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It is an event which the media persist in refusing to cause us last week, the revolt of the people of Wisconsin against their Governor Walker. This enacts laws that restrict government spending and trade union rights. Immediately the opposition parliamentarians "exile" in Ohio, preventing, February 21, the quorum to be reached, while 70,000 residents of Wisconsin will meet in Madison at the Capitol with the intention of staying there until the withdrawal of laws, consciously making this place a new place TIHR al. According to observers, this is a spontaneous movement. Noam Chomsky sees this as "the beginnings of the great revolt expected in the USA." Currently, 26 February, Walker comes to vote (by Republicans) an enactment enabling him to evacuate by force the Capitol in Madison. This "coup" has increased tension and caused a reaction from the Police Association of Wisconsin, who opposes the law and called the police in Madison and Wisconsin to participate in the occupation of the Capitol to alongside the protesters. To be continued ...

The wave of protest that killed Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi soon intensified in the World: Yemen Bahrain, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Oman, etc.. Behind these revolts, more than the will of tyrants hunting, there are social demands, the proof is that the interim government in Tunisia is increasingly challenged, in Egypt, strikes are numerous and effective (the 24,000 employees of the largest factory in the country have received a salary increase ... 25%!) Even in China, the resistance is growing, strikes and protests are proliferating. Greece, on 23 February, the day of general strike has radicalized to the cry of "We will not pay!"

It is therefore a global wave and affects political systems very different, but united in the exploitation of workers. Hence the claims of dignity and social justice. We try to make us believe that the insurgents would fight for the establishment of Islamic regimes. Reality belies this Western propaganda that's all dictatorial system that is targeted ally or not U.S. interests.

States do not allow themselves obviously do, and the ruthless repression. Fighter jets shooting into the crowd in Libya, the army firing into the crowd in Yemen, Bahrain ... International solidarity all workers is higher than ever.

In France, the political links with the tyrants are all too obvious: MAM, Fillon are friends of Ben Ali, Patrick Ollier (POM) near Khadafi, as once claimed Saddam Chevenement Hussein ... This week, Sarkozy received the dictator of Gabon, Omar Bongo, with open arms. Not long ago, Gadhafi was camping in Paris, Strauss-Kahn had the eyes of Chimene for the "Tunisian miracle"!

We urge the people of the world to shake off the yoke of financial interests, petroleum, mining, destroying lives and the planet (Borloosien scandal of shale gas, for example). They are organized at the base to expropriate the exploiters, to rebuild a life based on solidarity, equality and freedom. In France, as elsewhere in the world is the motto that should dominate.

In France as elsewhere it is time to forget the smoke and mirrors that tends to make us believe that with a ballot in the ballot box, we will solve our problems! We will return soon ...

Forget for a quote: "When the strikes spread, communicate to the next, is that they are close to becoming a general strike and a general strike, with the prevailing ideas of liberation in today's proletariat, can only lead to a great cataclysm that would be revamped to society. We're not there yet, no doubt, but everything leads us there. But the people must be ready, he can no longer retract by the speakers and dreamers, [...], and why it must be highly organized and serious. "Mikhail Bakunin.

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«Journées d’éclipse» de Alexandre Sokourov (1988)

A vast poetic, the innumerable and inexhaustible reading levels, driven by work on the image and its own hallucinations. "Days of Eclipse (or" The day of the eclipse, "according to translations) is a film-world. The criticism could stop there, by abdicating the face of this senseless task: trying to rewrite and to the reader what can be perceived as the only means of this beyond what the meaning of poetry. However, without going into detail analysis of the film (to be done overnight, but impossible après une seule vision – à quand une édition DVD ?!?), je peux sans risque avancer quelques remarques générales sur cette œuvre. Libre adaptation d’une nouvelle des frères Strougatski, les maîtres de la science-fiction russe, «Journées d’éclipse» ne peut cependant pas être qualifié de film de science-fiction. La toute dernière séquence peut éventuellement, si cela lui plaît, orienter le spectateur vers une relecture fantastique du film : dans un plan sensationnel (qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’ultime plan de «Solaris»), Sokourov fait disparaître le lieu du drame, ce village turkmène emboîté dans the mountain. Was it ultimately a mirage? It would then perhaps reconsider the level of reality of what we have seen, and impossible to decipher in a work of interpretation (not in terms of objectivity, because this interpretation can be personal) the significance of many appearances of strange that dot the film: a conversation with a dead body moving like an animal, strange creatures that are preserved in jelly, etc. ... It should also consider the many allusions to the collapse of communism in the republics Soviet, fear of repression, the disquieting atmosphere of muted violence and diffuse threats. It certainly succeed in building something roughly consistent. But this is not the essence of the film. Most commentators saw it as a metaphor for the impossible freedom and the annihilation of all creativity in the framework of a totalitarian system. This reading is in my view simplistic and relies only on some of the evocations that causes the vision of the film. "Days of Eclipse" is a work that is lived and felt more than it becomes intellectualized, a work in which he must lose, let go, getting carried away by the dazzling poetic impressions that invade each plan. Visually, the proposed show is a dazzling beauty of each moment, Sokurov doing work properly crazy about light and color. The use of color reminds us of the "Element of Crime" Von Trier, made 4 years ago, but the comparison stops there, the Apocalypse sokourovienne having a density and depth of meaning absent from the Danish film. We are also surprised, when you know Sokurov, the nervousness of the camera, vivid and moving, which prevents the film from succumbing to lethargy contemplative, and maintains a real dramatic tension. The richness of sound work, with a very pertinent use of sound and voice-overs, is breathtaking ... You will understand, "Days of Eclipse" is a masterpiece, probably the greatest film that Russian cinema we have offered since the demise of Tarkovsky. [4 / 4]