A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #229 - Frequently self-management in Toulouse: A political and festive success (fr) [machine translation]

Every year the Bazar Bazacle, collective grouping intermittent-es of the show, are 
employee-energy, and cultural activists, association or union, organizes sports park 
Bazacle of his festival. This year's Bazar Bazacle hosted the fair in self debates, 
concerts, workshops, screenings, organized by Team Bazaar and fair collective 
self-management (The Alternative, Alternative Libertarian Association for Self-Management, 
Committees revolutionary syndicalists, CGA, Fase, FA, OMC, NPA, the maquis (self managed 
squat). ---- On May 1, after the event, an appointment was given space Bazacle for a 
roundtable discussion on the history of the self, led by the CGA, an activist of the 
Association for Solidarity and self . Great success for this first debate, which attracted 
hundreds of people and lasted about two hours.

The attendance record was beaten that day, but throughout the week, each debate drew fifty 
people per time slot. Concerts and theatrical evening were a hundred input. The audience 
was quite varied, including many young and not exclusively activist. An estimated 1,500 
people have gone over the 5 days.

The debate on Sunday on the convergence of struggles has attracted only fifty people. It 
was led by a fellow CSR and another south culture, workers Freescale employment center and 
Foundry Fumel, who spoke of their struggle.

Political balance

The general atmosphere was very nice: no incidents or problems that are not occurring. 
However it should be noted that even in activist circles, sexism is this: some comrades 
have not been spared by the machismo of festival and feminist self-defense workshop, 
organized non-mixed, did not unanimously subject of bad jokes that say a lot about the 
lack of legitimacy of this practice. Both debates projections (LIP: imagination and the 
power of women Bruckmann) held at the Utopia cinema, were well received and have not 
returned as activists.

The fair allowed rub both libertarian activists as members of self-managing organizations 
of the left, the people involved in associative struggles, cultural, housing, trade 
unionists and sympathizers are the various ongoing struggles . Many and many participants 
were able to exchange are at workshops on concrete current economic and social experiments 
but also know practices revolving around self-management struggles, as in the last debate 
on the convergence of struggles experiences where trade unionists were actually tell how 
struggles have led to the foundry Fumel and Freescale. In one of "self municipality and" 
profound differences could be heard. The experience of direct democracy in an independent 
voting institutions that had prevented the destruction of a building in the popular area 
of ââReynerie in Toulouse, told by a fellow AL, broke with the legitimacy of elected 
Alternative self-confident their required within Municipalities actions. However on all 
the debates, libertarian ideas were not very predominant and as such it might have 
deserved more involvement in the debate of ideas from the various libertarian currents 
present at the Fair .

Prospects struggle?

Sunday's debate on self struggles helped formulate a critique of the union bureaucracy 
without falling into the primary anti unionism. This debate has confirmed the need to find 
a place like the labor exchanges in the early nineteenth century home is an expression as 
an action or reflection, activists and social activists in the struggle.

The convergence of struggles in companies like those of social movements, such as housing, 
was considered necessary to break the bursting of the social movement and develop 
solidarity and support in more detail. Direct democracy and a more horizontal management 
necessary coordination of struggles was also mentioned. Without materialize immediately, 
these exchanges have enabled us to know us better prepare for a future in the midst of 
economic, social and political uncertainties may emerge a real project anticapitalist 
self-managing society. Following the debate on housing to which activists squats and CGT 
building involved, it was decided to redo a meeting will be invited friendly tenants.

A rewarding experience to renew.

Our activist active assistance, but we were not alone, for all tasks (cooking, cleaning, 
security ...) was assessed by the team Bazar conditions for renewed cooperation seem to be 
there, we whether we want to continue the experience. For this joint review meetings with 
the bazaar, but also between the organizer of the fair-matrices are the order of the day 
to see if we reconduirons experience next year. Perhaps at this time we will bring our 
project more libertarian communist society.

We forgot to give the results of the meeting of "football without a referee." Normal there 
was no referee.

Aureline and Jean-Marc (AL Toulouse)
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