For this opportunity, everything activisme produces all around the world will converge for the traditional lamentation course. The protest folklore will be stumbling on gathering for pronouncing their traditional grievances. After ten years of alter-globalism, the picture isn’t shiny, in three words: paralysis is complete.

Even though the last ten years presented an accumulation of reasons for revolt, the activist desolation is followed by an intellectual desert. Let’s face the facts: the “alternativism” can’t be a response to the crisis. Besides the fact that they integrate management criteria of those responsible for the disaster, the alter-globalists are, strictly spoken, not opposed to world governance. A world trade organisation with a human face wouldn’t bother them fundamentally. They act as a conciliation force in today’s society. Union sectors are participating in social appeasement; the political sectors are the democratic caution of the system, the “healthy opposition”.

The unions, the left-wing parties and the NGO milieu are in something one could call a social partnership with the state. Welfare payments and other subsidies the rich are consenting are part of social appeasement measures destroying every form of contestation. We are well drilled to lead our little anaesthetized lives. The “left” is making itself co-administrator of the crisis, it’s in sum a sort of permanent counter-revolution against any possibility of emancipation.

In opposition to this, a ghost is haunting Europe: autonomy. It seems evident: since Genova, Rostock, Strasburg, alter-globalism is blowing itself while the radical movement is growing constantly. The point is that we are not seeking to do, episodically, spectacular interventions meant to be useful in a negotiation. On the contrary, we are party in the generalised and constant war the State and the Capital is leading against the poor and the exploited. We are evolving every day in a war environment, a diffuse war in which each individual is an actor and a victim. Accepting the pacification lead by the co-administrators, by the left, means accepting our helplessness. We must break with the established order: no talks, no claims. The old world can only be smashed up. Fighting it in order not to fall; not escaping it, but facing it in order not to be subjected to it anymore.

We are calling for massive participation in the big demonstration at Geneva the 28th of november and we will try to stop the WTO machine. A convergence center will be installed from the 27th of November to the 2nd of December, as well as sleeping places, a medical aid service, an independent media center and a legal support.

Beyond immediate considerations, this convergence should outline a new power balance on an international level. In the idea of a growing organisation among radical groups all over Europe and elsewhere and of erasing the real separation between theory and practice, we invite you to share your knowledge, networks and contacts within an autonomy forum Sunday 29th of November.