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French anarchists arrested for sabotage

Anybody know anything more abut this? Some context would be nice as none of the articles i have read explains why they did it....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081111/ts_afp/francerailtransportattackarrests

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Nov 12 2008 16:25

http://static.20minutes.fr/img/photos/wag/SabotageTGV.swf

sites of sabotage

The police are connecting it it to the "anarcho-autonomist movement" and have arrested 18-20 people in dawn raids. 20 of those are still being held, the supposed leader was arrested in a 'libertarian community'. The article you linked to says it was part of a planned attack to prevent the movement of nuclear waste to Germany as does this one. I'm not entirelty convinced it looks like an attack on the network rather than the route.

I've spotted some stuff claiming that the police are using the phrase "anarcho-autonomist movement" to allow them to use anti-terror legislation against individuals by placing them within the context of an organised movement. Not sure if that is true either. It does allow them to hold the suspects for 96 hours. Police have also managed to have this time period extended according to Grenoble Indymedia whihc is also reporting that police spokesmen have stated that they have found no material proof linking those arrested directly to the sabotage.

There's been some stuff in other sources about Black Friday, but I think that's more connected to the day that they were arrested rather than the day of the attacks.

I've seen someone suggesting CNT might have incited it but that's complete crap (CNT leaflet)

Unusually French Indymedia sites seem to all be up and working, and if it was anarchists I'd expect to see an awful lot more stuff online.

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Nov 12 2008 17:16

More info through links here: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/11/101404.html
Its in french tho. Anybody from france who can explain what it says?

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Nov 12 2008 18:53

My friend was reading the press on this and found that the authorities were following the activity of these people. We were very surpised to hear as an example of their "subversive activity" that they supposedly had gone to the G8 meeting in Poland. We suppose they are referring to a meeting here a year and a half ago and suspect we may know some of the arrested but so far we have only one name. If anybody gets more names, please let me know by PM, or, if the info is public, send here.

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Nov 12 2008 19:34

Article (in Polish):
http://cia.bzzz.net/francja_policja_aresztowala_grupe_anarchistow_w_powiazaniu_z_aktami_sabotazu_kolei_tgv
In French:
http://mobile.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/11/12/les-autonomes-de-petits-groupes-sous-surveillance-particuliere_1117644_3224.html
It says that the people lived in Tarnac. That the people in the village liked these people, that the town came to life since the radicals moved there, etc. The police have no evidence only they were surveilling the radicals and saw somebody head in the direction of railway tracks. They searched the house but found nothing except a brochure which explains how to act if arrested.

Apparently they were making Ticcun magazine and took part in CPE protests.

Unionists from SUD-Rail as well as FA (French) made some protest letters against the arrests.

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Nov 12 2008 20:21

Sorry for posting something in strange languages wink but maybe someone else can read. It is an article from "Le Monde". Seems the cops have little to nothing substantiel against that "mouvance anarcho-autonome".

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/11/12/les-autonomes-de-petits-groupes-sous-surveillance-particuliere_1117644_3224.html

Les "autonomes", de petits groupes sous surveillance particulière

La garde à vue des dix personnes soupçonnées d'avoir commis des actes de malveillance contre la SNCF a été prolongée, mercredi 12 novembre. Le groupe, présenté par la ministre de l'intérieur, Michèle Alliot-Marie, comme faisant partie de "l'ultra-gauche, mouvance anarcho-autonome" avait été interpellé la veille, mardi, dans le cadre d'une enquête préliminaire ouverte par le parquet de Paris dès le mois d'avril pour association de malfaiteurs à visée terroriste (Le Monde du 12 novembre). Il reste toutefois aux enquêteurs à démontrer que ses membres sont bien impliqués dans les destructions de caténaires intervenues sur des voies ferrées, le 26 octobre puis le 8 novembre, dans quatre endroits différents. Des sabotages qui ont engendré d'importants retards pour 160 TGV. Les deux enquêtes, alors, se rejoindraient.

Pour l'heure, les perquisitions ont permis de trouver, dans la ferme de Tarnac, en Corrèze, où résidait Julien Coupat, 34 ans, présenté comme le leader du groupe, des éléments matériels susceptibles d'être utilisés pour des actions de sabotage ainsi que des documents sur le réseau ferré. Les policiers ont également la "certitude" que deux des membres du groupe se trouvaient à proximité de l'un des lieux où ont été commises les dégradations. Et pour cause : ces deux personnes faisaient l'objet d'une filature. Ceci explique, notamment, la rapidité des interpellations, 48 heures à peine après les faits. Mais alors pourquoi ne pas les avoir arrêtés sur le moment ? Depuis plusieurs mois, le groupe Coupat, ainsi que le nomme un enquêteur, était sous étroite surveillance policière. L'enquête, confiée à la sous-direction de la lutte antiterroriste (SDAT) de la police judiciaire, avait été ouverte sur la base d'indications fournies par la direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI), selon lesquelles le groupe devenait "potentiellement" dangereux. Des "connexions" avec d'autres groupes dans des pays, comme l'Allemagne, la Grande-Bretagne, ou la Grèce, auraient été établies. A plusieurs reprises, Mme Alliot-Marie avait agité la menace anarcho-autonome sur la foi de notes du renseignement.

Un livre, L'Insurrection qui vient (éd. La Fabrique) rédigé par un Comité invisible, avait particulièrement suscité l'émoi. Les auteurs, revenant sur l'expérience du mouvement anti-CPE, y expliquaient : "Tout bloquer, voilà désormais le premier réflexe de tout ce qui se dresse." "L'infrastructure technique de la métropole est vulnérable (...), écrivaient-ils. Saboter avec quelque conséquence la machine sociale implique aujourd'hui de reconquérir et réinventer les moyens d'interrompre ces réseaux. Comment rendre inutilisable une ligne de TGV, un réseau électrique ?" Ils précisaient : "Retenons du sabotage le principe suivant : un minimum de risque dans l'action, un minimum de temps, un maximum de dommages".

Dans cette "mouvance", Julien Coupat apparaît depuis plusieurs années. Issu d'une famille bourgeoise, doctorant en histoire et civilisation à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), il a abandonné ses études en 1999. Il a été membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Tiqqun, influencée par le situationnisme de Guy Debord et qui a connu un certain écho dans les milieux autonomes avant de s'autodissoudre en 2001.

A la faveur des mouvements des chômeurs de l'hiver 1997, des rassemblements contre les G8, puis de la contestation contre le CPE en 2006, les "totos" (autonomes) ont connu une petite résurgence d'activité. Impliqués dans "l'anti-carcéralisme", la lutte contre les prisons et les centres de rétention, actifs dans le mouvement des squats politiques, développant des modes de vie alternatifs en rupture avec la société de consommation, ils s'affichent anti-parti et anti-syndicat. Et fonctionnent en groupes affinitaires.

Le gouvernement tient aujourd'hui ces milieux en ligne de mire. Au mois de juin, la chancellerie avait ainsi donné des instructions pour renvoyer toutes les affaires les concernant au parquet antiterroriste de Paris. Ces derniers mois, plusieurs jeunes ont été arrêtés, en possession d'engins incendiaires ou de substances pouvant servir à la confection de petits explosifs. L'un d'entre eux, Juan, accusé d'avoir placé l'un de ces engins sous une dépanneuse de la préfecture de police en mai 2007, a fait parvenir depuis la prison de Rouen, où il se trouve en détention provisoire, une lettre ouverte diffusée sur Internet le 10 novembre. "Je crois bien avoir le profil recherché, non pas celui d'un fanatique qui veut semer la terreur (...), écrit-il, mais plutôt celui d'un révolté parmi les autres." Réfutant le terme "d'organisation terroriste à laquelle nous sommes supposés appartenir", il dénonce : "Le mot "mouvance" montre à quel point c'est flou. Il peut suffire d'un contrôle d'identité, au cours d'un moment de contestation sauvage, de la fréquentation d'un lieu ou d'une personne, d'une lecture subversive."

Isabelle Mandraud

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Nov 12 2008 20:52

Sounds like they have found materials on the farm and train timetables etc.
Two of the people can be placed close to the scene.
The article asks why people under surveillance were allowed to commit these crimes.
There's also some background, apparently the 'leader' used to be in a situationist style collective with a publication called Tiqqin

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Nov 13 2008 01:08

Tiqqun is a word with a few different meanings:
in Hebrew it means "to solidify," and
in Algonquin it means "outcast of the tribe."
an interesting group, definitely.
here's a couple good ones, apparently from some of their people:
http://theimaginaryparty.com/
http://info.interactivist.net/node/3556

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Nov 13 2008 01:11

Of course this Manraud is obviously an enemy of situationist groupings ...she talks about "situationism." But what else could we expect from a toilet paper like "Le Monde?"

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Nov 13 2008 12:08
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But what else could we expect from a toilet paper like "Le Monde?"

I think you're shooting the messenger here. As capitalist papers go, Le Monde is quite good and a useful source of information.

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Nov 13 2008 13:12

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3451962/French-anarchists-linked-to-New-York-bombing.html

The plot thickens....

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Nov 13 2008 14:12

christophe Bourseiller a journalist who wrote some books about the extreme left (as people says in France) said on the radio that there is some informations indicating that the people arrested are linked with primitivist / anti-civ groupings, that they are against technology and so on.
but about the sabotage, so far the police has nothing against them.

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Nov 13 2008 14:53

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5132089.ece

There was a review in the Times Culture section a few weeks ago of the Baader Meinhof Complex that seemed to be saying that people interested in radical politics are really just into it as radical chic and worrying about a potential return of urban guerilla groups under the economic crisis. smile

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Nov 13 2008 17:01
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a potential return of urban guerilla groups under the economic crisis.

Let's hope not. We don't want these idiots making it worse for the rest of us.

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Nov 13 2008 17:55

Nice work from the police, with a considerable help from the corporate media.

6 months ago the french intelligence service were releasing information about so-called ultra-left being on the rise and worrying about possible terrorist acts.
http://www.rue89.com/jean-yves-camus/les-rg-s%E2%80%99inquietent-du-renouveau-de-lextreme-gauche-autonome
Obviously it wasnt based on any serious or solid evidence.

So now, to make reality match their theories, they've arrested a dozen of activists, and accused them of conspiracy against the state (or something) and linked them with past terrorist acts (like the one in New York).
Except that even Le Monde has had to admit that there is no evidence showing that the people arrested have any connection with the sabotage of the railway lines.
http://archives.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/11/12/sabotages-a-la-sncf-la-police-ne-dispose-encore-d-aucune-preuve-materielle_1117833_3224.html

So this is basically scaremonging, government propaganda against 'autonomous groups' or anarchists or anything thats not a party and that they cannot clearly identify.
And this is an abuse of authority (though all authority is abuse), these people having been arrested mostly because they read 'anarchist texts' that talk about insurrection.
But hey well, it makes a good case for more police, more order, more people working 8 to 5 and less being idle living on the margin of society.
Fair enough.

Christophe Bourseiller is hardly a journalist. Hes an idiot who likes to show his face in the media and talk about guy debord or the far left cos it makes him look so radical to be knowledgeable about underground movements no one knows about.

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Nov 13 2008 22:40

leaflet on the events, as found in nantes IMC
Du sabotage considéré comme un des Beaux Arts

also:
http://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article597

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Christophe Bourseiller is hardly a journalist. Hes an idiot who likes to show his face in the media and talk about guy debord or the far left cos it makes him look so radical to be knowledgeable about underground movements no one knows about.

Remove the part about the media and you are pretty much describing every single one of us!

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Nov 14 2008 02:12

translation of the nantes imc article found at
http://situationist.gq.nu/
situationist.gq.nu/nantes.html
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The following text was written by a number of companions in the context of the arrests last November 11th. It may be distributed freely and widely in any form. In a time of "crisis," when the State is showering the capitalists with billions of dollars, it attempting once more to isolate a few "bad rebels" to better eliminate them all. We won't play this dupes' game.

On Sabotage Considered as One of the Fine Arts

You'd have to be really blind not to see sabotage as the classical weapon of the exploited. And you'd have to have a pretty short memory to forget that in every social war, many a rebel refuses to wait for everyone to move before expressing his or her anger.

From the riots of November 2005 to the CPE riots of spring 2006, from factory occupations and kidnappings of directors to the numerous acts of sabotage during the railway workers' movement of November 2007, it's clear for a lot of people that we won't have an end to our situation of misery and exploitation by begging for it.

In this prison society, we're expected to believe we're in the best of possible worlds: commodity democracy. And they try to force us to believe it with tazer shocks and ballots. The wars and the poisoning of the planet for money are nonetheless a clear reminder that capitalism is a death-dealing system and that the State is not a friend, but an enemy.

And so we must fight back, to destroy what destroys us. Struggle individually and collectively wherever we are for a world emancipated from the bonds of exploitation and domination. It is not their penal codes and morality that must dictate what we must do, but the rage and ethics of each and every one of us.

On the 11th of November, ten persons were placed under arrest during a new operation by the Ministry of Terror, and accused of sabotaging the tension wires of SNCF trains during the prior weekend. Journalist cops, politicos, and jackals came from all sides to hurriedly denounce an imaginary "anarcho-autonomist" movement. On the same pretext of "association of criminals with terrorist aims," three comrades have already been arrested, and some held for over 9 months, accused of an attempt to burn a police vehicle in Paris in May 2007, during the explosions of anger that arose to greet the last presidential election.

In a time of "crisis," when the State is showering the capitalists with billions of dollars, it attempting once more to isolate a few "bad rebels" to better eliminate them all. But it hardly matters whether they're guilty or innocent; we'll leave those categories to the robe-wearing toads and their sustainers.

Because in the same way as the passion for freedom can't be captured in an acronym, what domination most fears is a diffuse and anonymous replication of these attacks. Solidarity against State terrorism, by all means anyone considers adequate.

Let us derail the train of everyday routine.
November 12th, 2008.

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it's clear for a lot of people that we won't have an end to our situation of misery and exploitation by begging for it.

it seems clear to me that ending misery and exploitation means to replace it by another mode of production than the capitalist one, and to do that you need something else than isolated acts of individuals, and something else than collective acts that are rioting without making grow collective organisation, if it is just burning cars or schools or libraries, like in France 2005 it don't get us very far nor in a right direction.
and there were no CPE rioting in 2006, protest march, strikes, occupation of universities, etc...but no rioting.

expressing anger is ok but to replace a social mode of production by another it is not sufficient...

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Nov 14 2008 08:32

You're right, Piter, individual acts of sabotage as a supposed expression of discontent with personal life under capitalism gets the movement nowhere and should be condemned. But reading the thing from Nantes it seems that French intellectuals are already justifying the placing of obstacles on the tracks of high speed trains, as if they suspect that those arrested might have done it or as if they thought they should have been free to do it even if they didn't.
I don't know whether they did it or not, but there are certainly some nutters around. Just think of the una bomber.
I like the story of the French intellectual a hundred or so years ago who wrote articles justifing the principle of "propaganda by the deed" who a few months later was sitting in a cafe when a nutter threw a bomb into it.
Just imagine if a high speed train did hit an obstacle, how many innocent people would be killed. We shouldn't be thinking up ways to justify this but telling anybody thinking of doing this sort of thing not to do it.

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I like the story of the French intellectual a hundred or so years ago who wrote articles justifing the principle of "propaganda by the deed" who a few months later was sitting in a cafe when a nutter threw a bomb into it.
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I've been in that cafe smile
They hadn't blocked the railway, as far as I can tell, they'd used metal to short out the power cables so the trains couldn;t run.

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You're right, Piter, individual acts of sabotage as a supposed expression of discontent with personal life under capitalism gets the movement nowhere and should be condemned.

i think that's far too sweeping. we had a power cut at work the other day and nearly got to go home. one of my workmates joked we should go and give the fusebox a visit just to make sure. if someone had have done, it wouldn't be worthy of condemnation. condemn anti-social acts of 'protest' sure, i mean derailing a TGV wouldn't be a good thing even if it was mandated by a mass assembly (edit: apparently this isn't what they're even accused of). just because something is done by a minority doesn't make it wrong, but neither is it a substitute for collective action.

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They hadn't blocked the railway, as far as I can tell, they'd used metal to short out the power cables so the trains couldn;t run.

Fair enough, but I thought they were supposed to be primitists who don't want to know anything about modern technology (except, of course,computers and the internet so they can get their ideas across).

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Nov 14 2008 09:33

state slander and fit-ups are rarely internally consistent. thankfully they're really quite bad at it and don't know their enemy.

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Nov 14 2008 10:28

frankly I think speculative theoretical dispensations and denunciations in the manner of capricorn and piter are a revolting response to this news, especially when the theory's so ideological and stupid.

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Nov 14 2008 20:35

Like Si said, maybe Capricorn you should inform yourself before posting such misleading things. Speculation is not our job.

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Nov 14 2008 20:43

I wasn't criticising them but the idiots in Nantes who issued that stupid statement. Murray Bookchin got the measure of people like them

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si wrote:
frankly I think speculative theoretical dispensations and denunciations in the manner of capricorn and piter are a revolting response to this news, especially when the theory's so ideological and stupid.
raw wrote:
Like Si said, maybe Capricorn you should inform yourself before posting such misleading things. Speculation is not our job.

i think a rejection of terroristic methods is fair enough - but clearly we shouldn't take the accusations of the state seriously. we shouldn't speculate against the accused, even bourgeois law gives benefit of the doubt to the accused until proven beyond reasonable doubt. i would add that even what they're accused of isn't terroristic, just insurrectionist and substitutionist, so the knee-jerk repsonse to 'activisty' individualistic responses can be overplayed.

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The state said that some sabotage have been perpetrated against TGV (may be). The sabotage's devices where placed to short out of run the TGV but certainly not to derail it. No risk of killing accident at all.

The group arrested is not stricly anarchist (as they reject any kind of "label") even if they are clearly inspired by anarchism, insurrectionnalism, situationnism, autonomy, primitivism (anti technology ?) and consillisme. But this is too restrictive : they are their own theory.

But what is sure is that they are not involved in this State bluff ...

> even bourgeois law gives benefit of the doubt to the accused until proven beyond reasonable doubt

That is where the problem lies : it is quite "normal" that State and Medias do not respect that.
But the unions also said immediately the young guys where guilty and should be jailed !!! No surprise, the communist CGT told it. But also the so called "radical" or "rank and fill" or "alternative" union of SUD railways ... (in which Alternative Libertaire claim to have some influence ...)

Regarding the alleged links with "CNT", it is true that during the last strike in november 2007, CNT-AIT gave its support to some sabotages actions that occured during the strike (http://www.cnt-ait.info/ecrire/articles.php3?id_article=1469)

Below a communiqué issued by the CNT AIT Paris group. Since it has been written, the 9 has been convicted of terrorism while the Judge said he has not any evidence against them ... expect the fact that they refuse to say one word while interrogating by anti terrorist section. Their silence is the evidence ...

LE COUP DE TARNAC

Dix personnes ont été interpellées mardi 11 novembre matin à Tarnac en Corrèze, à Paris, à Rouen et à Baccarat lors d’une opération baptisée « Taïga » qui a mobilisé 150 policiers. Neuf sont en garde à vue dans les locaux de la direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI) à Levallois, la dixième, mère d’une des gardées à vue, est en garde à vue à Nancy. Il leur est reproché d’appartenir à « l’ultra-gauche tendance anarcho-autonome » et d’être lié à une série de cinq sabotages de caténaires SNCF dans l’Oise, l’Yonne, la Seine-et-Marne et la Moselle. Un sixième cas de sabotage près de Narbonne a été évoqué puis écarté parce que de conception différente des premiers. Sous les coups de la législation anti-terroriste, cette garde à vue, a été reconduite quatre journées consécutives, durant 96 heures. Les suspects devront être ensuite, soit présentés à un magistrat anti-terroriste, soit remis en liberté sans charges.

D’après la ministre de l’intérieur Michèle Alliot-Marie et les services de police qui les espionnaient depuis des mois à la manière du KGB des films américains, les dix inculpés auraient été aperçus « a proximité des lieux » où les sabotages ont été commis « à des heures pouvant correspondre » mais les policiers n’ont cependant pas constaté qu’ils avaient mis en place un dispositif de sabotage et n’ont rien remarqué d’anormal sur le coup. En outre, la ministre affirme que « les perquisitions ont permis de recueillir beaucoup de documents très intéressants » et reproche à ces individus de se caractériser par « le rejet de toute expression politique démocratique et un discours extrêmement violent ». Ces maigres éléments, a priori tout à fait insuffisants pour engager de quelconques poursuites judiciaires, ont cependant suffit au ministère de l’intérieur pour prendre leurs fantasmes « d’une résurgence violente de l’extrémisme radical » pour une réalité et enclencher une vaste opération policière spectaculaire à grands retentissements médiatiques.

Alors que les policiers du renseignement intérieur et de la sous-direction anti-terroriste ne disposent pas pour l’instant de preuves, la présumée innocence des « présumés auteurs » a été piétinée en long, en large et en travers par le gouvernement, les médias mais aussi les syndicats et la LCR. Dès le début des opérations, le président Nicolas Sarkozy s’est aussitôt félicité des « progrès rapides et prometteurs obtenus dans le cadre de l’enquête » par cette « opération éclair » des services de police.

Les médias ont immédiatement emboîté le pas et relayé les théories fantasmagoriques du ministère de l’intérieur sans aucun travail d’enquête complémentaire ni émettre le moindre doute sur le bien fondé des accusations. Enfin, les syndicats des cheminots se sont publiquement et abondamment réjouis d’être si vite mis hors de cause parce qu’aucun employé de la SNCF n’a été arrêté. Le leader de la LCR, Olivier Besancenot, s’empresse de condamner des actes de sabotage qui ne « sont pas et ne seront jamais » ceux de la LCR. Pour Sud-Rail, il s’agit d’actes terroristes et le syndicat met en garde « ceux qui frisent la diffamation en voulant confondre terrorisme et action syndicale ». Bref, le bouc-émissaire que l’imaginaire douteux du ministère de l’intérieur a baptisé « ultra-gauche tendance anarcho-autonome » arrange tout le monde, excepté les quelques 350 habitants de Tarnac qui font bloc pour soutenir leurs épiciers et leur président du comité des fêtes.

Quand le spectre du terrorisme et son effet de vent glacial sera passé et apparaîtra pour ce qu’il est, une manipulation médiatique, il sera intéressant de mettre tous ces sbires hypocrites des syndicats soi disant radicaux et des partis soi disant révolutionnaires face à leurs discours parfois plus accusateurs encore que celui de la police, où ils se réjouissent sans détours de l’arrestation d’innocents, seulement coupables de ne pas avoir acheter la carte de leurs sectes, accusés de sabotages sans aucun éléments à charge et de terrorisme pour des actes qui n’ont pas encore été commis mais qui auraient pu l’être selon ces paranoïaques. Ils se sont tous empressés de condamner de façon définitive les 10 individus, se montrant ainsi encore plus expéditif que la justice de Sarkozy qui n’a pas encore rendu son verdict. A écouter tous ces charlatans professionnels du syndicalisme, il faudrait croire que le sabotage n’a jamais appartenu à leur histoire !

Pourtant, le secrétaire adjoint de la CGT de 1901 à 1908, un certain Émile Pouget, loin de condamner les saboteurs de la machine, n’avait pas peur, lui, de saluer leurs actes et de les préconiser comme outil pour les luttes syndicales. A cette époque, où le droit de grève était piétiné par les patrons et les gouvernements, où les manifestations des travailleurs étaient réprimées dans le sang comme à Chicago ou à Fourmies, le sabotage apparaissait alors comme la solution, le moyen de lutte le plus efficace pour protester contre des conditions de travail inacceptables et revendiquer la journée de huit heures sans se faire fusiller. (on pourra télécharger une réédition de sa brochure ici : http://www.cntaittoulouse.lautre.ne...)

Aujourd’hui encore, le droit de grève est attaqué de tout côté : il y a la pression de l’état avec le service minimum, la pression de l’employeur avec la précarisation de l’emploi et le chantage au licenciement, il y a aussi tous les chômeurs qui n’ont pas la possibilité de faire grève. On ne peut pas compter sur les syndicats pour le défendre, trop préoccupés qu’ils sont à négocier leur part du gâteau avec le Pouvoir.

Dans de telles circonstances, une résurgence et une prolifération des actes de sabotage est plus que prévisible, c’est une certitude logique et ce ne sont pas les discours complètement à côté de la plaque des syndicats, partis et autres imposteurs qui y changeront quoi que ce soit.

Le sabotage reste un outil à la disposition des travailleurs pour mettre en œuvre leur imagination combative dans le dessein de justes revendications.

L’état et le patronat ont réduit à la portion congrue le droit de grève et les possibilités des travailleurs d’y recourir mais ce n’est pas là une invention moderne. Dans le passé, face à cette situation, les travailleurs se sont fait saboteurs et ce n’est pas en les traitant de terroristes qu’on arrêtera leur œuvre.

Pour la Révolution sociale,

Vers le Communisme Libertaire !

CNT AIT (Syndicat Interco Paris Nord)

http://cnt-ait.info contact@cnt-ait.info

(Forum de la CNT AIT de Caen : http://cnt.ait.caen.free.fr/forum)

Lire aussi le communiqué des compagnons de Rouen :

AFFAIRE SNCF OU L’EMBALLAGE MEDIATIQUE

http://cntaitrouen.blogspot.com/

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Nov 16 2008 00:51

Ils n'aiment pas trop qu'on coupe et colle des longs textes, et de plus c'est en francais. Je vais le traduire demain si j'ai le temps.

I'll have a look at that text tomorrow if I get a chance and post a summary/translation.

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Nov 16 2008 00:59
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Unionists from SUD-Rail as well as FA (French) made some protest letters against the arrests.

Sorry Laure but regarding SUD it is EXACTELY the contrary !

SUD leader said their satisfaction that those terrorist have been arrested and jailed !!!

And regarding the FA it is true they issued a protest letter against the arrests, but assuming that the young were more or less guilty of being an "avant garde" practicing terrorism ...