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Monday 29 June 2009

EVERYWHERE AS WELL AS IN TEHERAN : AGAINST the UNLAWFUL POWER, SOCIAL REVOLUTION !

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id...
002.jpgThe dominant ideology, that is of the Power, want us to believe by force that electoral democracy would be the highest expression of popular sovereignty, that elections would give the Power its legitimacy.

However, the Iranians have just made this lie burst. The Iranian elections, such as all the elections, are only a joke. Elections are acceptable for the Power only when they go in its interests. People can give their voice as long as they say what the Power desire them to say. When it is no longer the case, the Power uses all the means at its disposal, any frauds and subterfuges, to keep its dominant position. Elections are only an alibi for the Power. In Iran, it is a result declared to the opposite of reality. In Europe since 2005, the Power has reiterated ballots until the results to the referendum were in conformity with the Power’s expectations (and even some time it passes directly its projects without new electoral play...).

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Sunday 24 May 2009

If Voting could Change the System . . . the libertarian case for direct democracy

-> http://www.direct-action.org.uk/doc...

Politics is the art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli

direct action iwaOne of the defining tenets setting libertarian socialism apart from authoritarian political traditions of both left and right, is an unshirking commitment to the principles of direct democracy. This is the means advocated by anarchists for exercising and enabling genuinely participative decision making in all domains of human life. Rejecting hierarchical organisation, we argue that both parliamentary “democracy” and totalitarianism have the same intensions – to maintain the distinction between leaders and led, rulers and ruled. Both, in the final analysis, are designed to ensure our passive acceptance of a system that oppresses us.

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Wednesday 20 May 2009

élection parasitaire et action antiparasitaire

-> http://parasitique.over-blog.com/ar...
abstention parasiteUn parasite est un être qui vit aux dépends des autres, au dépend d'un hôte. Il peut se renforcer (et affaiblir son hôte) en pompant le travail, la voix et la vie de son hôte, grâce à un éperon et une poche de stockage. Tout naturellement, afin de retrouver sa liberté, l'hôte tente de se débarrasser du parasite, mais ce dernier est constitué d'organes faisant le nécessaire pour soumettre, de gré ou de force, l'hôte sous son autorité. Il peut notamment utiliser son éperon pour lui injecter un poison toxico-dépendant, imposant et suggérant à l'hôte une relation de dépendance envers le parasite. L'acceptation de cette dépendance de l'hôte s'exprime sous diverses formes, dont le sacrifice au travail, les cérémonies spectaculaires, les priéres en isoloirs... le parasite a pris divers prétextes pour s'imposer... Aujourd'hui, pour la facilité, il a pris le prétexte démocratique.

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Sunday 12 April 2009

Abstention active !

traduction de http://blog.jeveuxarreterdevoter.in...
ne payons pas ne votons pasEt ça continue, après quatre années de fausses promesses, de sourires forcés et de caresses des enfants, le triste spectacle de la démocratie, une démocratie dans laquelle quelques-uns ont le droit de faire et de défaire et de disposer de ce que les autres peuvent ou ne peuvent pas faire.

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Thursday 26 April 2007

L’alternance gauche/droite : il faut bien que ça serve à quelque chose...

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id...
L’objet de ce texte n’est pas de dresser une énième liste des méfaits des pouvoirs successifs de gauche ou de droite, mais plutôt la mise en lumière du bénéfice que peut tirer le capitalisme des alternances politiques.

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Wednesday 14 February 2007

ELECTIONS EN VUE

-> http://www.cntaittoulouse.lautre.ne...
A la veille des élections, médias et politiciens nous disent qu’il est important de voter, que le vote serait une solution aux problèmes actuels. Pourtant, ils nous répètent aussi (quand cela les arrange) que les problèmes économiques sont d’ordre mondial et qu’ils n’y peuvent rien !

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Saturday 2 April 2005

projet de traité constitutionnel européen

-> http://farennes.free.fr/europe.htm
Les rendez-vous électoraux rythment désormais de plus en plus lourdement la vie politique : sitôt une élection passée, la multiplicité des candidatures, deux, trois, voire quatre ans en avance ainsi que les luttes fratricides dans les partis candidats au pouvoir achèvent de décrédibiliser une classe politique totalement coupée des préoccupations et des aspirations réelles des peuples et des individus.

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Thursday 4 March 2004

Bush Or Kerry ? Look Closely And The Danger Is The Same

-> http://news.infoshop.org/article.ph...
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offersa world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.

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Fédéralisme contre démocratie

-> http://ml.federation-anarchiste.org...
Les anarchistes ne présentent pas de candidats aux élections et, en principe, ne votent pas. C’est un truisme de l’écrire ici. Les raisons immédiates - et très valables - en sont souvent évoquées : rejet des politiciens, de leurs partis et de leurs fausses promesses, refus de « cautionner » le système existant, etc. Ce sont des positions morales, en ce qu’elles tiennent à la dignité de l’abstentionniste principalement, plus qu’à une intervention pratique sur le devenir du monde.

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Wednesday 25 February 2004

JUST DON’T VOTE - A CALL TO ACTION

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id_article=924
fuck the vote We are calling for a national campaign to take advantage of this election year to emphasize the power of direct action and to present direct democracy as a viable alternative to representation. This campaign will include literature distribution, postering and stickering, demonstrations, educational events, and other forms of community outreach, both in our own communities and around the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It will culminate in a nationwide day of direct action on November 2, election day.

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Sunday 25 January 2004

A brief history of the Democrats

-> http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticl...
"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic." --Gore Vidal

My first day back to the NYC commute after spending a week in Santa Cruz serving as MC for One Dance: The People's Summit was something out of a hackneyed Hollywood script. As I tried to enter the N Train, hordes of passengers were de-boarding. Being five stops away from Manhattan, I knew those folks were not really getting off the train. That's when the savvy commuter glances into the train for a look and immediately notices a homeless man sleeping in the corner. I didn't even have to enter the car to fill in the blanks. The homeless man must have been, uh, malodorous. I dashed to the next car (with everyone else) and crammed myself in...surrounded by New Yorkers puffed up to double their normal size in winter gear. Standing close enough to my fellow plebeians to smell the bad breath, the toxic perfumes, and the embedded stench of cigarettes, I tried to think about California and One Dance (http://www.onedancesummit.org).

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Saturday 24 January 2004

Making history or just repeating it ?

-> http://news.infoshop.org/article.ph...

Karl Marx once wrote that history repeated itself, first time as tragedy, second time as farce. The left in Britain seem intent on proving him right. How else can we explain the attempts to create yet anothernew party to challenge New Labour at the polls?

It is like 1997 has been decreed as year zero for Marxists. The history of the labour movement is happily ignored while the SWP and assorted other sects repeat the tactics which worked so unsuccessfully in the past. Blair did not appear from nowhere. He is just the latest in a long line of Labour politicians who, upon gaining office in the capitalist state, promoted capitalist policies.

This is not surprising. The state is the instrument by which minority classes use to maintain their power and privileges. It can never used to destroy them. What is surprising is that Marxists seem to forget this, urging us to vote for radicals at election time and get outraged when they defend the interests of the few rather than the many.

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Friday 19 April 2002

ELECTRICES, ELECTEURS ! [Tract]

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id_article=306
comité politicard - Publicité -

Françaises, Français,

Européennes, Européens,

Citoyennes, Citoyens,

Madame, Monsieur,

et surtout ...

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Thursday 1 February 2001

Parliament or democracy?

-> http://struggle.ws/once/pd_chap9.ht...
Throughout history there has been an alternative idea of democracy - this is the idea of direct democracy. It surfaced during the Paris Commune (in 1871), it surfaced in Russia during the early part of the revolution there, and it was put into large-scale practice in Spain between 1936-37. It is the method often used by workers in a strike; it is the method that often arises 'spontaneously' when people confront the State or the bosses. Direct democracy is the democracy that anarchists advocate.

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Friday 3 December 1999

Electoral politics "is a shell game;' don't vote

-> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...
IN MY neighborhood, the Mission, many tenants, working people, desperate housing activists and even a few self-styled anarchists are elated by Tom Ammiano's surprisingly strong showing in the Nov. 2 election.

Ammiano's popularity is clearly a function of The City's catastrophic housing crisis. When compared to Downtown Willie Brown, Ammiano appears to be a pro-tenant candidate and a friend of working people. Ammiano has even pledged that as mayor he'll declare an all-out war against gentrification, which is destroying the unique character of this city.

By all accounts Ammiano is a decent human being, especially when compared to the other mayoral candidates in the November election. He is also an excellent stand-up comedian.

But working and poor people who trust Ammiano in particular and electoral politics in general operate under a staggering number of illusions. As a Democratic Party politician, Ammiano is not an ally of working and poor people.

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Friday 16 April 1999

The Anarchist Case Against Clinton, Gore, and the Democratic Party

-> http://www.infoshop.org/againstclin...

With the Bill Clinton adiministration drawing to a close, it should be painfully obvious that Clinton, Al Gore, and the Democratic Party are no different than the Republicans. We find it amazing that many progressives have recently come to Gore's defense during his campaign. They aren't defending him from George Bush, rather the Nader campaign.

Your webmaster predicted back during the 1992 Presidential race that under a Clinton administration, human rights would be violated around the world, the police state would increase, censorship would increase, the pace that the environment is being ruined would remain the same, and that Bill Clinton is, above all else, a friend of capitalists and an enemy of labor.

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Thursday 1 January 1998

Anarchists, elections and democracy

-> http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws...
about "http://blog.jeveuxarreterdevoter.in..." from Kevin Doyle.

A spectre (to paraphrase Karl Marx) was haunting the ruling class of most European countries in the aftermath of the French revolution in 1798. That spectre was democracy. The "problem with democracy" was that if it was conceded then the ordinary poor people, being much more numerous than their rulers, would surely swamp them.

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Wednesday 2 April 1997

If voting changed anything...it would be illegal

-> http://www.spunk.org/library/pubs/w...
The 'Payments to Politicians' Tribunal is just the latest in a long line of examples (the Beef Tribunal, the tax amnesties...) that show just how deep in the pockets of the bosses our government really is. It's not just Ireland. All over the world politicians are found to be corrupt, while others tell you that, of course, they receive large sums of money from business, but, naturally, this doesn't effect their judgement in the slightest. What did we do to deserve this.

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Tuesday 1 September 1992

Voting Anarchists: An Oxymoron or What?

-> http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/b...
While historically anarchists assiduously avoided any involvement with electoral politics, in more recent times, at least in the united states, some anarchists have advocated voting. The arguments these voting anarchists put forward are generally the same as those put forward by other leftists who are unable or unwilling to completely sever their connection to the political process. They argue that voting for their candidate, usually described as a lesser evil and usually (if not always) a Democrat, is necessary to prevent united states aggression against some favored revolutionary state (like sandinista nicaragua), is some sort of self-defense against the more conservative candidate, or is merely better than "apathy," as some describe abstention from voting. While one could argue against voting simply because it rarely, if ever, accomplishes any of the goals its advocates claim it can, there is a more fundamental reason for anarchists to oppose voting: voting in government elections is an inherently authoritarian activity, and authoritarian means never yield libertarian results.

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Wednesday 15 March 1978

La situation française en mars 1978

-> http://www.la-presse-anarchiste.net...
Élections toujours pièges à con Nous n’allons pas développer encore une fois l’argumentation anarchiste contre les élections ;avant de passer au contexte dans lequel va se dérouler la consultation de mars 1978, nous voulons simplement rappeler deux choses.

La première, c’est que si le poids de nos arguments (qui ont démontré d’innombrables fois l’inefficacité du suffrage universel pour déloger la classe dominante) n’était pas suffisant, il y a l’expérience vécue d’élections nationales et de référendums qui n’ont rien changé que les apparences, et donné l’illusion, savamment entretenue, que les maigres conquêtes obtenues grâce à la pression des rues et des usines étaient le fruit d’un nombre suffisant de votes.

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