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An action plan to liberate us massively from the actual system

We are rebelling against the old world; we are declaring that the civilization of unused private property is a shipwreck. We are announcing the beginning of a new era of the right to use, of an economy of common goods and resources. On September 17th, 2009, after a few months of transition, we will begin to live without capitalism.

After the arguments explained on articles in pages 4 and 5, we proceed in these central pages with details on how we will start, not by words but by facts, to live in such a way that it shall constitute a new paradigm of society. Before going into more details, we will star with an introduction to the social context.

Context in order to choose how we mobilise

Thinking about mobilisations in this crisis context and its unfavourable situation for so many working people and small businesses, a lot of us look up towards the labour unions waiting for the key word. And the word that can put pressure on the government on behalf of popular classes is not other than general strike. But, after thinking about the labour unions, we have to notice what is happening nowadays in the labour market as well as in the social and communications structures. For instance:

• Workers of major enterprises, and in the industrial area, have reduced in favour of the service area and the displacement towards other countries. When we think of a working place, more and more what we have in mind is an office rather than a factory.
• Indefinite work contracts are being reduced. There is much more displacements among enterprises, much more temporary jobs and independent workers on their own behalf.
• The leaders of big labour unions have integrated themselves into the structures of power, so they would not mobilise unless the situations become impossible to overlook and can make them loose credibility within their own structure, and for very specific demands.

Since what we look for are actions that can have a real force, we understand the general strike as a pressure mean consisting in stopping the economy of the country, not merely being absent from the job. That is why, at the end, it is not so important if workers in big enterprises go to work those days or not, as much as their suppliers can serve their orders or cannot, because routes would be closed. This is well known by the Argentinean pickets who succeeded in blocking the city of Buenos Aires with a social base of unemployed workers specialized in road block off.

There are 22 million active persons in the Spanish state, of which, more than 3 millions are unemployed (and increasing daily…), another more than 3 millions work on their own, and 11 millions are employed indefinitely. The remaining 5 millions are employers/business people, cooperativists, and temporary labour. (Please excuse the frequent references to the state; it is just to facilitate information in relation to other territories.

It is very important to have in mind that at this moment there are many other people that could mobilise, as well as employed workers. If a general strike gets to be organized with the true goal that this crisis be paid by the rich, maybe a lot of these people would mobilise. Under the present circumstances, we believe that it is completely possible to summon a strong general strike without the big labour unions, if it is organized in time and we really believe in our action. This said, at the same time we think that in the context of the systemic crisis, a general strike is not enough. The great and main action to perform is put a start to a new way of living that will take out capitalism from our lives, in order that gradually it will leave every people’s lives.

Thus, if a general strike is summoned by spirited labour unions and social movements, we encourage every one to support it. However, from this publication we exhort to go further.