Pending the complete reprint of Writings of Jacques Rigaut (by Gallimard or another editor), the editions Railway us suggest that of Lord Patchogue in its most complete with illustrations and an afterword. In all good bookstores, before the next book fair.
ICAPP THE FIRST TO THE CONQUEST OF MARCH É INT É INTERIOR
Saturday, January 29, 2009, the ICAPP, Initiative Committee for alternative political project, invited the press room, Remy Nainsouta at Pointe-à-Pitre, to present his DRAFT STATUTE FOR THE EVOLUTION GUADELOUPE. Despite having benefited from previous regional elections to be known, we can say that the event Saturday was the true founding principle of this new party, led by Alain LKPiste Pleasure, which has made its new office developments hobbyhorse.
deadlock
In the preamble to the draft the ICAPP provides some figures on the status of production Guadeloupe, which show the impasse in which we arrived. Thus we learn that the production of bananas in 1978 amounted to 145 000 tonnes, is now reduced to 50,000 tonnes, and similarly, it produces only 50,000 tonnes of sugar, while production in 1967 exceeded the 185 000 tonnes of fish production covers only 50% of our needs, because "imports encouraged by free trade and dumping." No indicator suggests that in the present state of things, this trend could be reversed, like the 39 000 hectares of farmland disappear fast pace of 1000 hectares per year. Another key sector in Guadeloupe, tourism has seen the number of its hotels decrease by 20% in five years. The result of this economic collapse: a dizzying rate for unemployment particularly affecting 40% of those under 30 years!
Free trade is the law of the jungle
Many people consider the current situation intolerable and share reviews developed by the left parties but see no serious alternative to the current system. All credit is the ICAPP have developed a real political and economic agenda based on sound knowledge of both the local reality of Guadeloupe and French and European legal texts.
Thus the Cippa hand to "conquer the market," to borrow the title of the book of Alain Pleasure, published in 2008 editions Nestor. For the ICAPP, Guadeloupe, which for its consumption, is now dependent on more than 80% of imports, has no choice, she must leave the European framework. This is especially true if it wants access to food sovereignty. Do not see this as a sign of a downturn Guadeloupe but the quest for what should be a priority for all people, whatever. On the food, the ICAPP has therefore proposed leaving the European framework asphyxiation Guadeloupe, boost economic activity in agriculture, ensure reasonable prices to consumers, dignified wages for farmers, preserve farmland, create a food industry for the conversion of some of our products and preserve the environment. Everyone understands that this is actually not possible in a system of free trade where small Guadeloupe have any protection for the same customs status as 27 European countries some heavily industrialized, others the cost of labor very low. The ICAPP is proposing to create a common market with Martinique and French Guiana and adopt a "tariff Guadeloupe" which in each case, surcharge or not imported products to protect production Local [1] .
Heaven protectionists!
It is therefore clearly of protectionism, a word that had almost become a dirty word but that appears to countries such as Guadeloupe, an unavoidable necessity. It's a bit, if we take the example of boxing, as if were allowed to fight on the same ring, with a weight of a truck, an adult against a child under the pretext that to establish categories distort the game ... We immediately understood the absurdity of such reasoning. In the text presented Saturday morning, the ICAPP also exploring other avenues of development, such as the conquest of energy independence with renewable energy development, exploitation of mineral and biological resources of the sea, the real wealth tomorrow with no shortage of Guadeloupe, the launch of a capital works program, the pulse of domestic tourism which would benefit Guadeloupe through rental vouchers valid restaurants and hotels in Guadeloupe, etc..
Master home
To achieve these ambitious goals, the ICAPP has opted for an autonomy status based on a sharing of competence with French state, along the lines of what has just been awarded St Bartholomew. Thus the ICAPP means that the new community that calls for, manages fifteen new skills, such as taxation, the customs, energy, education, etc.., while the state retains seven major skills such as national defense, to name a single example.
status which the ICAPP think for Guadeloupe is the Country and Overseas Territories (OCT) [2] "Guadeloupe exempting the constraints of the European internal market." "The Treaty of Lisbon (EU treaty) provides a clause-gateway for passing an outermost region to a status of territory from overseas. "So it would evolve very clearly, but while remaining within the bosom of the French republic, taking into account that the constitutional and community provide this scenario.
To finance the operation of these new powers, the ICAPP intends to rely on the principle of compensation expenses. Indeed, the booklet sold by the ICAPP specifies that "any net increase in costs resulting for the new community of powers transferred is accompanied by the concurrent payment by the state of financial compensation for the normal exercise of these powers. "
Bernard Bany, micro, alongside Alain Fun and prominent members of ICAPP (photo FG)
An audible message?
In my previous article, in response to a paper Mika Unleashed, I explained that separatism was not the only path to anti-colonial struggle. Maybe some people have thought I looking to play on words. This is not the proposed project today by the ICAPP is the demonstration if necessary. These Guadeloupe and Guadeloupean, who understood that the present status, far from granting protection to their citizens, making it impossible for any bounce out of the slump in which the sinking inexorably Guadeloupe. Their proposal has the merit at least to relaunch the debate on the future of Guadeloupe. In continuation of the LKP, they offer a reading grid to analyze the current situation and tools to try to get out. We can discuss many issues, such as the need anchorage in the Caribbean region alone would exceed the Guiana and Martinique, silence on the concentration of wealth in the hands of a handful of profits, etc.. ; The fact remains that the potential of this project, its viability, its realism and skill of those who drafted it, deserves consideration.
However, when I asked how the Creole Dog ICAPP avoid failure also had bitter as that known by Martinique with the overwhelming rejection of the transition section 74, the only response was made to me " we will work hard for it "A bit like Nicolas Sarkozy would have said:" The French do not want my reform? We will restate them. " Can we blame mainly ICAPP is not thought to have an alternative in its own way of doing politics. The press conference Saturday was eloquent on the shortcomings of the ICAPP on the matter: the method already: a proposal drawn up by experts as a beautiful glossy brochure, read the press on site and sold 2 euros. Certainly, in a second step, the ICAPP plans to visit in almost all towns in Guadeloupe, we begin told by Three Rivers, but he would not take the people involved in the development of the project company and let herself understand the urgent need for changes in status in order to achieve? The ICAPP could then offer his expertise in the area. One may wonder whether the presentation of the statutory evolution as an objective in itself, is able to attract really Guadeloupe. Especially as the seriousness of the members of ICAPP, it is an undeniable asset enhancing its credibility when it becomes a default communicate. A formal presentation too, lack of charisma of its spokesmen, not helping to get the message.
Birth of a new front anti-capitalist?
That said, it is likely that the ICAPP will not be alone in this approach and is joined in particular by the PCG, including the Secretary-General Felix Flemin, had made the trip to the bathroom Nainsouta; Flemin who in the name GRE recently called for a broad front anticolonial precisely lead to a statutory change that the Communist Party wants Guadeloupe since 1956, as recalled Bernard Bany, vice president of ICAPP, in his presentation. Questioned on this point by Chien Creole, Alain Pleasure responded that the ICAPP was working on a merger with other organizations, including the GRE.
Without being exclusive, the proposal of ICAPP is called to feed the debate in Guadeloupe, which is seeking. Want him to be at least heard.
[2] status is chosen by St. Bartholomew, which will be applied in this island, from 1 st January 2012.
THE MIKA DECH Î N É BUT IS IT? AND O Ù WILL IT?
A new romance ideological
It took six months Mika Unleashed "the newspaper Guadeloupe free opinion and critical analysis" as he s self-designate, to release his latest issue, both say that this return was expected.
Gladys Democritus, who is editor in chief, says in the editorial that it expects to be back after this release, having agreed to return to cabinet Victorin Lurel. She explained her decision by this confession moving against the socialist president of the region, "our principles, our values and our common ideals proved.
you say "Freudian slip"?
Gladys bows out this headline: "moment of truth for the LKP - but who is he? And where Will it? . Strange that a grammatical error: write "Who is it? "Rather than" what is he? Or "What is it? "Because until proven otherwise the LKP is not a person. We would write: "The UMP, which is it? ? Thence to wonder if it's not a Freudian slip of how the drafters of the LKP Mika considering there is only one step. A step that is tempting to pass by observing the choice of illustration: the facial image of one man, Elijah Domota in close-up, which gives it a vaguely disturbing. Ç has finally been confirmed when we read about Celine Nirin on page 8: "an organization of assembly, LKP seem to have become the political arm of the UGTG. His spokesman does little more than words and the ideology of the union of which he is also the secretary general (UGTG). "
Elie Domota glancing at an old issue of Mika Unleashed (yes I know, some strangely similar) (Photo: FG - Archives)
A LKP consumerist
What Celine Nirin she relies to make this damning conclusion (that recall, has absolutely nothing original since it constitutes the background Trade ideological anti-LKP since January 2009)? She claims to have analyzed the evolution of the dialectic of the LKP via its leaflets. Regardless, the approach is not uninteresting, but from the outset, the relevance of his analysis suggests at least thoughtful: our outstanding columnist noted that initially the speech of LKP revolved "around social demands and consumer (...) without political pretensions! Then she adds that the speech was radicalized "(...) over the month, gradually, surreptitiously ... the LKP says separatist claims clearly in line with those trotted out last fifty years our nationalist organizations. Whereupon she began to give us a little French lesson by engaging in a learned commentary on the text of the abstract of a tract of LKP when it presents itself as "a mass movement of anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist character Revolutionary (...) . It breaks one after another, each element of the offending sentence, therefore continuing in the mise-en-abyss:
What saves this month Mika Unleashed it? The design on the back cover upon the excellency of the collective Yeswoo 4KG
"refers to an anti-colonialist movement leading an anti-colonial struggle"
So for her, the term "anti-colonial" refers to a movement leading an anti-colonial struggle, that struggle for national liberation. It is clearly stated policy objective to lead a struggle for the independence of Guadeloupe. Now anti-colonialism, should remind him, is above all the rejection of the colonial system, the challenge to the dominant relationship between what might be called a metropolis and in this case, one of its known departments overseas (if we take a semantic Eurocentric). Being anti-colonialist, is to reject the nature of this report is based on a number of mechanisms such as: the fact to allocate the assets of the area subject to the mother or secure opportunities in the said territory, domestic products, which means not to develop an industry competitor, etc.. Any Republican, every citizen worthy of the name should condemn, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the survival of an archaic model of society and recognize themselves in this fight. One can imagine that France will choose tomorrow to have a real political development of Guadeloupe, in respect of its citizens, without the two entities are separate. No offense to Mika, we can perfectly well be without necessarily being anti-colonialist independence. This is certainly not the case for members of the UGTG but that of many other organizations within the LKP.
post-capitalist society
continue with the reasoning of the article's author who undertakes to explain now what "anti-capitalist": "here is exposed will create in Guadeloupe, once independence was achieved, a new society, not capitalism, that is to say socialist (not classes). " In the case of the term anti-capitalist I longed to return to the manifest Nirin miss nine intellectuals Martinique for a post-capitalist [1] , published in Le Monde, 16 February 2009. It may read in part: "The need is another very high (...) to enroll in a radical challenge of contemporary capitalism is not a perversion but the fullness of a hysterical dogma. The high need is to try immediately to lay the groundwork for a non-economic, where the idea of developing continuous growth departed in favor of that of the development, or employment, wages, consumption and production are places of self-creation and completion of the human. And then develop the idea that we need to reinstall the poetic value in the heart of human relationships and among many other things, replace the logic of profit that the gratuity. It is in this simple example in a capitalist system that has nothing to do with socialist regimes, though they may think of.
Rhetoric twisted
It is permissible and even desirable that the press and intellectuals can make criticisms of the LKP or any movement. It is something quite natural in a democracy. However, in both cases pre-cited, Celine Nirin uses what is called in rhetoric, sophistry, that reasoning, as defined by Wikipedia, "which apparently involves apparently strong arguments, c that is to say, taking the appearance of the demonstrative rigor, but actually contains a defect or a deliberate perversion to manipulate or to deceive the listener. "It as if she was telling us: Cats are mammals, rabbits belong to the order of mammals So rabbits are cats. Yes the anti-colonial independence but are not because we claim of anti-colonialism that is necessarily independence. While the socialist regimes are anti-capitalist, but this does not mean that all those who lay claim to aspire to anti-capitalism a socialist system, as I just demonstrated.
The knife between his teeth
It connects with the term "revolutionary." One can read in his article: "(...) The revolutionary character indicates that the path of reform is rejected, he prefers the path of radical transformation of society by taking power (whatever the means) . There ç has started pretty well. That is exactly what is meant by "revolutionary" with the reformist opposition. The latter considers can improve the system, while for the revolutionary, this is precisely the system that is causing the problem and should therefore be changed. Until proven otherwise, the citizen must be free to choose the system that he wishes to live, is precisely one of the foundations of democracy in the true sense of the word. Unfortunately, once again, Celine Nirin lost once in conjunctions and extrapolations "by the seizure of power", "whatever means". Statements that commit it, since the LKP has always been extremely clear in its statements and press releases on its commitment not to accede to political power and I do not even talk about his actions, none of which authorizes Mika Déchaîné to make such accusations, except to return to the farce that was Victorin Lurel compared the good-occupation of the General Council, with the attempted fascist coup in February 1934, in Paris ...
Good advice Creole Chien his colleague Mika
media orders are used to that kind of dishonest shortcuts. It is however sad see this journal, which was once a reference to the alternative press in Guadeloupe, to the power game and lend themselves to this kind of misinformation. In its back cover, the newspaper apparently in financial trouble, appealed to donors "to survive." No dog, we suggest to Gladys to take this opportunity to ask Mr. Lurel, to whom the new tone of Mika certainly not displeasing ...
Frederick Gircour (chien.creole @ gmail.com)
