frassanito-statement in Tarifa at Fadaiat (Spain)

Lets go on to "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 (www.noborder.org).
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 (www.euromayday.org).
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.