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[CHANCES International 9Qt tO-A~th.r - tft9 Outch co~radœ bho we8 orgonl&lng tA8 Iiluting in Hollana "'BS badly injYred ..

Bo.e deys bafora the 1et of Nove~b8r, œo the g0t-together hed to be dehyad to 1985. Illet hope hi.9 rocovery tl111 a110111 hi. '0 ~elcom. us aB wa. proj~ct.d.

Caston Davouat (Chez4) - an old fr~nch ~ilitant ror~.rly • ..._ ber of Socialisme ou Barbarie then of I:C.O. (InforœatiDn Cor­ r.spondance Ouvrierea) end of Echangea died on thG 28th of Sep­ tember 1984. HG W8& 80 years oldl he .lways kapt a very in~­ .ndent critical Mind •

. S~e co_rades and fri.nds WQnt to publiah Q peaphl.t or bGok whlch would contain a aelf-blography and a selection ., hi. tIIost recont writinga. The Siu of thil Idork will Depend on th • .. onay availabla ta P40Iblian it. Ille don't call 'or Aloney prea.nt. ly but ask hOIal IltUch you will be reedy ta pey elthar for a .ub. s.cription or '~r a .contribut,ion to the printing costa.

PA~PHLETS Pre8ent~y, for ~bout aix Montha, the Engl18h edition of Echanges dos. not coincid. with the french edition. W.

had SOMA probla .. s. of translation. 81110ng other current difficul­ ti.a. N.v.rth.l.... English subscriber9 have rsceiv.d thr •• paMphlets; two of triem w.re publiahed by Scorcher Publications,

~~ 80x ~6, 1-0-8 Book.hop, 10B ~alisbury Road, Cardiff. As w. a­ ir •• with their pont8n~, we have aent the •• s a part of th. Echan~.s .ubscription. The •• two pamphlets, The Hun~ari.n Rev­ olution (60p) and The Experience of the factory Co.~itte.s in

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the Russian Revolution (Sop) are still available at Echanges or at th. addr.8 ... ntloned on page 1 for a widar distribution (halp required). The third pa.phlet, Cw.b,ch ~in_r. and Wo.en Spaak Dut WBS writ­ ten by .iners and .inora' wfvss. lt ia dlstributsd for infor­ ~ation. but ~ainly for helping ta collect money for the Cw.bach ~in8r.' Relief rund. AlI inforMation 'or donation. and fur­ t,'ar copies are in the pa"'phlllt. blid. distribution and lIIonB~ collKtion reouirilld. ' ~ AlI aubscribers 8' the English aditlon will ooon recQiva th. second part of Wo~kar.' Counc!ls. (Pannekoek) -2- The fiaht­ (the two la st part. wlll rollo~ during 1985). Wu hope ta rœ­ c.iva before Sprin9 the A.aricsn edition by Black and Red of the book on Poland: (H. Simon) P~land - 1990-84 - C18s8 5trug­ gle and Crlsi. of Cepitnl. This book wll1 ba sont to aIl sub- 8cribars of the English edition.

puaLICATIO~S

8~lGIUA Le COffl~uniste - Groupe Co~nist. Internationalista (BP 54 8XL 31 BrU8~ sols i~loiya). in ~rench - n. ~O

August 'S4 - In Great Jrltain 88 eVGry~h9r9, unions break the struggle - Iran-Irak - Class ~ar again&t i~perialist war - 50&8 aspects of the housin9 question - Against ~ytholoQY 81lowln~. the national liberation (III) - Co~unh", IiInd national questio~L:D. (Bordiga 1924).

COLU~8IA A Stru~qle in th. Heert Andeecopy at [changQS}, in french, ~e paasant strugglss ta reconquar

their land an~ the r8pression~ The intereat of this taxt ia not so much in the racta it describas becaus. thay are .ore or less knOllln; it is Alore ln th. rOr~8 0' co_unit.y oruaniaation. ror survival and action, apparontly .uce •• afull t~ contaln these .ove.ents, the rullng-claas i. pow.rie •• ln it'e ette.ot to break thi. Indian tradition of coll.ctive iif ••

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CANADA Alternative 800kanop (2033 Boulevard St. Laurent ~ontreal, Québac, Ca~d. H2X2T3) calla everybody to--aas~st

th.m in an internati financiel campaign: bookstore and all prajects are in jooperdy. . .

IItren Raad - (Box 6135 Statio Vancouver B.C., Canada V6R4G5 • 17) Winter '84, in ~ng]ish,'i! you are interested it con­

tains a lot of inforAiation on aIl klùnt~und gueril­ las and direct action groups, their ection and thelr rapresslon

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FRANCE Essai& - (SP 1013 49015 Angora Ced- QX), in french, n. 44 - bulletin of proletarian criticism and eo~muni~a~

tiono - AttituUSQ whryn ~ll rolau rave lost their meaning - ~on­ Dy despisad - ·Publlc~tions revi~w.

L'Union~o)étarienna (cio Librairie L'Herbe Rouge 1 bis rue d'Alosia 7J014 Paris), in French, n. 4 February-Aarch '84 - Talbot Poi83y - Crisio and rostructuring of capital in the car industry - InRigratlon; control, redundancy, racist assassina­ tions and .~pell1n9s: french and i~~igrant workars, you hava ta anawer ~ Capital criai; and i~perialist w~r·~-n. 5 - September­ Octobar '84 - Balanes and perspectivas - n. 6 - Novembar-Decem­ ber '84 - Open letter ta the Qnti-fascist and anti-racist d8-

~ce cOMmit tee or Lilla-Roubaix Prisons: on racent struggles - ~deloupa: nationalis~ ~9ainst proletariat - The problem of

national minorities - lnte national Solidarity - To understand the positions of thi~ bulletin, we will quote only the last linea of this last articla: "Nevertheless we have to remember how big the woaknass is of the revolutionary people: the ab­ senca of a centralized international communist organisation which would be the organised speaker for tha worl~ proletariat. The building or such an org~~ly without doubt the funde.antal talk o~com~unistsd - Of course.

Jalon. (cio L'~A-R~ga S8e abova), in french, (s8e previovs issu. Of~8~' n. 5 - October '84 - A grsat rensgade with • ~ tail: Leon Trotsky ('ro. Bilan n. 46, J~nuary '38) - China, anothe~ 1mperiali8t rire (Com.unlsm 6-9-37) - Aboùt I.e. O., .o~a precisions - Gaston Davoust (H. Cha,') biography (6es abov.).

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Subversion (8P 221 44604 St. Nazaire Cedex), in French, n. 7 - Hov9~bDr '84 - ~iners' strike in Great 8ritain - Safari in apartheid country - Leaflets from (veil In~ernationaliste.

From a Society to the:Othei Cn~ - (Catherine Buker 105 rue da Javal 7S015 Paris) four pagea in french, Uctober '64 From the Abolitionist (JoveMsnt - o~ the abolition of prisons (mainly on the hungar strika of Action Directe Prisonars).

bA tété en bu. (CRICO 8P 32 76001 Rouen Cedex), in french, June-August '84 - Local bulletin which presnats itsalf es "the product 0' a ~eeti~9, of a 8tate~ont and of a will" - (thG09~ thrae words are ~Gry ",œIl ~xplained) "will" to add a "place o,~ discussion and axcnenges which wQuld contributo to raconQuar our own lif. ugainat aIl ",hat divides it~ - This issue contains some t8xtS on strugglss ôround Rouen: in a post office (Oece~- ber '83) - Long atory about a sMall strike - in a Renault fac­ tory ut Claon (~arch '84) - We have a kind of diary of this lest _trika in which a worker talls in plain language aIl th0 hesitations, ups and COllins of a "smal1 local strike"; 1d8 csn lsarn a lot 0' this dial~ctical procaSB of autono~y and 811 th~ organisation of labour, a~O of the Duilding of the balance of struggle in the daily lifa at ~ork - So~abody could raad and' give a review a thasis (in french).

forman Hervé ~dr8s 10 rue da R'ocroi 59100 Rou1euix), in Frmnch, 1967-68 Avant la Grève GéUGrale: lee Grèves en francs and "La CommunisAla a L'usine" (wO<li1ker life anc IIIorker l1Iovement at Renault 1920-39).

Courant Alternatif (Egregore BP 1213 510S8 Rei~s Ced~x), in french, monthly - Organisation Com~uniste Libartaire - n. 39 - October '84 - On nvclear pow.r, Basoue Country, Le Pen, SQneg.l~ on tha Indian cO~Aluniti8s of Canca, extrema South of COIUMb1~) Brasil. This lest article givRs a lot of dct.11s about social·· cl.ssis especially on the new lIIodern bourgeoisie vary concan­ trated and ruling e huge proletarien and under proletarian m ••• about the political manipulations and fraMing of poaeants an~ work8rs, about the semi-feudal 9tr~ctures of domination on the poor peasants disPos8assed of their land in the Nordeste, about the worker movement (already controlled by a Labour Party, by unions tr~ing to take the Jaad of a self-organised movement). ractory committees (similar ta the workers comlllittees in Franco, Spain) have grown aside official corµoratiat unions, they are alrsady the centra of int~igue from ~aoist, Stalinlst, etc. ; • paritas. Ils in Pol and the Cathol.lc Church plays an illl~ortant. rulp. in this class strug~le with Eccle~iastic Based Co •• itt •••

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(GES) and looks for a "moderhist" function in th.se s.tructures, ona foot in the l~gellty, anothsr foot in the ravolt tendenci.s. The article concludas: "The revoIt' ara and of p.ssant revolu­ ti~n~ is perhaps, over here 8S everywhere aIl .ro~nd th. third world - Wa are no~ al another level of class struggla". It'. true,but in a country like ~rasil, the main point la to know a whel'a and what, the loIorkars strugglas ire on on~. 'hand, the peas­

~ ant Btruggle. on the other hand.

JeB~ Aarie Le Puceau ou le Triste SirR de Vas Couleura (Revolu­ tion Sociale 8P 30316 75767 Paris Cedex 16), pamphlet in Ff~nch, Au~umn '64 - n. 2 '- (the title can't be trenalated, il 1. e dOUble entendra linked to Joan of Arc). It ie diffi~ult Indead, to ravia'" this pamphlet which is a mixture of good and bad things. We C8n read some good quotations 0' Pannakoek and relevant t.mar~s mixsd with 60me completely out of date styla phrasa.. On the ",hole, the taxt tuIla us rightly how the Le Pan phanomenon is a marginal one but it afllplifias it using th. aama populist countBr~argument8. The authors dascribe very weil the mixture of circumstancs& which allowad the te.porary .urg. of this faked atar but ~a can read 80ma lina_ further that he could be the embodiment of a otrung politicBl po1ut~on (thay don't us~ the word fascislIl but ~t is in thair pcn, not writtan bacause the irralevance of the word in th1. situation preventad them to use it). Thay uaa electoral figura C8 the tradition.l parties ror e dubloua co~parison betwacn non-com­ parabl. facts. What iB more, th,y insist on "th •• tr.ngth of

.... th. capitalist idaololjjY in the mind and action of exploited ~people· to add on8 page later that the "world will 800n se.

, d •• p historical earthQuakes",. They calI rgr an inter.vention aiming at a »numan world co~munity" whan on ~he other side rul­ in~ out those "who wait for the co~ing of a communist perapec­ tive" or fiQht,for ,"an u~tra-radical program".

Agate - Libertarian ·<t:~view (BP 1214 31037 'Toulousa Cedex), in french, n. 24 - _i~t~r"a4 - Letter fro~ insida the crOT: PenCho Villa accuses - Article on the roundation St. Si~on, lab­ oratory for the modernist thinking where wa can get ail kind8 0' leaders together: nasses, uoion., bureaucrata, hlgh levaI politicians" and leftillt . journalists ...:. Ori' Polands looking 'or Solidarity. Ayore h,s publi~hed e file càlled: "This cold that cOlles fr'om the Test" whlcn containa .. ain articles pubUshed in A~or. and In'Iltqk ,on Eart8r~ .countrie. with 8olle·unpublished taxts or Yugoslavia - (30 ~~~~)

La lient' Souf*'l. ou il Pent (the wind' blojol. froll! where 1t can)

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let ter in french dealin9 wlth the publication of a n.w bullatin "~ateriaux" which i8 supposed to beco~e a link b.tween avery­ body wanti~g it '$0. Not against what alr.ady exiata but to complete it. We can und.retand al1 that: Echanges 16 ~ore or less trying to be 50. But what w. don't undaratand is th. as­ sortion "The paper will not be for agitation but It will b. ~ilitant ••• " - ~ateriaux (cio Librairie l'eu dekora 46 rue d. ~irail 33800 Bordeaux) ••

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SLT (Syndic~t da Lutte des Travaill.ura - Centra Social Plac. ~l'Europa 58670 Granda Synthe) - Vou can halp it 'inanci-~\ ally and recaive a. weIl, all tha l.arlats glving you a good~ view of th. daily lif. in •• odern french et.elwork (Ounklrk'­ Usinor). If it i5 not too lat., you can nalp t.o • .-b.ra of a .upport com~itte. against tha sacking of a SLT del.gata, h.évily •• n­ tenced in October '84 by a french court to pay .ora than (1000 for _ritings or walls the y hava not parror •• d.

L'Insecurite Sociale (BP 243 75564 Paria Cadax 12), ln Long anawer to Portland focus (Th. Alara) - PO Box 22466 waukee OR 98222, U,S.A. -Wa csn glve only the diacueoed ++00 the four basic princip18S of focual

1) 8ssemblia. and co •• ittaa. oppo.ed to unlon. 2) against the national liberation .ove~ent. 3) abolition of com.oditi •• and waged labovr 4) against lIIestern and Eaatern state capiteliul

++on the threa themes in dlscus.ionl 1) the organisational que.tlon (again) 2) Bolshevia. 3) ecol"omy

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Intarco~ (cio Auton~.y Pre.a 64 Qu •• n Stre.t Gla.gow) .ao4a a 1iat of addr..... for contacta in (ngland and al.awher ••

Counter Information (80x 81 firat of ~.Y 80ok.hop 43 Candla­ makers Row Edinourgh ScotlandJ, in Ehgliah, 22-8-84 - ·~.w. from a Scottish pit :.. 81leton, Cl.n .en th.' daÜy fight of IIIl".t •• "'or~ on the minérs' strlke in'tha-suppi.làérif·n. 4

Class 0 War {box cw rreado~ Pre •• 84b,Whi~achapei Hl~h Street . 'London (1j, ln Engli,s.h, Opan the aecond front - 50 •• filic.t. on the miners' strike.

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Spactacular Timas (Box 99 84b Whlt.chapal High' Strèat London (1), in English, Small collection or eituationt.ta texte and bibliography of other aituationiat taxte in Engli.h ~

Tough _cDno.lc cli.ata has failed ta alter labôur r!lationa in Great Brite!n, in EnQliah, rrOM The rinancial Ti ••• - 9-11-84 - lt i8 the 8um.ing ~p o( a d.tailad atudy on workplac. indu.t~i­ al relations in the le.t decad. and "any of th. tinding. chal­ langed acceptad th.ori •• that the tough.r ocono.ic cli.at. ha.

~ .ign!ficantly altered labour relationa. It .ay. that real eorn­ ~ing. hawa ri •• n fa.ter and productlvity .are alowly .inee 1919

tha" a.rlier in tha 70'. and that lIIore tiDe ia now lo.t in .trik •• then in th. la8~ 20 year. (cop~ at Echeng.a).

New AnorchiDt Rovhw (FraedOta Pro •• 84b Whitachepel Migh Street London E17 QX) Frea publication doGling ",ith libertadan group. and publicationa dlstributad by A Dlottibytion (8 ••• addra.~).

Wildcat (Cio The AutcnoQy CantQr 8-10 Creat Ancaat. Str.et .. "anchester 4 Englend), in [ngliah,

+Saptember '84 - ~OQ8n in th •• inera' strike - Austin Ravel' workers d&'y bo •• and uRion.

+Nov .. b_r 'B4 - Ganaral Strik., Ro.d to Oa'aat (1926-1984) - Why la the Minera' fi~ht our flght?

(cIo Autonoay Pre.s 6. Quean St.re.t Ainars' otrike rro. Killock Colliery

Clydp.ide Anorchi~t. Clàsgow), ln Engliah, (South Ayshlre).

The Social and Political Cr!ah in the UK OUl'ing the Wintar of Oiscontent. The Strikaa and th. rall of the Labour Cevarn.ent (1878-1979) - H. Si~on - October '79. This lonQ taxt •• lata in

~EnQliah, French, and Speniah (copie. at Echang.a).

~INTERHATIONAL DOCKERS' STRUCGL[S IN THE EIGHTIES (BA Slob London WC1 N3XX) translated and produced by indivl~ dualO in LlsDon, B~rcelona, Aerhus, London, and ~ew York. . J t "' •• a, good 'idea to translat,e .11 the •• texte on 'tl'le aut.on'o­ IIOUS .truggl. of 8arc'elona, dockeTa and to' tr}' to link the. to si_l1ar atruggl.s aIl about Europo, a good idea even if it ",a. a let a ona (Sarcelona dockera' atrike took placa in 1979-1980). Echan~aa has given a long report on thi. atrlk. (n. 26, ~ay 1981). This atrlk •. waa ofr.ctiwely a part of a wider fight a­ gainat the ro.truëturing of th. transport. all oval' tne ,",orld, ao-caUed lIIoderni ... tion. But why having, li.it.d tha other struggle. to the Oani.h·docke(a or •• rhua and to th. fight of En91i.h docker. ln th. aightlas? aecauae we can ••• lly a9re. with whet ie eaid about th ••• action., wa can in .lot .a wall

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8 - so~e outli"es in English of twxts in ICC n. 2 in Chinese (Rus­ ai. and count.r-revolution (1917-21), Eastern Capitalism (a pol­ itico aconomico analysis), again a discussion with ICC and CWO (.nother tiny English group).

what i9 badly ~i8sing in this pamphletl repprls on the dockars 8truggb~~ in thEL lIIain Europaan ports ",here Ille could 8e8 tha salRs aut-onolllou_s' t'lni:1encies; Hallburg (Janue,ry,'18), Rotterda. (-August '79 alld"S'Ptelllbsr '84), Antlilerp, Cenon, atc; The P"_ phlet IIIJluid hav'e bIen better balanead aa lIIell if "'. eould have read IIIore on English dockers. SuCh a wider 'r.llie", of ill the dockers' strugg18~,WoCld' have contributad -ta a _or. criticel ~iaw of the Ba~celon. dock.ra' strike and of their '.Lled at~ t.lllpts to build a national and international dockora coordina­ tion. 1 think that auch otllisaions are not haph_zu·d. l ,,"1l~\ quota only the 'iret aentence of the pa~phlet' Nlike Sle.pin~ Beauty, lIIorkere averywhera are' re-awak,ning. Hopllfully at long lest to, fin_lly realize their desir.l. Although now bœcn.ing clearly vi~ible, thi. world, ra:awakening heu baan long in pre­ parjng and ha. gon. through lIIany unsung routes •• N Ail wh~t l can say in these limited lines is that 1 atrongly diasgr •• with sucn e schematic interpretation of cless atruggle. 8arcelone dockers' atrike and organisation is uaGn like CI for~al thing. Aut nOllly ci!lnnot .. be ae.n forlllally otherillis. CIIany Il1portant 'act0 will escape anslysis: Autonomy can bœ sean inside atrikoa ap­ par.nt~y totally controllud by unions; autonomous orgainsation. oft~n turns (even during a strike) to ba a kind of trad~ union trYl.ng to 8urvive the 8trike pfilriod. Attampts 1:0 sl11<1rgo'.uch local autonomous organisation cen quiCkly faill exectly ~hat hapP.ned for th. atte.pt ta build a natlonal autonomoua Spaniah docke~a! organisation 8S well as for the international.coorde­ nation which d~n' t aven succeed in building an information' .x­ change center. Barcelone doc.ere' atrika and organisation wera exemplaryl it had'to be said and the pamphlet dld it weil. Any ~truggl8 finda it's liMits, industrial, national and interna­ tional as far as th. worlr1 ravolution ia not here; eny atte.p_'. ta bul1d out o~ ths struggle ilseH ,ofllething that the workers.­ have not Succe.ded to do in their atrugg18 i~ doo~ed. That has to be -.id too.

ITALY- Prol'talrea si vous aaviez •• Italie '77-'80 COaGre Kii't~u. cio IL'H.rae Rouge see prelliou8 peges). This pa~­

phlet under the titla Nlnsurrsliiione" conteins tlilO texts trans­ ~ latG8 from Italien: Nthe aboratory of counter-revolution ~It.ly 1919-1980N _nd Nthe sunset, Italien operais~,.nd tt's sur­

roundines", th.se texta criticilliing operais~ were published·in ItQly in 1981 bv sn infor~l group of for~er operai.ts who met l'cr' a UlM on the Slo.ition to . dGlnounce tho 18ft leniniall and tho rad brigadea. This group diaG9geared in 1979. A postfix 'rOll! the collectll1e NQ,lIbre H~rdi tiqueN brinCjJa aO"illl useful exp la­ nation. on the dirrœrant idl'Jotogies ,of t.hll dirreunt groups, col)ectivQQ, 'eutonomoue' or not which trled in this ,perlod to atay in touch with the actual wgrkœr's ~~aIlQnt. This postfix and both texte bring8 v~ry little to holp ln knowin9 a~d under~ ~tanding thio aetusl aCIIQmant. More, the criticisM-oi the var~ ious operaist tandenciQs borrows their language and constantly refers to the political eur e en e e of th., post fifty yeers. Oniy 8n' IIxpert in ravolutionary Italian oroups can follolol and par­ ticip~to ~8t ~8S the actual cl&s~ stru9g1a ~ove •• nt in th.se years '70'BO 8S expressed in the ac~ions ~hem~elv8s is still to be kno~n out of ItalYI wo CBn lœarn B lot, on the functioning 0' groupa or tho problaae of individuels i~volv8d by chanCEl in these avents but no Qor ••

~gnion Criais and Indexation in Wag88 (Collagallenti-Wobby G. ~arozz. CP 1362 50100 fireuza Italy), in french, Two texts

lIIera translated frolll Italien a~ you will find ,blllfore SOIII. ex­ planatory notes (on unions, ~ag.s, and '83-'84 avent. in ltaly) end aftor a notc on Collega~anti. This kind'of'taxt biings a lot MOr. then the previouB pamphlet on closs .truggla but only for the .o~t recent pel'iod (1983-84) becaus. it deais with' th. actual atrug;le.. It is n.vertheless still a cotll~lex probletll, even .ore for foreigh readers not ua.d to the details of indus­ trlal lif. in Italy. The needed 8xplanations given in the in­ troductory notes ar.bften Qot enough ta undaratand wall whal is practlcally the ind.xatlon of wagea, th.' relatjonship b.­ tw«en ,unions. the f,açtory co_i t te •• , 'and the rank.,.~r.td.,. file •• "e.ent c,: .. llt!d .... lf-convOI<.d Mov ... nt". 1111 the facts are l1nkad b)',,~,)he.i.l aqualization of ",av •• cOMir'-i up from the

HONG KO~G International Correspond.nc. (P.O. Box 44U07 Shankeiwan Post Office Hong Kong), in (ng1iSh, Supplement of

a L.ft Com.unist ~ournal pùblish.d in Hon9 Kong October '84 n. 2 - Vou ~ill not find in this big bulletin any InforMation 'or diSCUSsions on China. The surprise i_ to follow,pa.ljje a,te,. page a discussion .. ith· ICC (CritiQue of' the CD~n1st 8ull,eU .. Croup - Clas. Conaciouan •• s and the Party ROle) end to ,..ad

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indexation .yst.m (it wes th. conQuest of the past strugglas) .~ has b.coma. w.apon ag.inst workers becsuse it ha. eli.inated a11 conflicta. "Wh.n giving way COMpletely on wagec ~attera, the co.ponante of class power have been saved in Italy". Thi. the.ia brings .0 •• co.pariaon with what happened in other Euro- pean countri.e with the ide. that Italy la raally in a p.culiar Poaition. 8ut in th ••• countrl.e, the situation la about th. a ••• without this '.qualization' of wage., whicn is d.strOYinge th. th •• is it.elf. • . '

lAPAN Japen's A.t.less Generation - A Wav. of Hedoni.~ Shocks the Workaholic El­ dera and Threatan. th. future, in Eng_

li.h, ~ewaw.ek - Oetobar 9, 1984 - LonQ article on the devalop­ •• nt of tandencie. that S8effl to be 'underMining lapan'. induat­ rloue eoul'. Tha •• tandancia. ars not only the faet of •• is­ fit fring. and axpr.ssing a randOM violence but refer to MthG .i.l.e.n ••• that is Ipra.ding lik. an apida.ic amOn9 Mainatre •• youthn• What is .are th.se teenage habi ts are sp'raading like Il faanion in .11 South.est Asia os a kind of youth rabellion. Al­ ready th. ruling-cloa. i8 looking for ha touch of adverait," so that "tha Japanese may fa8l the, hmve to'work harder 8g_in".

LATIN AAERICA (xoti •• e a'abatauir (Editions Acrati. BP 2S 40300 Pevtehorada - Subacrip­ tlon priee 70 ff), in French, Dlory~

of a trip in Latin Altlerlca (1983-84) C. Reave - This diary h~ at firat a ra'lection on what w. have s •• n, Ilv.d, read, and discua.ed wh.n ~ncounting anybody making fr.in~s ••• lt ha. ri~ s.n fro. the daily confrontation batw •• n th. world wo can •• e lIIi th our .ye. and the ana we h_d in o.ur lIIind •.

EASTER~ COUHTRIES Council Co.muni~t Pa~phlet5 -(~corch- .r Publlcations Box n. S6 1~O-a Book.hop 108 SaliSbury Roe~ Card!~f)

in EnglishJ n. 1 - Tho Hungarlan Revolution n. 2 - The Exp.ri.nce of the factory CO.Mitt •••

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Iztok (BP 161-09 75422 Paris Cedex 09 franc. - nèw aGdr •• s, infrench, Libetarian Revie.., on-'(astern Countries - n. 9 - Sept­ e.ber '84 - DiscUBsion with a Polish Lib.rt.rian - Hungary: th.

" axisting so~~~lisM and the nori~.xisting socialisAI - (On a book _~,of "'ik~os Tall!l8s Caspar: "The av. and th. hand: Introduction

, to Politics",) - Bakumin and L.nin - On V. Litvinov ~ ~urreal­ ·18111 in Ea.tern countri.s - Discussions with Radovan lnsic (Yug­ oelavian) - Cuea: who i8 fri9ht.nad by'literatu~e? On birth­

. rai~ ln Romania.

:_A5Iara, - '''C. froid qui vient de l'Est" in french (s.a abave).

SPAIN Qüa P •• a? - Struggl •• in the Ship- varda - Collection of articl.a in Spanish with an Introductory nota ln

french on the racent Itrik •• in th. Spanish shipyarda. On the .aMe .ubject. SOIII. quote. frolll • Barcelona letter: "A. for the [ngli.h .iner., tha struggl. i. _gainat r~&tructurin~ 0' the Splniah shipyard. which will brlng a lot of redundancl.a. Thesa workers ara a MinoritV aven co"parad with th. working population of .hipyard. towns ana they hava not aven succe.d.d (thev practically hava not tri.d to do it cl.arlyJ to break the plac~ of wo~k cirel. and their de~and tu k.ep ~haii job at thi. place. ...... On the othar. hand, the different shipyards scattered all over Spain had not succe.ded to build a close link betw.en their .c~iDn.. rot instance, no g.nerel shlpyards sttlk~, no coordi­ nate~ action betwe.n the different town.. It is às if every Ihipyard was fightin9 ror it'. own saka to maintain it'. Dwn

.... workforc •• But neuerthelees in the last weeks of Oecamber the ~.a.e actions hap~enad at the sa~e time in diffarant towns Vigo,

CiJon, farrol, 'Cadiz, Bibao •• ;~a could say th~t the main re.­ son for righting ia Inxie~y with unemployment: I~ Spain after two year. of paid dole, it is pcvarty and nothing ela.. That could explain the workers' violence and the dafensive action without anv prospect to quastion the social system. Perhaps it stav. a derensive action, a radical one bec~use worker. ara 'becked to tne wall without any other po •• ibl11 ty than to fight:

" the toughness of the government politici d~e8 not open on neg­ '""otiatlons. Gijon liIor" .. rB .aid.: "If there la no solution, III.

_will break Gijon~. (uen th. induatry Minist.r, Salchaga. cyn­ ',_,- ically recogniz.d that "the lIIorkers dld what the·y had to do" in .~ '~ont or th!s "pai~ful ro.truct~ring"; he added that the ra­

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can observ& so~e very interesting facts: in Basque c~untry (Bilbao) the workers act in.tne shipyaras al different ti~es _ but only to fignt the police, not ~t all for S.lt-.B~aoe •• nt. This idea has disapp.~r8d from their head but for the.organisa-' tion of '~ction. Tni shipyard is not a pIace for w~rk but. IIIell-known fLrtr.s8 where they c·""Oentreneh; A non forese.n re-' structuring. Workin~ tlme and place converted in fiyhting ti •• and o Lae a , ',' .»

ln these 'circumstances, wcrkers' ll!'s,gination and ability to glil~ the material f1gtotinç we8µons aoainst the police dev.lop.ed to III high dagree. Ille don't have to overs8tilllBte it but to,Un.der­ line the apparent contradiction betwesn this radicality-~nd ihs dispair alllong tAe worksrs. On ons hano thes. werl<er,e sr' not conscious of th.ir possibiliti8. for a a.lf-~.naglnO s~ii~ty, on the other hand ~a can •• e e~.ctly the contrary, lheir abil­ ity t~ self-~an.ge thair fight, their atrœngth negativsly op­ posed to c pital. Wiping eut t is positive ides of 8elf-~e~agQ~ IIIl1nt is important', (re"oving at the,: s.· ... tille the bIOrkera' .b­ l1ity for self-Managlng eapitali~t production): often eapitBl and the stata u5ed tnis ~06itiv. tendency to bring worksra to self-manage tnelr ~on exploitation when their rir~ hsd SOQV .prablema IIIith accumulation (a.g. cooperation). On .t ne oth'er side, the goverl'l'Illent is infllllxibll!J: the' r.illon d',E.ta,<' ,lIJhicli i'B only the n.,j'ds for ,capital, is- il good arÇlu­ ment, ta explain that nothing al~e Can be done. When the con­ fIlets are lilllited ât the place of work, tha reprasaion 18 very slignt; ~nen. ~r09ressively the action spreBds in the towns, it o e c omas hClrder and .harder. ln B csrtain w·ay, ·the' government t ac t Lc s are to ",eaken the 'workers COIllb'ltivity in a hopeles~ fi~~t, IIIaitlng for the jtruggLe contradictions te bring the co~ fllets ta' ~othing. In that respect, the union role could be crucial'; S-b1idarity ia weak, it 'ia ,the first stap ta r.infcrc. the struggle. ~hat is cal180 ·gen.~al atrike' in Gijon for in­ stance ",ere 'days of proteat' and th. day after the .hipyarda IIIorkers have to rely only on th.lllselves. We can quota so~. of­ ficials in ·tne Basque country .ayiog about the different Bilbao shipyard$: "~resently no ahipYBrd csn hope to stay out of the restructolrin",. [ven Seatao ahipyard work&re ha". ta con8id.r t at Clnd beqir. t_ mobilize. In 'fact, the, are waiting, think­ ing tn~t restructuring is not for them though al_oat 1000 wlll be made redundant." •• lIIe can'sulII up thla ettit_ude.o' lIIeiting be­ CaU!;B '1 tr'in ... 1 IIIo ... ld be pushed on t". dola' •. This is th. main reasan of the irolation ~f ahlpyarde worle.ra. l'lore now an thp. uni0lO18. Of course uer (Social OIHl,ocrat)union doeE not su~porl at all the movementl social de~ocrats ere govsrnlng ~pani~h caoital. But the CCJO (linked to th. Co.-

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unist Party) are very prescnt in the avents. They have nct signed the 'social agree Bnt' (A.E.S. - econo_ica-90cial mQt~Q­ ment) and are now "opponmnts" to the govern.ant plAns. for tne~, all confl'cts linked to restructuring are e Çlood ~emn to try to rebuild their dOr:lination on. th. w9rkers' 1i19_Y4l1!lIilnt. Th.y ar8 not at aIl beco~ing radieela: in ather tiaos the, have signed a lot of such agreement. and their radicality is o"ly an cpp o r tUAiat and forlllsl 'one. As UC T IiIOvfld Qtl4Dy 'rom ,,",orkerc,

_) th. opportunity ilJ ljIoOd for th. CeDa ta ,tr,Y t,o gat. ClOUI • atren",th in thl! politieal g<3Ill,e: In Asturill, l'or '!t,stenc,",. tl'lfI'Y • cal! for' a one day c,anClrat atrlkfll on the 30th of' Novl88lborl

union unit y Ides brokilfl becaulio thl!J CCOO callgd tha str1ke alon@) at firat. Their intont tisa Qvidently to 9mt rid of the minor­ ity unions (CNT, USA). The CSI (laft union eurunt) tt,~gh~ puahed sside aB ~ell by the CCOO œenegod to jo1n th~p in th~ strike. lt w~s the firat atte_pt to try to eli~inatm the Qin­ ority unions in ord~r to ~fI)t 8 13g81 control of th~ ~ove~nt in Gijon. Vou have to undcrstRnd .0. 1 don't want to considllr un­ ion unit y and loIorl<ers unit y as the eellle thingl lIIhat l ",snt ta snow i9 how a sactarien tactic can aevGlop bgtWG~n unions eftâ the effects it has on the ~CrkQr8 oi8èeurag8~8nt: it le evidont that the ItIOrker9 still r~ly on unions IiInd don't shOlol. clear tendency to taka their movemont in thelr o~n hênd8. Evœn thœ le ft union i~ following it's PQticular intere.t, looking for, sorne space to give credit to it's own young bursmucrdcy. Thoir radicelity 1a on1y spactaculor words to br ng ~orker. ta fol- 10w tne actions they have docided for their ollln •• ka. Thà CsI leader, Luis Redundo could Olt Y on the 27th al' 1II0V~0r thet they called for 'activa resi.tance' in Cijon but edd9d WIn

eGijOn the unelllPloyment ratGJ is JO~. The aituation ia very e(ll"- . ious. Considering it, wQ are radical bac.usa w. don't ~ant to

see an incroa91i1 of thio rate which would lsad ta un'or.eoan situations. Wa are not, as other .eid ebout us, ·barb.rou~ unioniata". On the contrary, whet WB wQnt i8 avciding tho ",orst". 1 tnink these words are very significant. Th.y conai­ der t~e.aelves as a br_ke on th. ~ov ••• nt, tryino only to .hare ~ltn the ot~er unions the control an it: what is danQ.rous 1a tne ~Qrkern unific~tionoand their own action - a barbarous one, a mot action. ThBlr ièlative ' suee.es in doin9 50 can be e.an in t~e fact they have the suµport o".ll thoae di •• ppolnted by thelr short ,past autonomous 4xp.rienee and new sore or las8 dis­ cour1ged, ~ushed by their defeat to indivldu.lis ... "(C.~. 1-12- 14)

- 14 - Etcetera ([oit~rial Etc.tera ~partado Corr.os 1363 Barcolona) in Spanish, Corr.sp~ndoncia de la gu.~ra sociale - n~ 4 SObre la criais (II) Great Britain: the minera' strike (trans­ lation fro~ ECh~nges n. 40), Prosonce and r.ality of th. criais. Class Struogle in Italy - Conflict at Talbot-franco.

USA fifth [stata (5029 Second Avonuo, Detroit RI 4B202 USA), in Engligh, SU&lIIer '84 - vol. 19 n. 2 - ~at ia

possible? Dabdta on El Salvador. Anarchy and ChristianitYJ Qn Exchange - Big ~ountain: Native people roslat forcod relecetion and B8sault on old waya - Oirect action et ~ock Joland _ Thœ Sieoe of th. Arsonol. In boo~ reviawSI fro. Creace the second issue of Anarchos (ln Creek) ~hich includ8a urticlcs on the in­ dustrialisation of 8mall towns in Cr.acc.

SyntheSÎ8 (a new8lett!iJr cnd jourr.al ror social ocol09Y) ift English, August '84 - n. 17 - Book reVigWOI Green POlitice (F'ritjof Capra and Charlene Sprutnak) - Progremmof the CarAlan Creen Party - The last chence - An appeel for 80cial and ecol­ ogical aenity (~urray Bookchiu) - Stru~gle ta save the Austral­ ians' Rain forssts - Move for a National Groœn ~rganiaation in the U.S. - Populist Politics or Party Politics (Rurray Book­ chiu) - Social Ecologiste should renounce Green Parti~s (Jeff St~in) - Los Angslsa Area Green~ - ~e~t~ Am~rican big-rogionâl Congress. Leaflets from Anti-riuthoritarian Anonymous (P.o. Box 11331 Eugane OR 97440 USA), in (nglish. .

Processed World (55 Sutter Street 94194 USA), in [nglish - n. 12 - Any port in a storm? (analysis or lar (IBM workzrs) - Lst them eat This issue la pUblished ~ith a ~hich ia looking for (financial) been evicted from their premisas tiun of their "most revolutionary sur~rising.

APT. 829 ' San Francisco CA T~lking he~da - letters voting) - Hot un09r the col­ tGchnology - 800k reviews­ lattor t'o the friands of PIjf help and opace. They havœ

rollo~ing the rovengerul œc­ critic·. Oisgu8ting but not

YUGO~LAVIA VOlga (cio Gregor Crescant, Etham L~ndon SE9 SRZ Uk), calls for all evail.bls .eans of pre.aure in aup­

port of six Yugoslavians aceu~ed or ••• king te overthrow ,the clJnstilutional order of th. country, organising illegal mset-

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inge and auppoeed to b. sentencad for thMt aft.; anether big trial. Yugoelavis had in '84 the highaat por çapita nUlibar o.f political prieanar. in Europe includirig Ru.sia a"d in abaolute figure. tIIOro pollticel prieon.ta th.n South A'rica.

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CHINA '5 SpKh! ."fr _. -.w.. are 0AtI of th. r.. coùfltrios that C8fl ,nvida such • ,Nd ·priço .. J.th •• r .. ooclal

probl6Qa· (Ron XlaoahOftg, Geput, directD~ a' overe... op.re­ tien.) - Tho 'oll~in, .rtiçl.~. publilhed 1" en Au.tra11~ ,.psr - ·ThG -'90· - 29-3-04.

atlIIl to IIlt lM .- sl8adoar* et dIeIr 18MiIk!L ne otftctIIIs aI!o l'Gject __

u.s tUt lM npart If CIIlItœe WM1Iers - .... _ClMlllpud_· iIII laaIer __ ter WeIIInl ClIO- .. ru cil 011 co • .,..les - la r iDCOft,rUous WIIII so&liSI .... prlcclptes.

CIIiAa iii _ Jlllllhing 10 expalld its -.wer ellPOns, The Nation· DI Ctlllltl"llCliOll Ellflineerma Cor. pOf'aUoft. Wlllcll. wanls to do lKisiME witll AU5ll'Blia. is Ille iii&­ .. COIIStnIClion aUllIor'iI,II wtthin Cllilla aoâ does Ille IROR lMIaiaes5 oYeraeas. Siacc !t7f1. "'ben Chlns bqaa

Jœor expons alld COIIfradioa ClIIi. -riAl _II oveneas. Ille cor­ poratlea liai CompIeteG ~ Ifla. 3(10 prOjecIS in 50 CCMlftlrie5 and lIIpeIl COIIII'8C1S wotth aIIoul S400 millioft in local.

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ne COfJIGI'aIioII ëaa .... ovkle .ae ealire planai .... manà&cmcnl. wert&fef'ce aM e\'etI IDII4erials re­ qtdred for larJHc:aIe ptOjects. as III Il JI 75 l8itlioa deal siped ia lUlIiIcy 10 lNIIcI aa irriptioA sy9- &al Will! four bit! clams iA 1 f'84. e.t III ellV8l1y larce JIIlrt 01 Ille

~'s acUvily i5 ia lIIPPIy· lai lIIbGriIIe __ 10 COCIItrucliotl l'iras fr_ EIItope aRd Nortl! ~ .... Id operatz ia TIIInI iferld COIIIItries. To ~ ta lMIIitMI!I. die CO('.

pI)rQtioa CIaa Il braAcli offlccI ~MII~""IO atà __ lIelIIItlGB. Il Ibo l'IIAS ~Ia ~rsiJlld Irade IIIQ3c' , la ...,_ ed die UttiJed SIata5. Tbe ~ diRctar el Ille cer­

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