The following statement is the outcome of a Frassanito-meeting during the
Fadaiat-project in Tarifa, in the south of Spain last week
(Fadaiat).
best greetings,
hagen

"Conspire and Strike for a Free, Open, Radical Europe"

A Statement by the Frassanito Network for the Euromayday Process

Freedom of movement was the central demand on 2nd April 2005 during the
second day of migration related actions which saw both large and small
protests and demonstrations take place in more than 50 cities in 11
countries (NoBorder).

Precarious living and labour-conditions were the focus a few weeks later, on
1st May, when Euromayday parades and actions happened simultaneously in
18 cities in 13 countries (Euromayday).

We consider both mobilisations as successful and important steps in shaping
a movement with a true European dimension. We think it is important that
both networking-processes not only referred to each other in the respective
calls but that the actions themselves were also connected in most countries.

The strengthening of this interconnection in its European dimension seems to
be more important following the recent referendums in France and Netherlands
which — independent of any evaluation of the actual "Constitutional Treaty"
itself — signal the danger of a re-nationalisation of politics, not only on
the right but also on the traditional left.As a way of promoting a European-wide struggle "for a free, open and radical
Europe" the Euromayday parades serve as a focal point and catalyst.
However this type of event has to be combined with more initiatives,
projects and
campaigns at a local daily level, which seems to be lacking in many cities
and countries. Whether inside or in close cooperation with main trade
unions, whether in autonomous grass-root unions, in
community-organisations, or in workers',
social or communication centres, we think that research and enquiries,
campaigns and conflicts, refusals and struggles have to take into account
the paradigmatic character of migrant labour. By this we do not mean a kind
of centrality of migrants within the process of Euromayday; to be vindicated
against other claimed "centralities".

When we talk about the paradigmatic
character of migrant labour, rather we want stress the fact that migrants
are experiencing in advance the general conditions of contemporary labour,
all the forms of depreciation and precarization. At the same time we want to
point out that migrants` practices of mobility express a radical challenge
to these processes of deprivation.

MOBILITY for us seems to be a crucial characteristic in the transformation
and the new composition of living labour, in a double sense and as a
contested field. On the one hand capitalism tries to control and regulate
mobility for the most flexible and competitive exploitation. On the other
hand migrants' mobility and movement undermines the border regimes that
are supposed to function as filters for the labour market; a process we
call "selective inclusion".

The autonomies of migration attack the whole
logics of the political in Eurospace. Hence mobility cold be seen as the
foundation of the potentially subversive political force of migrants. The
dynamics of their social and political struggles challenge the European
apartheid.

MULTIPLICITY for us seems to be the second crucial condition for
understanding the contemporary transformations of labour. The
multitudinous character within the "working class", the precarious, and
even among migrants, makes it impossible to reduce living labour to a new
homogenous subject. Taking into account the hierarchies which shape the
new composition, the strong
diversities of social movements and their respective demands and desires
requires first of all more communication and new forms of cooperation.

"Becoming common" is a long term process that is based on the autonomy of
the various struggles.
If we discuss — for example — "flexicurity", we have to take into
consideration the questions of (non-)access to the labour market for many
migrants or the blackmail of the link between labour contract and the right
to stay.

We are convinced of the strategic interconnection between the struggle for
freedom of movement, for the rights to have rights and the struggles against
precarization and for better living and labour conditions. In this sense we
are very interested to continue and to strengthen the cooperation between
migration related networks and the Euromayday-process.

And in this sense we not only agree to and want to contribute to another
European-wide meeting of Euromayday in September, but we also see this
meeting as a crucial appointment for all social movements in Europe.

Frassanito Network

in Tarifa at Fadaiat, June 2005