Undermining Fortress
19-25 July 1997
Brioude, France
This year's Fourth International youth camp is hosted by the French group JCR-RED in the Haute-Loire region, near the Mediterranean coast.
Over 600 young people from all parts of Europe will come together to exchange their experiences, discuss the social and political struggles in their countries, and to identify the possibilities for co-ordinated international struggle against the capitalist system.
Through our campaigns and struggles, we must show the way to build another Europe, respecting the interests of working people, youth, women and immigrants.
We will share our experiences of the struggle against the Debré immigration laws in France, the international protest of Renault workers against the closure of the Vilvorde plant, the recent mobilisation of university students in Portugal and high school students in Luxemburg, anti-fascist activities, opposition to nuclear power.
We will also discuss the European marches against unemployment, exclusion and precarity, in which participants. from all countries will have participated.
We will also discuss European solidarity with those fighting the imperialist system elsewhere, particularly the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas.
As well as our current struggles, we will also discuss our project for a better society, the need to be a revolutionary today, and how to organise so as to bring about the changes we want.
But this camp is more than all that. For one short week, we will try to unite leisure, politics, and celebration. At this event, doing politics is also experimenting with a new way of life. Trying to put our ideas into practice. This is why the camp is self-managed (participants elect country representatives, who together form the camp co-ordination group). The camp is self managed because we want to create a whole self-managed society, in which everyone can part in decisions which concern them. The other aspect of our 'community' is the rejection of all forms of exploitation and expression present in the wider society. The aim is to make the camp a place free of sexism, homophobia, and economic inequality.
Each day will have two parts: a morning forum on a general theme, and a choice of afternoon workshops. As in previous years, dedicated women's and esbian and gay 'spaces' will be a focus for ongoing discussions and activities.
The evening cultural programme includes videos, a nightly discotheque, and a special meeting on Che Guevara.
A week of encounters and debates, in the framework of the struggle for a society free of sexism and exploitation, and in a warm, celebratory climate. Register now, for Europe's largest international revolutionary festival! 20 International Viewpoint
Europe
Saturday 19th opening torun • The political situation France (Alair Krivine of the LCR) • Why Europe as a central theme? (JCR speaker) • The Fourth International: the Europe we're fighting for Sunday 20 : "Against the Europe of injustice, the Europe of resistance" • Maastricht EU: against young people • Fighting against unemployment • Student struggles in Portugal Workshops
Educational policies in Europe • cutting the working week • the struggle in Renault Belgium • Information, new technology and the reorganisation of the labour market • AIDS and health policies • "Pro-capitalist" changes in the Eastern European countries • Albania. Monday 21: Racism, fascism, moral order, no pasaran! • The far right and the new moral order • The Schengen agreement • The "sans-papiers" in France Workshops
Local government by the far right • Workshops Fascism in Germany. Germany • Far right in the student movement • Racism against gypsies • Drugs and repressive policies in Europe • Struggles of lesbians and gays. Tuesday 22: Women in the eye of the storm • Attacks on women's rights • Women and public life • Hearings for women's rights in France. Workshops
The right to choose • Women's rights in Poland since 1989 • Women in Algeria. • Sexual exploitation and capitalist crisis • Men and feminism • Cultural relativism and imperialism
AQUILA-VIT
Wednesday 23
Workshops
May 1968, re-foundation of the Fourth
International (by Alain Krivine • Experiences of youth movement recomposition • mass consumption and the creation of new needs • Genetics, biotechnology and bio industries • The
"white crisis" in Belgium • Repression against Kurds in Germany.
Thursday 24: Do away with this society
• The crisis of capitalism - the need for revolution.
• Ecological crisis
• The society we want (Daniel Bensaïd)
Friday 25 : How to be a revolutionary?
• What type of organisation?
• Internationalism
Educational meetings
• Fascism, today and vesterday
• The Russian Revolution of October
1917. (Daniel Bensaïd)
• Exploitation of the Third World, the
African example
• Che Guevara. (Janette Habel)
• Current struggles in Latin America, particularly Chiapas
Women's assemblies
• Sexualities
• Violence against women
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This world-wide network makes it possible to look beyond national preoccupations, and grasp the regional and global dynamics. We all learn in
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