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Due to their specific culture,
their History, their languages, their feeling
of common belonging, Bretons indeed are a people.
Every people has a right to exist as such. We
are therefore for independence of Brittany, in
order to take our future in hand, to develop our
languages and our culture and to repair the damage
done by French colonialism : loss of our culture,
of our languages, total dependence to the state…
We want to be actors and actresses of our own
History.
France as it is presented
to us does not exist. Its national conception
eclipses our identity, in spite of the principles
it is supposed to be based on. It is a political
project leading to standardisation, subservience
of peoples and centralisation of competencies.
In Brittany and elsewhere, the French state has
always behaved as a colonialist state :
- economically (fisheries
management, agriculture, industries, …)
- socially (job centres, unemployed
people forced to accept unfair contracts under
the threat of cutting off of their unemployment
benefit,…)
- politically (centralisation
of power and decision-making structures in Paris,
without local consultation,…)
- as regards military affairs
(JAPD, planned repartition of occupation forces,
…)
-as well as in all other fields
(energy sources and production, education, …).
… and therefore we stand
by other struggling (either socially or for national
liberation) peoples and are conscious that fighting
for an anarchist Brittany can only be conceived
in the framework of a battle fought at world level.
With this aim, the Breton fight constitutes a
spark which can induce others, in particular as
regards emancipation struggles which are a potential
pool for radical social changes.
As regards languages, the
Breton people as a whole, due to the French language-killing
and standardising policy, now speaks French. We
are therefore not against the French language,
but Breton and Gallo now must take again the place
they lost in society, education, the media,..
We are in favour of a multilingual society, in
which all languages brought here by immigration
will have their place, without exclusion.
Our struggle is in the continuity
of the social emancipation movement born with
the Industrial Revolution. For us, national liberation
cannot be achieved without a collective and individual
liberation. Nevertheless, we do not favour any
struggle more than another.
The state, in spite of what
it pretends, is a tool that works inevitably against
peoples and individuals.
Taking care of one’s affairs
means not leaving anyone else (elected people,
cops, prefects, ..) decide in our place. Whether
for social, economy, international relations,
ecology…or for everyday life in which laws are
repressive tools which prevent the individual
from deciding what is good for him / her. We are
therefore in favour of a functioning which starts
from the people : village, commune, group, country
assemblies, which make it possible for every individual
can express him / herself and for every idea to
be debated with all to reach a consensus, in order
to take everybody’s interests into account.
So far, all models which were
imposed on us failed (capitalism, Eastern socialism,
electoral democracies, …). It is consequently
time to imagine and build a new society on human,
collective, non-speculative and non-authoritarian
bases.
An anarchist Brittany is resolutely
against capitalism, authoritarianism and fascism.
Because the law of markets is only beneficial
to a handful of individuals who exploit the rest
of the population and natural resources, we are
against all forms of patronat and for the re-appropriation
of production tools by those who try to set up
self management and produce only what is necessary.
Let’s break the productivist logic, which only
aim is profit !The cultural standardisation of
people answers the needs for standardisation and
control of consumption of exploiters. This logic
leads to intolerance.
For us, independence means
opening towards the others. We won’t erect frontiers
and reject the other. Brittany is multiple and
multicultural and we are conscious that it is
through this cultural diversity that peoples go
forward. We stand against every form of chauvinism.
Be Breton does not mean being born in Brittany
or bearing a Breton name. Be Breton can mean choosing
to participate in Breton collective life, in initiatives
and decisions, being present in the assemblies.
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