A-Infos (en) France, Lamouette Enragee: Places to meet for debate and discussion this summer: (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In July: The Libertarian Gatherings of Poitou
In August: The Maquis for Emancipation Gatherings
In Poitou, between July 15th and 21st:
As every year, we'll be getting together to discuss politics and have a 
good time. Because times aren't always easy, and our collective strength 
remains a strength. We warmly invite you to join us between Wednesday, 
July 15th and Tuesday, July 21st in Poitou. The exact address will be 
given to you by phone or email. The atmosphere will be that of a 
friendly, bucolic campsite, so please bring the appropriate equipment. 
We will be camping on a private, wooded property; showers and toilets 
will be outdoors.

A shared fund system will be in place. The cost of the three daily meals 
and other expenses will be based on income. Each day, teams for 
cleaning, cooking, and drinks will be freely formed - long live 
self-management! There will be two discussion sessions during the day. 
The idea is also to have pleasant and constructive exchanges during 
meals, walks, games, etc.

We can pick you up at the train stations in Poitiers, Châtellerault, or 
Montmorillon if you are arriving by train. Please let us know at least 
24 hours in advance so we can make the necessary arrangements. You can 
reach us at the following phone number: 07-84-82-44-57, and also at the 
email address oclibertaire[at]riseup.net.

Here is the discussion schedule:

Wednesday, July 15

10:30 a.m.: Open session

3:00 p.m.: Artificial Intelligence: Disruption and/or Continuity?

For several years now, AI has been presented as the great revolution of 
our time, comparable to the invention of the printing press, the steam 
engine, or the internet, and destined to radically transform work, the 
economy, society, and even our ways of thinking (E. Sadin). But behind 
the abstract term "artificial intelligence" lies a very concrete 
material reality: mines, concrete, gigantic data centers, energy 
infrastructure (whose ecological and social costs are largely 
invisible), and billions of euros in public and private investment. 
Therefore, a question arises: does AI constitute a genuine historical 
rupture, or is it merely an extension of the dynamics of industrial and 
digital capitalism?
It is a matter of examining the place of technology in our societies, 
the power relations it produces, and the world it makes possible. Does 
AI mark a turning point in the history of capitalism, or is it, on the 
contrary, just another technology, or a further step in the industrial 
transformation of capitalism, revealing its deepest logic: to 
increasingly replace living labor, extend technical control, and 
subordinate every aspect of existence to the imperatives of accumulation?

9:00 PM: Screening of Blue Collar (Paul Schrader - 1978 - USA - English 
with French subtitles - 1h54)
Blue Collar tells the story of three factory workers who work together 
in an automobile plant in the United States: racism, a tool for dividing 
the working class; exploitation, of course; but also everything that 
makes it bearable (alcohol, drugs, sex). But the real interest of this 
particularly funny film lies in raising the question of the 
proletariat's relationship to unionism, because our three companions 
have clearly understood how the union works hand in hand with the bosses 
and foremen for the smooth running of the factory. The self-proclaimed 
representatives of the workers serve only to quell conflicts and the 
pent-up rage of the workers, who fear unemployment. So, to escape this 
daily misery, an idea emerges: to go and get the money where it is: in 
the coffers... of the union.

THURSDAY 16

3 p.m.: Presentation and discussion with Nedjib Sidi Moussa, about his 
latest book, *The Specter of Colonialism*.
Nedjib Sidi Moussa, PhD in Political Science, specialist in the Algerian 
War and its repercussions in France, offers a synthesis of various 
recent texts, contemporary with the resurgence of a particularly rancid 
media and political cacophony surrounding issues of immigration, 
identity, and memory.

His thesis is as follows: to see clearly in this quagmire, and therefore 
to criticize above all the reactionary offensive whose Algerian colonial 
matrix remains the backbone, but also the false identity-based and/or 
decolonial solutions, it is necessary to revisit certain concepts, 
certain authors, revive certain ideas, and delve back into the history 
of our revolutionary political movement, without nostalgia but with rigor.

This will therefore be an opportunity to address the issues of 
anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, apostasy, anti-colonialism, and 
Third-Worldism, through the lens, as always, of a dialectical, 
anti-capitalist, and revolutionary reading of events.

9 p.m.: Head-to-head confrontation... (unique, popular, anti-fascist, etc.)
The strategy of confrontation is a tried-and-tested method on the left 
since the Third International, both for dominating competitors and for 
attempting to counter adversaries. What once resembled a tactic from the 
classical repertoire has, for the past twenty years, become a trap in 
which the only winners are those who have a vested interest in 
maintaining the system... and woe to those who cannot find their place 
in these various alliances...

Friday the 17th

3 p.m.: Energy transition, data centers, and nuclear power
Indeed, the subject is very broad. The energy transition is actually the 
name for the acceleration of the world's electrification and 
digitization, an acceleration known to only exacerbate climate change 
and the risk of extinction for many species, including our own. Data 
centers, new mines, and nuclear power plants are the flip side of this: 
gigantic extractive infrastructures that destroy the soil and consume 
enormous amounts of water and energy. As for nuclear power, it carries 
the risk of rendering vast territories uninhabitable for centuries. This 
is the material face of dematerialization. How can we oppose it? Why 
does capital cling to these projects, whose profitability is often 
uncertain? What balance of power is needed to prevent this destruction 
of the world?

Debate with members of the Stop Newcleo, Stop Golfech, and Stop Mines 03 
collectives, the Assembly for the Struggle Against Mining Projects in 
Ariège and Elsewhere, and Against the Vitry Data Center

9 p.m.: Practices and Autonomy - Is the New World Being Prepared Before 
the Revolution?
From canteen collectives to children's playgroups and food banks, many 
collectives have sprung up in recent years in support of social 
struggles. They are not formed to directly fight against a social 
condition or a useless project, but rather to provide support, offering 
specific expertise (logistics, cooking, community organizing). These 
collectives are made up of sincere people - we are among them! - who 
hope to transform the existing system, establish solidarity, and often 
contribute to creating the conditions for social struggle. At the same 
time, these initiatives strongly resemble a professionalization of 
practices, which implies a loss of autonomy for those involved in the 
struggle. The most striking effect of this specialization is the 
separation of worlds - the people who come to cook are sometimes so 
detached from the struggle they support that they don't even know what 
it's all about. Does providing tools for these struggles allow them to 
establish a balance of power more quickly or more effectively? What do 
the large activist camps of recent years allow or fail to allow? What is 
transformed in personal trajectories by participation in collectives?

Saturday 18

10:30 a.m.: Strategy and Intervention
This specifically concerns questions of strategy within social 
movements: questioning whether some elements are more important to us 
than others to emphasize and defend, or whether all are equally important.

The libertarian, anarchist-communist, class struggle movement, etc., is 
currently failing to exist politically and collectively as a significant 
autonomous force (but does it even want to, and is it desirable?), 
precisely because strategic questions (aside from repeating the eternal 
platitudes of libertarian ideology, which is undoubtedly necessary) are 
not sufficiently addressed collectively within libertarian communist 
groups or others. We have always believed that this should begin at the 
city or regional level, in any case on common ground, and not centrally, 
from the top down.

5 p.m.: What alliances in the struggles?
Recently, the temporary alliance that has sometimes linked the 
Confédération Paysanne (Peasant Confederation) and the Coordination 
Rurale (Rural Coordination) in certain regions has raised questions for 
us, given how different, even opposing, their political objectives had 
been until then. The same problem sometimes arises during a strike in 
our workplaces or within a local group on an environmental issue. Rather 
than immediately crying betrayal, as has sometimes happened, we believe 
it is necessary to revisit these questions more calmly to understand the 
issues at stake and the reasons behind them. What are our short- and 
medium-term objectives in a given situation, at a given time and place?

Free evening to party

Sunday 19th

3 p.m.: LFI: for an updated critique of social democracy
Social democracy 2.0 or old reformist refrain, electoral ploy serving a 
dinosaur of the Republic, or nebulous space amalgamating a desire for 
change among its base without defining it (revolution, communism, class 
struggle)...? Ultimately, what is LFI? What is the meaning of the 
bourgeois camp's incessant attacks against this otherwise harmless party?
Ahead of the presidential year, the Mélenchon question will inevitably - 
and unfortunately - come up in discussions at work, in life, and in 
struggles. Our critique cannot be satisfied with the simple stance of 
"LFI = social traitor," but must equip itself with updated critical 
arguments about what LFI truly is in order to be credible, heard, and to 
defend the self-organized and revolutionary perspective.

9 p.m.: Screening of Revolution 2023
We will be screening the film Revolution 2023, made by the same 
collective as Les gilets jaunes par nous (The Yellow Vests by Us), using 
archival footage of the various social struggles of the eponymous year. 
This film seems to us to be an interesting way to open up multiple 
debates on the period: the question of blockades by people "outside" the 
affected company versus strikes by the workers of that company; the 
social dynamics at work during the riots that followed Nahel's death in 
Nanterre; the prospects of the high school student struggles, which 
succeeded in dismantling all forms of control; an analysis of the 
pattern of integration of social movements into electoral politics, from 
1936, 1968, and 1995; the meaning of the punitive logic, with the 
repression of the environmental movement in Sainte-Soline; And finally 
(and most importantly), to recall a statement that seems to have faded 
in the current climate: "It is within the movement that the question of 
revolution arises."

Monday, 20th

10:30 a.m.: Courant Alternatif journal committee meeting (beginning): 
preparation of the October issue.

5:00 p.m.: Iran: geopolitical confrontation, fascist repression, and the 
manipulation of the camp.
While the situation in Iran occupies considerable media space due to its 
energy implications, the bloody nature of the Islamist regime, on the 
one hand, and the resistance taking place there, on the other, have both 
been somewhat obscured. Furthermore, the old camp rhetoric defending a 
supposed "Axis of Resistance" against Israel and the USA (which includes 
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) continues to resonate with some of those 
who are fighting, both here and elsewhere.

However, if we wish to fight against the war there, it is essential to 
have a clear understanding of both the imperialist forces and those who 
claim to be fighting them with similar means and in disregard of the 
emancipatory aspirations of the exploited. Therefore, based on an 
analysis of the situation in Iran, we will consider solidarity 
initiatives and actions against wars, armaments, and the creeping 
militarization that is spreading across the globe. Comrades familiar 
with the situation in Palestine, Rojava, Ukraine, or other current 
conflict zones are welcome to join this discussion, which will be 
moderated by Assareh Assa, an Iranian exile in France and author of 
several articles on the local situation.

Tuesday, 21st

3 p.m.: Alternative Current journal committee meeting (end) + camping 
debrief + OCL internal affairs.

In August, the Maquis Encounters for Emancipation
August 8th to 13th, 2026
The encounters are held at La Commune du Maquis, Bois-Bas, 34210 Minerve.

The program:

https://lamouetteenragee.noblogs.org/post/2026/07/10/4285/
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