to acts . That individuals , alone or in a group of friends , after having taken risks during a demonstration are tempted to pursue the struggle on another terrain is not a crazy bet . This shows the importance of multiplying proposals . And then there ’ s still the question of context , because if each person has moments to act , it is also necessary to create favourable situations . That people aside from the demonstration , but who are sympathetic to what is happening , get ready to get out of their seats or leave the bar to act , that also is probable . It is meaningful that during the last wild demonstration on an evening in June , in the heart of the Parisian neighbourhood Belleville , certain groups of persons who saw the demo coming closer and identified the demonstrators as “ casseurs ” ( and there the semantic trap of the State and the journalists snaps ,,,) hesitate to join in . And that after the invasion of the neighbourhood by the cops and the spreading of tear gas in the air , small groups of youngsters start to run up and down the streets in the vicinity . There again , we are touching the question of the duration and the extent of disorder . What would happen if it were no longer possible to live by proxy ( or relive ) the revolt of the “ casseurs ” when the Internet is no longer offering more riot porn or detailed stories embellished with images , to bore or resource oneself with endless series to find the strength to return toiling the next day ? What if it were no longer possible to go back to it . Or when a localised electricity breakdown would give the decisive supplementary élan to get out of your house , to leave your work place or to more easily move through the streets because of the fleeting disorder ?
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I ’ m sure that I ’ m not wrong when I say that all comrades who will read this text have had at least some echoes of what was happening in France , that a majority amongst them gave a particular attention to it , and that some have asked themselves how they could contribute . Come to France for a particular occasion or do something where they are , two possibilities amongst others for those who decide to join in . A contribution coming from elsewhere , and that is a question that has to be addressed in many other occasions than the recent events in France , could for example happen through suggestions : we , who find ourselves in another situation , have done this or that for this or that reason , have you thought about it ? From where we are , we think that on this moment , it would be could if this or that would happen , maybe we could help you out with it ? Or : if in a certain situation as this one you would have the idea to do this or that , think about us . A contribution that stays in one ’ s context could be : me , from here , I know you are making this struggle , could I act in a way that my action has an incidence on the reality that is surrounding me and at the same time on the struggle you are waging ? The burning of an excavator of Eurovia-Vinci in Berlin , of a Axa Assurance van in Athens , the burning of vehicles of a Peugeot-Citroën dealership in Thessaloniki or the burning of the offices of Poste Italiane in Genova in solidarity with the revolted and escapees from the detention centres and with a wink to the French “ ni loi ni travail ” are some answers in act . Could we imagine other ones ? Who does not believe that sharing experiences opens the way for experimentation ?
“… breaches are made in the context of this movement . Moments of rupture . All this existed before and will exist afterwards . Let ’ s continue to look for them and try to contribute to them . But let ’ s continue in a way that when this movement will die – and it will certainly die – breaches continue to be made and ruptures continue to show up where nobody expected them . If one day , we manage to link all this together , maybe we would be facing a real possibility for subversion of this unbearable society .” - Ceci n ’ est pas une insurrection
“ Revolution is plurality , is multiplicity , is a noble emulation of different attempts , is a seismic tremor of which the centre is everywhere and which therefore has none , it is the germination of new life directly related to the aspirations and needs of its partisans , it is the convergence of thousands and thousands of activities with the common goal of transforming the economic and social structure of the world .” - L ’ Adunata dei Refrattari
Note 1 . Allusion to a post-68 song , Chacun de vous est concerné , of Dominique Grange , later on transformed by De Andrè who wrote the song La canzone del maggio .
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