For about ten years, an unprecedented contestation against the economic domination of the world has mounted and, each time, shown a common face: the revolutionary youth. From Argentina in 2001 to Tunisia in 2011, passing through the Palestinian Intifada of 2002, the revolts in the working class neighborhoods of France in 2005, Greece since 2009 – prefiguring the crisis in many European countries – but also Bolivia, Spain, Mexico, Mali, Burkina Fasso, Senegal, China, Iran… Front lines against capitalism and its dictators have been opened in many countries.

Since December 17th, 2011 a rapid acceleration of the international movement has begun in a region where no one expected the emergence of such a force: the Arab world. From Tunisia to Yemen, a revolutionary wave that has not stopped spreading is disturbing all the hierarchies imposed during the postcolonial period.

Today, so that the struggles don’t lose their strength and so that, every week, they invade the great capitals of countries in crisis, the junction between the protagonists of the protest is necessary.

The revolution in Tunisia and its aftermath are the beginning of an international revolution, but they are only a beginning, they are an outline of an international revolution, they are an international awareness of history. This revolutionary process released in Tunisia put the theories of the end of history, the end of ideologies… the end of revolutions… in crisis. The Tunisian revolution, the first “postmodern” revolution, shows once again the possibility that a people conduct its own struggle and organize itself for and by itself, outside of the dominant world’s bureaucratized and co-opted institutions.

This is why Tunisia, the starting point of the current revolts should become a meeting place for all those that want to build a new society.

This is why we propose an international meeting in Tunisia. The meeting will happen in three parts. First a plenary assembly at the Bourse de Travail in Tunis. Second, a few days of debates, workshops, both in the capital and in other cities – notably in Sidi Bouzid and Sousse. Finally, a day to conclude and produce a final declaration with the perspective of following up in this international process.

The new epoch is profoundly revolutionary and it knows it is. On all of the levels of the global society, we can’t and won’t continue on like before. Above, we can no longer manage things as before because we’ve discovered that the premises of the excess of the economy take root beyond ethical boundaries. Below, we can no longer be subjected to what happens and this is the need for life that has now become a revolutionary program.

The resolution to make history ourselves is the profound sense of this international meeting in Tunisia. Our generation, internationally, has now started to be revolutionary and will struggle in the days to come.

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