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Both these groups are involved in polite collaboration with obnoxious political electoralist groups like the semi-Trotskyist NPA (New Anti-capitalist Party). Anarcho-bureaucrats, both of them. The very title of the Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA )is a Leninist absurdity - most anarchist groups are not at all co-ordinated by them and yet they pretend, to anyone naive enough, to represent them ( as if representation and a libertarian perspective were compatible).

Back in 2016, the first Nuit Debout in Montpellier, where I live, was organized mainly by the CGA. There was a "stage" - that is to say everyone was facing one way to the front and if we wanted to talk we had to go there and take the microphone (without any cable) stand up and address people in the traditional conventional manner, as in the theater. After a boring 30 minute discussion, concerned only with the form of this Nuit de Boue (commissions, etc.) someone took the microphone to suggest a change in form: everyone in a circle and the microphone being passed to each person who wanted to talk, who could have remained sitting down if they'd wanted to. He immediately proposed a vote, and a majority agreed. It was only a change in form, a change that would have allowed people who are not accustomed to political roles, people who are shy about being in the limelight, , to feel less anxious about speaking in front of a crowd. But the anarcho-bureaucrats of the CGA - ideologues of a so-called "horizontalism" that they do not practice - had already decided that we were not allowed to vote right away or even change the form of their citizenist bullshit, refused to be to diverted from the plan they'd already decided among themselves. Their roles (anarchist preachers with a message to convert people to anarchist critique, to recruit people to their organization - an organization that organizes the organization and its image) have to invariably be preserved so as to preserve the idea that they are indispensable to movement in which they transform nothing, especially not themselves.
Because I made this kind of critique in a leaflet (here: http://dialectical-delinquents.com/textes-francais/nuit-debout-ou-nuit-t... ) they later accused me (on the internet) of either being a mysogenist (calumnising also the women who supported me as being 'submissive women') or (on an email list) of being a fascist - neither accusations being supported by the slightest concrete evidence.