A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #343 - BOOM!! - The rejection of the 2024 Olympics has sparked the "Saccage 24" initiative (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The rejection of the 2024 Olympics has sparked the "Saccage 24" 
initiative described in this issue. ---- But other actions, such as the 
sabotage of public infrastructure, have been committed in France. The 
following leaflet, published online, claims responsibility for the 
action on the eve of the inauguration of the Games, against the railway 
lines serving Paris, impacting 400,000 passengers. We are forwarding 
---- Claim of sabotage of TGV lines a few hours before the opening 
ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ---- They call this a party? We 
see it as a celebration of nationalism, a gigantic staging of the 
subjugation of populations by States.
Under a playful and friendly air, the Olympic Games offer a field of 
experimentation for the police management of crowds and the generalized 
control of our movements.
Like any major sporting event, they are also each time an opportunity to 
worship the values that found the world of power and money, to 
generalized competition, to performance at all costs, to sacrifice for 
the interest and national glory.
The injunction to identify with an imaginary community and to support 
one's supposed camp of belonging is no less harmful than the permanent 
incitement to see one's salvation in the good health of one's national 
economy and in the power of one's national army.
Today, it takes ever greater doses of bad faith and denial not to see 
all the horror generated by the consumer society and the pursuit of 
so-called "Western well-being".
France would like to make this great mass the showcase of its 
excellence. It will only be able to delude itself about its virtuous 
role on those who have decided to put blinkers on themselves, and who 
are comfortable with it.
We address our deepest contempt to them.
France's influence is based on the production of weapons, the sales 
volume of which places it as the second largest exporter in the world. 
The State is proud of its military-industrial complex and its "made in 
France" arsenal. Spreading the means of terror, death and devastation 
throughout the world to ensure its prosperity? Cock-a-doodle-doo!
With all due respect to the gullible who still believe in democratic 
fables, the French State also uses its repressive panoply to confront 
its own population. To quell the riots after the murder of Nahel by the 
police in June 2023 or to try to stop the anti-colonial uprising in 
Kanaky recently. As long as it exists, the State will not stop putting 
it to work to fight those who challenge its authority.
The activities of French companies throughout the world make ever more 
evident the social and environmental devastation produced by the 
capitalist system. Those necessary to reproduce the current social 
organization, and those inherent in scientific and technological 
progress. Progress that only perceives the chain of past, present and 
future catastrophes as an opportunity for a leap forward.
Total continues the pillage and dispossession of new lands in search of 
oil and shale gas (East Africa, Argentina, etc.).
Under cover of its new green label, the nuclear industry and the export 
of French know-how in this area assure us, in the more or less short 
term, an irradiated planet, therefore literally uninhabitable. Nothing 
more than one more crisis to manage for the promoters of the atom. They 
who cannot do without their cooperation with the Russian state through 
its giant Rosatom and the support of its army to crush the uprising in 
Kazakhstan in 2022, a major supplier of uranium. This mineral that 
powers the 58 reactors in France.
So, what is the human, social and environmental cost for a few 
privileged people to travel quickly and far by TGV? Infinitely too much.
The railway is not a trivial infrastructure. It has always been a means 
for the colonization of new territories, a prerequisite for their 
devastation and a clear path for the extension of capitalism and state 
control. The construction of the line called "Tren Maya" in Mexico, in 
which Alstom and NGE are collaborating, is a good illustration of this.
And the electric batteries essential to the so-called "energy 
transition"? Talk about it, for example, to the workers of the Bou-azeer 
mine and to the inhabitants of the oases of this Moroccan region who are 
paying the price for this 21st century gold rush. Renault extracts the 
minerals needed to give a good conscience to the ecologists of the 
metropolises on the backs of sacrificed lives. Talk about it to this 
"forest people" of the island of Halmahera in the northeast of 
Indonesia, to the Hongana Manyawa who despair of seeing the forest where 
they live being destroyed on the altar of the "ecological transition". 
The French State, via the Eramet company, is participating in the 
ravages of lands that have been spared until now. Similarly, it does not 
want to let go of the Melanesian Rock to continue to extract the 
precious nickel.
We will stop here in the impossible inventory of the deadly and 
predatory activities specific to any State and any capitalist economy. 
This would not be of any help in breaking with a dull and depressing 
life, with a life of exploitation, and in confronting the violence of 
States and religious leaders, heads of families and police patrols, 
patriots and employer militias, as much as that of shareholders, 
entrepreneurs, engineers, planners and architects of the ongoing ravages.
Fortunately, the arrogance of power continues to clash with the anger of 
the oppressed rebels. From riots to insurrection, during offensive 
demonstrations and uprisings, through daily struggles and underground 
resistance.
May on this day then resound, through the sabotage of the TGV lines 
linking Paris to the four corners of France, the cries of "woman, life, 
freedom" from Iran, the struggles of the Amazonians, the "fuck France" 
coming from Oceania, the desires for freedom that reach us from the 
Levant and Sudan, the fights that continue behind prison walls and the 
insubordination of deserters from all over the world.
To those who blame these acts for spoiling the stay of tourists or 
disrupting vacation departures, we respond that it is still so little. 
So little compared to this event in which we wish to participate and 
which we call for with all our hearts: the fall of a world based on 
exploitation and domination. Then yes, we will have something to celebrate.

An unexpected delegation

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