I am a member of CNT, the Confédération Nationale du Travail, and am involved with the Libertaires. This means that I believe in the responsibility of the individual and in the equal distribution of property. That way I’m also involved with AC!, at the NO VOX and with the Euromarches. Together we oppose unemployment, economic insecurity and social exclusion. Each one of us has to be involved; we have to take the world into our hands again. It’s about the redistribution of riches - the future lies in another way of living. This means that we stop consuming, that we act responsibly, that we know why we’re in the world and what the most important basic values are. … Michel, unemployed engineer, France The initiative AC! campaigns for shorter working hours without a wage adjustment, the creation of stable, socially reasonable workplaces with social security and standard wages…. Together with other groups, in 1997 AC! initiated the first European March … Since then, the Euromarch movement has been involved throughout Europe against any forced labour, the erosion of wage agreements, forced part-time work, layoffs and overtime work … |
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