesting range of syndicalist groups attending.

At the risk of being controversial, is it only me who thinks it is a real shame that the IWA-AIT is not attending? Yes there is a history of bad relations with the SAC,CGT and CNT-F etc but surely IWA groups should be attending, engaging in dialogue, discusing differences/tactics and building links for future struggles?

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Yeah, even though theres disagreement, and some important disagreement, the IWA-AIT should really be attending this and engaging in discussion and debate. And thats speaking as a 'member' of Organise's secret pro-IWA-AIT faction.

btw dublin dave could you get a report to Organise! as none of us are, regretably, getting over afterall.

Cheers;

boul

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Boulcolonialboy wrote:
Yeah, even though theres disagreement, and some important disagreement, the IWA-AIT should really be attending this and engaging in discussion and debate. And thats speaking as a 'member' of Organise's secret pro-IWA-AIT faction.

btw dublin dave could you get a report to Organise! as none of us are, regretably, getting over afterall.

Cheers;

boul

Hi boul,
pm me an e-mail address and I'll send you a report and some photos.
Respect,
Dave.

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What is going on in France?
We got here in Germany the information, that the CNT-F declares the i07 to a conference of only their own international contacts. This has nothing to do with the ideas and aims of the meetings in San Francisco and Essen.

The following letter we got from the IWW comrades from Cologne about the CSR (Courant syndicaliste
revolutionaire / Revolutionäre Syndikalistische Strömung) (http://www.syndicaliste.fr/ ).

> > The CNT-F have refused a request by the CSR to participate and say
> > that this I- 07 meeting is not open for French organisations. They say local
> > associations can invite others but have declared the CSR is not invited, despite
> > being a revolutionary syndicalist organisation. This is a lot different to
> > the I-02 meeting in Essen which I attended. That was hosted by the FAU but was
> > also open to other German groups like Wildcat and also some autonomous German
> > workers attended. I will enclose the correspondence below.
> >
> > The IWW in my opinion benefits from maintaining good relations with
> > both the CNT-F and CSR and if we can act as a catalyst for bringing folks
> > together then that is good. It seems desirable that CSR be there so not only the
> > IWW but other groups can exchange industry contacts and improve our
> > international coordination. For example the session on steel industry and car
> > making is being organised by a CNT_F Education Local whereas there is a CSR member
> > who is the rep for East France for CGT steelworkers pole. These are the contacts
> > that need to be made.

> > Solidarity,
>>Die Wobblies - Industrial Workers of the World
>>Kämpfende Gewerkschaft seit 1905. Jetzt auch in Köln
>>http://www.wobblies.de

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Listen, I was treasurer for the I99 conference and I also went to I02 in essen, knowing very well the organisers in Bonn.
In 1999 ( actually it was more mate 1998) we did not know where to draw the line on who we should invite or not. We started with a budget of $0 and only a network of comrades and friends. it was a time when we thought we could do some kind of mediation between the IWA "side" and the "vignoles" side. Obviously we failed. We invited whoever, even an ex CIA guy ( who talk about crack in LA, fascinating). Basicly we had no plan and did not pretend to have one.
Then in Essen, it was up to the organisers to organise it the way they wanted ( please remember we are not an International and objectively, an International is not possible, outside of the IWA, of course and I am not cynical here, I'm just being honest)
For I07, the problem is different. The thing which remains the same is that us, the CNT ( "Vignoles") are organising it with our contacts the same way I99 and I02 was organised and there are not the same contacts.
It is different because the CSR are members of unions like the CGT and that we don't invite the CGT. The CSR is a current of like minded people who are in various unions ( I meant by that reformist unions) who are trying to reform those unions just like the WSM is doing ( although the WSM is a political organisation so it is a logical tactic and I have no problem with the WSM doing that although these are not my tactics but at least they make sense from their point of view).
SO what, the CSR are roughly 20 persons in France who try to bring revolutionary syndicalist ideas within reformist unions ( yes, Rata, we are reformist too, I know), ok, why not but they do not want to organise a revolutionary syndicalist organisation, they don't want to re join us ( because they are a split from the 90's) because we are apparently controlled by the Anarchist Federation ( err, usually people in the Federation Anarchiste are more often in Force Ouvrière but whatever) and because we are too political ( i.e too anarchist, yes Rata, can you believe that???).
The IWW can maintain good relaions with whoever and keep good relations with us. Now, we are not asking the IWW to make a choice but we made ours and it was democratically taken, all syndicates are well awared of this. But you will never be a catalyst, sorry. Your " comrade" in the steel industry can do nothing for you nor for us because he in organised in a stalinist union (CGT-F) which will never do a thing for you. Do you really think that one CSR or even 20 will ever change the face of the french CGT? Do you think it is useful? Do you think that there is a point? And why don't you become one big organisation why the WSA??
Why we can't invite Solidaires ( the regrouping of all SUDs because they are various federations but not regrouped as one big confederation) because they organise the Special Branch and because they participated in suppressing our rights in the postal services. And we did so even if other internatinal organisations were not too happy about this.

The main idea of this conference is also for you to meet us.
And to be honest, we are used to be hated. So come over and pay a visit to the atrocious reformist and autoritarian french CNT ( "Vignoles") and we'll talk about those things. Actually a meeting is organised around that very question so I can't see why it should be polemical before hand.

To finish with, the CSR are strongly against politics whether they are marxists or anarchists. They pretended that we refused our comrades to be part of a political organisation/group/network/philosophy. This is very wrong, we have every shades from black to red and we have the same statutes than the IWW on that.

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My thought is that it is up to the organizers of the event as to whom to invite. If it is designed for present-day revolutionary unions (versus revolutionary unionists), then it wouldn't make sense to invite the CSR as an entity. If the goal is to foster more industrial contacts amongst revolutionary unionists, then I think it would make sense to invite them (I do not know that much about the past history with CSR and CNT, though I thought they were not a "split" and in fact, maintained good relations) If I'm not mistaken, the CSR does seem interested in ultimately building revolutionary and truly international industrial unions. I've tried to understand their work within reformist unions, and have had some diffuculty due to language and terminology. Someone might want to get in touch with one of the CSR members who posted here fairly recently for further explanation.

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I believe it is more complex than present day rev. unions meeting vs. pollitical groupings that have syndicalist pollitics.....networking with other like-minded groups and unions.....It was meant to be a space for a wide range of revolutionary unionists to debate, engage in conversation, network, share information, pollitics, etc. By excluding the CSR they are going against some (i guess un-written) requirement for hosting a I07.

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Thanks pghwob. That's good to hear that you did try to understand the whole CSR thing along with how things work in France and yes, it is complicated and hard to translate ( there are no dictionary with this thematic).
It is up to us to invite or not organisations. But it is open to individuals, I mean we did poster in the streets that means it is open to the public. The CSR are not a revolutionary syndicalist union/organisation but a reflection group on syndicalism. All of their members are in unions ( from scab unions to SUD) but I already explained their tactics. And those unions are NOT invited for fuck sake!
We believe in OBU. I don't think they do. I mean not their theory ( I know what is the story between them and the IWW) but in practice.
That is why I said we have leave some space and time during I07 for us all to discuss that.

But you know what, it starts to make me tired. Anything we, the french CNT, are doing whatever, the whole anarcho syndicalist world gossips, deforms reality. But to be honest we are not forcing anyone to come over and if you tickets are already paid, that's ok, you still can come and enjoy Paris. You don't have to come and see us. I am not afraid of black mail. We have extremely strong contacts in Africa and in Asia so I don't really care about moaning western folks who give us lessons about " purity of the ideology". People who judge us before even asking us to explain ourselves have no lesson to give us.
And you know what? No one like us... and we don't care