Tuesday Number 2

Anticapitalistes et écologistes ! Anticapitalist and ecologist ! Anticapitalistas y ecologistas ! Anticapitalista e ecologista ! Green capitalism apparently causing no harm to the planet. After hiding, then denying it, capitalists finally have no This shows the capitalist class’s hypocrisy in dealing with choice but to accept reality : global warming is caused by the ecological crisis : we must make efforts, but we musn’t Tuesday human activity. But they then claim that everyone must do anything that threatens how the system works. This is bear equal responsability in solving this problem. Thus the consequence of a system in constant thirst for profits, they develop new markets so that people can be « eco- needing to produce more and more, all while using the responsible ». most profitable energies. Number 2 We are seeing a real technological leap forward, such as Or green bills ? with nuclear energy. The nuclear-ITER fusion, which would The ideological attacks we hear all the time say that to be the magic solution, is comlete nonsense : experts say solve the problem we must turn off our computer screens that all would be expired by 2050. ITER diverts more than Rencontres (of course this can and should still be done). But at the 60% of European research funds towards a result that is same time supermarkets’ neon lights stay on all night long, not even guaranteed. internationales We need to research renewable energy. But even with the de jeunes best energy in the world, in order to stop global warming, production and consumption must be reduced. This can be révolutionnaires done by cutting socially useless production (advertisements, Programme de la journée weapons, etc.). This is impossible under the capitalist system. Green capitalism only has one objective : make profit, while making ecology seem to be a priority. 8h-9h30 : Breakfast Capitalism vs. ecosocialism International In order to respond to the ecological crisis, we must revolutionary 9h-9h30 : Delegation 5. Agriculture : how to break with capitalism and build an ecosocialist society. Meeting build new developement ? (1) http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/article/le-nucleaire-c-est- youth Camp GM and ecolabels 9h30-10h15 : Forum fortiche-ou The Ecology Emergency 6. Cancun summit, COPs For more information, read Daniel Tanuro’s report on climate After Fukushima, go out climate change movement change: http://orta.dynalias.org/inprecor/article-inprecor?id=739 Campamentos from nuclear energy, 7. the nuclear issue and internacionales solidarity with Japan the rise of the anti-nuclear de jóvenes Our energy answers movement Socialist Resistance: Ecosocia- to the ecological crisis revolucionarios (renewable energy...) 8. Shale gas list, Feminist, Revolutionary Ecologist mobilisations in 9. Vegetarianism The British section of the Fourth International, Socia- Italy list Resistance (SR), has a membership of 150 militants 10. Ecological transitional active upon three main fronts: ecosocialism, feminism Campeggio Anti-nuclear movement in demands and trade unions and revolutionary socialism. This year, we have a dele- internazionale Germany gation of seven comrades, some membres of SR, others 15h30-18h30 : Excursion from our strong ties with other left-wing groups and di giovani 10h15-10h30 : Break our work within the anti-cuts movement. We don’t ope- 18h30-19h30 : rate as a party ; we are an organised movement which rivoluzionari 10h30-12h : Educational uses its position in the radical socialist and ecologi- LGBTI Space : cal movements to challenge both bourgeois repression Marxism and ecology Performativity and environmental degradation. Lunch Internationale 12h-13h30 : 19h30-20h30 : Delegation The main campaigns that we focus our energy upon in- Jugendcamp 12h30-13h30 Meetings clude anti-cuts groups, such as Coalition of Resistance (CoR), ecological groups, like the Campain against Cli- revolutionäre Women Space : 20h30-21h30 : Dînner mate Change (CaCC); the struggles within trade unions; as well as in the LGBT, gender oppression and youth international non-mixt 23h-2h : Party movements. We have, for example, succesfuly passed General Assembly (in the an ecological resolution in the Coalition of Resistance; forum) agitated within trade unions in order to force strike ac- Internationaal tion in our workplaces, such as on June 30th; we are on 13h30-15h30 : the National Commitees of several campaign groups; jongerenkamp and we have been at the forefront of all the recent revolutionair Workshops : mass mobilisations in Britain. 1. Nuclear, how to get out, In the near future, we plan on being pivotal in the for- and alternative energy mation of a new broad left party, as the forthcoming book for the Fourth International will demonstrate ; we Internacional da 2. Climate change for are also working with CoR in staging a European Confe- downies rence on Austerity, to wich we invite all comrades to be juventude campo a part of. In addition, we are organising, through the FI, revolucionário 3. Climate refugees a speaking tour of Britain for the Philippino section. 4. Ecological Crisis : Green Solidarity to all comrades and viva la revolucion! Destroy capitalism, not the planet ! Ecology is fashionable today. Everyone is ecological, is which uses ressources (fossil energies, exhaustion of agri- remaining in the framework of the system and simply worried about nature, about recycling. Governments sign cultural terrains, pollution of sources of drinking water...). trying to improve it doesn’t respond to these needs. This declarations or claim to reduce noxious gases. Neverthe- This has consequences on the economy and reduces the doesn’t question what the capitalist system is based on : less, capitalisme, however green it might be, cannot build possibility for entire populations to reach self-sufficiency, the logic of profit. It stops all « ecological norms » as soon an economic system that corresponds to the necessity to exposes us to deseases (especially cancer), and some- as they start to represent a threat to the capitalists. preserve the planet and continue to live... times brings armed conflict on the issue of ressources, without even talking about catastrophes like Chernobyl Being anticapitalist impies having a vision of the system No socialism without ecology... or Fukushima. As a result of this, economic expansion doubly destructive nature of the capitalist system. It is depends on the destruction of ressources that enable hu- formulating a project for a new society that meets the The capitalist system rests on two types of exploitation, man beings to exist. need to abolish exploitation. We must stop the power of that of man by man-of the proletariat by the bourgeoi- the bourgeoisie. But socialism will not automatically break sie, a minority that uses to its advantage the labor of No ecology without socialism with the productivist logic upon which capitalism leans. the majority of the population. This is one of the ideas We must therefore insist on the ecological dimension of Marxist theory is based on, and explains where the notion The idea of reversing economic growth can be criticized our combat. of « class struggle » comes from. We reclaim this idea, because it doesn’t take into account inequalities between and placing ourselves by the side of youth and workers the richest countries and the rest of the planet. But the shows our will to build a new society, to take power and main problem is that ecological associations often main- put it in the hands of the working class. tain the illusion that these solutions could be applicable On the other hand, ecologist currents insist on the idea within the framework of the curren system. These currents of a need to reverse economic growth, which would res- criticize Marxist groups by calling them « productivist » pond to the capitalist system’s desctruction of the world (meaning that they think that the problem will be solved ecosystem : not only on pandas or penguins, but also by simply raising our productive capabilities). However, Against the world crisis, internationalism ! Along the southern shore of the Mediterranean, workers the only way to build resistance to austerity politics. But This counter-summit gives us the possibility to organize are demonstrating that, in order to make those respon- the imperialists don’t just sit back and wait for things to ourselves at an international level, and also to explain the sible pay for their own crisis, we can only rely on our pass by. As soon as the Libyan people rose up to kick out global logic of capitalism, the necessity to unite our strug- own forces. Beginning with the overthrow of dictators who their dictator, European powers (led by Sarkozy) and the gles against all aspects of the crisis (economic, social, walked hand-in-hand with the IMF and our governments, United States decided to intervene militarily, not just to political and ecological...) above and beyond borders. It is the peoples are regaining confidence and have blown the protect the people (by bombing them) as they claimed, the occasion to reaffirm that all over the world we refuse breeze of revolt that has reached the opposite shore of but to maintain control over a country that is rich in na- to pay for an illlegitimate debt, which we must cancel the sea. Following the example of the Egyptians in Tahrir tural ressources and perfectly located between the two immediately. Square, Spanish youth have invaded Puerta del Sol, then vanguards of the revolution : Tunisia and Egypt. From mi- Syntagma Square in Athens became home to thousands litary intervention in the Ivory Coast to the occupation of The return of mass struggle of « indignados » every day. When confronted with the Afghanistan, imperialism takes no vacation. If it is getting government that wants them to pay for the debt through bogged down in Libya an dis forced to forsee and exit On the southern shore of the Mediterranean, dictatorships a fifth austerity plan, the people of Athens have said « We plan for Afghanistan, it is because resistances are bringing and bombs are daily life for the people.

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