European assembly, Global Meeting - March 31st 2007. A proposal

Global Meeting - March 31st 2007 h.15.00
CSO Rivolta – Marghera Venice

A proposal

We would like to discuss about Europe. To us, talking about Europe today means at the same time to investigate over a rather important form of global capitalistic dominion, which we call by the name of Empire, and of multitude’s constituent struggles.
Europe plays a fundamental role in the multilateral definition of imperial command. This comes next to the defeat of US attempt of creating a North American “monarchy” through permanent global war. By this we are not stating that war is over thanks to multilateralism and global governance. It actually works out to be the exact opposite. War is everyday more and more connected to the imperial side of global politics. And therefore war is defined as an operation of multinational police.
Iraqi resistance against occupation defeated US strategies. And in Afghanistan there are great difficulties as well. Here Europe is fully protagonist. And here global police cannot easily access to control. Control and command, though, are the goals of global police. Which does not serve peace objectives but capitalism’ exploitation’s through out the world.
We believe that things have dramatically changed. European constitution is not anymore central. Dynamics such as “national states versus EU” and “EU including national states” are over. They are not anymore central to political debate. Europe has become factual, it of course is still developing itself but its role within Empire is everyday more evident. A proof of this is the fact that EU countries are conforming their laws to common standards, from UK to Italy.
Europe as a state is a biopolitical fortress, a metropolitan regime of control and command. Europe is the core of multinational capitalism and of exploitation of social cooperation. Europe is the privileged area of technocratic bourgeois that continuously attacks post-fordistic proletariat. This is a fact. And we suggest starting right from here in the building of a new discussion upon and inside movements.
We also believe that European movements are today real.
They could organise themselves to become a powerful “transnational” force. Proletariat has today new forms. They are the forms of precarious casual temp workers. This regards industries workers, specialised workers, students and immigrants. All of them are communed by the same opposition to global war and to powers that try to control every single moment of citizens’ lives. Well, this signifies the building of a European antagonistic strength that today can activate processes of constituent exodus. We, by that, refer to the separation from dominion, to the constitution of “other” forms of life, of production, of society.
Left wing parties’ reformist option is outdated. Official leftist parties say that changes can be reached through institutions. Such nonsense! The autonomy of precarious workers, self-management, citizenship’s rights, new institutions born right from multitude seem to us possible. They come from the desire of freedom and richness. They are direct application of European multitude’s conflicts.
We also think that autonomous social centres are nowadays central within European conflicts. The Copenhagen revolt, for instance, shows it. Everybody judges Denmark’s welfare highly advanced… even in police control… The resistance against the demolition of Ungdomshuset, anyway, proved that social centres are not only places of resistance and of culture production. They are commonwealth. They centre the organisation of the new metropolitan proletariat. They organise and produce commons that radiate to thousand other centres of resistance. They define new forms of life.
Last but not least, few words about G8 mobilisations next June in Rostock (Germany). They could be an important moment. European movements could link up to some issues such as antiracism, antifascism and anticapitalism.
Multitude’s indignation may come out in many forms.
But Rostock may together develop a strong network based upon sisterly/brotherly relations among those that everyday fight in the name of commons, income and joy.

... See you on the barricades...