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April 2006 in Paris, a bumper season for nostalgic Situationists
'To People in Other Countries
†
'Your newspapers and televisions and radios describe us as spoiled brats who are foolishly rejecting the 'necessary changes' decreed by the kings of the so-called 'free-enterprise' economy.
In reality, we are fighting against a law aimed at totally destroying the rights of working people, rights won long ago through the struggles of our ancestors. We are fighting against a law enabling bosses to fire us at any moment without justification or compensation. We are fighting against the so-called modernization currently being implemented by most governments, a 'modernization' designed to take us back to the conditions of near slavery suffered by workers and unemployed people in the nineteenth century before the proletarian movement succeeded in imposing a certain number of social reforms.
In so doing, we are fighting not only for ourselves and our children, but for the well-being and dignity of all humanity.
Don't believe the caricatural image of us presented in your mass media. Challenge it.
They are upset by what we are doing because they are afraid it might give you ideas. They're afraid that you might end up rebelling like we are. And they're right, because we’re all in the same boat.
We refuse to stand by while this boat is capsized by the present rulers of the world, whose never-ending accumulation of money reduces more and more people to poverty and misery. We are mutineers against those destructive captains, trying to turn the boat toward a better world.
Support us. Join us.
A GROUP OF FRENCH STRIKERS?(Saint-Nazaire,†3 April 2006)
