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Colectivo Entránsito, "¡Viva San Precario!"¡Viva San Precario! 1> Yes, we can! Determination and construction of a post-identitary common sense It is no comfortable to inhabit a territory where the big truths are falling down to pieces, where impotency, conformism and fear are 2> New political animals: flexgeneration -"Not a single worker in here. We should have gone with the Unions. This is a 'botellón' (spanish term for young meetings to drink alcohol in the streets)!"- shouted indignant a union mate. -"Behave yourself, fuck! This is no demonstration, this is a 'puterío' (disrespective Spanish term for sex work)!"- cried an overflowed policeman. The composition and the way of being-in in a demonstration left many perplexed. All those fierce-looking people, that music, those Today the soundsystem, the beats, the dj´s and the "speakers" are to the new generations what country orchestras, the bass drums, the noisy tracks and the megaphone were for the former ones. It would be a bit absurd to maintain that expressive forms, communicative codes, the "ways of feeling" and even the "class aesthetics" would remain the same throughout the history.3> Expressive richness of the rebel "precariat" We understand the communication as raw material for politics. The How many times have we realize the sadness and disaffection that provoke in us those 1st of May demonstrations empty of strength, imagination and conflict? The MayDayParade breaks for one day the circulation-consume metropolitan meaning field to turn it upside down. Going through the streets collectively, joyfully and powerfully, stoping the traffic, pointing out together at the places of the precarious city while we shout: Here we are! We are invisible but we are making the world! We are invisible but we don´t want to be so anymore! 4> Eurovision It´s impossible not to admit that the EuroMayDay 2005 mobilized 200.000 people in 20 european cities, therefore it appears as obvious that we are becoming a part of the irruption of a powerful network of movements that encompasses the whole continent. In the face of the post-Genoa situation, the crisis of "contrasummits" and the social forums, the process of euromayday launches an strategic project of political construction. And this is so because the precarization is the central issue in the Europe actually exists, it´s a territory of concrete and open conflict. It´s clear that the constituion model of the Europe of the powerful goes through a deep crisis. Anyway, for this crisis not to derive into a nationalist, conservative and racist turn we are in need of an european movement that is able to go beyond "No", to articulate a program of concrete demands, a process of mobilization that gets Europe out of this dead-end road, restrains the neoliberal offensive and leads Europe towards a horizon of freedom. What we are talking about is the antagonist The political movement space, far from the orchestrated and empty fiction of a Europe "from upside' with its constitutional pantomime, and also far from those leftists who intend to defend themselves from globalization by entrenching themselves in State-nation forms, that very movement wants to get politics far beyond this. Situated in the emerging of the subjective figures that, in the last years, have revolted throughout the continent against the permanent global war, the illegitimacy of the new global institutions, the precarization of the existence, the borders regime and the reduction of social rights and digital freedom. 5>Invisibles from the south. When we set into motion this MayDaySur project, we had clear that both the event and the process would help us composing a network and connections space that would go beyond one or two cities. We believe that these events can work as "accelerators" of cooperation and collective work processes among different movements. Although our movements act on a "local" or "metropolitan" ground, the MayDaySur invites us to consider the whole region of Andalucía as our "theatre of operations". We inhabit similar territories together with precarious mates from Málaga, Huelva, Granada, Córdoba and Jerez that attended the parade in Seville and also with our migrant brothers and sisters in Almería, also participant of the process. We propose to think about the 1st of May in Seville as a partial After years of effort and collective work, we are beginning to glimpse the gestation of participative and autonomous organization spaces able to see each other as unyielding in a common project: the battle against 6> Next stop... The most important matter now is to keep walking, learning from what we have done and designing the following steps of this experiment. We all seem to agree in the importance of going beyond the event MaydaySur, in giving consistency and richness to this new political space we are inaugurating. A virtuous dynamics of investigation, cooperation and action against the precarization of existence. A laboratory that is open to the new precarious constellations and that brings together the best of the "base unions" and the social movements of our generation. In this sense, we can imagine "intervention programs" that we deem central for the continuity of this experiment: - To investigate the subjective background and the everydaylife und underground fighting fashions of the "precariat" in order to communicate and strengthen them. We keep walking. |
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