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Book. How can we construction radical thought when the smoke from tear fuel canisters has dissipated? In a manifesto ebook, entitled First shocks (La Fabrique, 296 pages, 15 euros) and collectively signed Les Uprisings of the Earth, this polymorphous group makes an attempt to outline the primary political traces of a motion till now primarily oriented in the direction of motion.

The context, first: after the demonstrations towards the set up of gigantic water reservoirs in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) and the operations carried out towards cement factories, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had requested the dissolution of the group. A call subsequently canceled by the Council of State. The collective underlines this from the primary traces: “This book had every chance of being banned and trashed when we started writing it. » A work with an astonishing form, which combines an a posteriori justification of the most visible acts, an autohistory of the struggles of the Uprisings and an intellectual reflection on the radicality of social movements.

The least we can say is that the failed attempt at dissolution did not cool the ardor of the activists. From the first pages, the book explains that the movement is primarily recognized in three modes of action. First, blocking, defined as “a suspension of an infrastructure responsible for ecological devastation” – cease a building web site, for instance. THE “disarmament”offered because the “dismantling of infrastructure or construction sites which accelerates the current catastrophe”, in different phrases, sabotage. And lastly, “land occupation” – just like the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique), usually cited for example.

Radicalization of modes of motion

An necessary a part of the work additionally tells the best way by which the Uprisings step by step radicalized their modes of motion, and succeeded in drawing different activists into their wake, whether or not farmers, commerce unionists or of ecologists. The ebook particulars the battle that came about round megabasins within the Niort area. And explains how the actions of sabotage or occupation of locations weren’t essentially consensual firstly. They have step by step turn out to be so, the authors consider, within the enthusiasm of frequent protest but in addition within the face of repression.

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“We did not anticipate the unprecedented scale of the fire that fell on us that day”acknowledge the activists in regards to the clashes in Sainte-Soline. “Tactically, we’re defeated. Politically, a thousand questions come up. Obviously, it's laborious.”additional analyze The Uprisings, which go into element within the debates of the motion after these occasions.

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