UN RENOUVEAU DE LA PARTICIPATION ASSOCIATIVE ? L'engagement et le militantisme au sein du comité Attac Isère

1.2.1.2 The constitution of an anti-mondialiste network 

Since, the international mobilizations multiplied^299(*). The IMF and the World Bank were disputed in their policy at the time of the against-top of Washington and that of Prague in September 2000. The conferences of UNO (United Nations) gave place to mobilizations such as for example at the time of the «social Summit » which was held in Geneva^300(*) from the 28 to June 30, 2000. Lastly, the European tops were also the place of mobilizations. It was the case in December 2000 in Nice or Götegorg (Sweden) in June 2001. During these demonstrations, one can observe among the organizations present a great diversity. However, it is about a restricted number of groupings ; they are generally found at each new against-top and take the practice to militate together. It is possible to gather the whole of these organizations under the term of « movement antimondialist ».

The anti-mondialiste dispute is carried out on a particular mode. The mobilization of the militants, at the time of the against-tops, takes place through a whole of associations, trade unions or parties policy. It acts individuals who fall under a network (the anti-mondialiste movement) by the means of the organization to which they belong. Moreover, it is not rare that the individuals cumulate adhesions with associations, trade unions and political parties varied and are in position of « multi-membership ». This structure of mobilization is not new. On the other hand, within an organization like Attac, the diversity of the organizations which are represented is very vast. For example, among the founder members of Attac, appear of the organizations of defense of the unemployeds (the national Movement of the unemployeds and precarious, MNCP), of assistance to housing (the DAL), of ecology (Friends of the ground), of professionals (the SNUIPP, unified national Syndicat of the teachers and professors of the schools) or cultural (the French Federation of the Houses of Young people and the Culture, FFMJC). There is also a great diversity of political affiliations of the participants. This diversity is checked, for example, within the committee isérois where militants of the PS côtoient militants of extreme left, and even of the anarchists. It is the same for the mobilizations for the against-tops where processions of left moderate and bunches anarchistic are found in the same demonstration. How to explain that individuals who do not have, a priori, of ideological affinities can find themselves within the same network of mobilization ? In order to be able to include/understand this mode of organization, it is necessary to analyze the configurations of the associative participation, heard in the broad direction of organized form of intervention in the public sphere^301(*).

* ²⁹⁹Cf, «  From Seattle in Genoa ", appendix n°7, p. 11.

* ³⁰⁰ The Summit of Geneva was to be used to take stock of the social progress accomplished in the world since the Summit of Copenhagen in 1995. At the time of that Ci the international community had laid down objectives to be reached as regards reduction of poverty and the inequalities in the world. After five years, the posted objectives were not achieved and the conference of Copenhagen was considered by the president of the general assembly of UNO (Théo Ben Gurirab) and by his secretary-general (Kofi Annan) a failure.

* ³⁰¹«  Concept with variable geometry, the associative participation is here defined like a voluntary process of mobilization of the individuals in a group made up more or less durable and intervening in the public sphere  ». Bathélémy (Martine), op.cit, p. 12.