This is a short report written in a personal capacity only, but I think it might capture something of a collective understanding among the networks which participated in the Geneva meeting.

efore anything I want to remove my usual attire of critical distance and say that I'm convinced Evian is the most importan mobilisation in Europe since Genoa, perhaps even Prague. The overall amount of participants can be safely assesed at half a million, and all the conditions for a brilliant action are in place: lots of space, lots of energies and the clear tactical undersandings that have emerged in the past year.

In the meeting, very early on it was clear that there were two distinct voices in the room; on the one hand the people from ATTAC, the unions and other types who were interested in a big unitary march, on the other hand people from CLAAAC (a syndicalist / libertarian-socialist plaform of people from France and Switzerland, no relation to the Canadian group) and people involved with PGA. The latter found its shared voice very quickly and went bravely into battle. At the end of the 'actions' workshop on the first day a fragile consensus of mutual support emerged, which was defended succesfully next day at the plenry when people from unions who hadn't participated tried to go again for only a unitary march. We managed to include 'support and solidarity for the blockades' in the formal call, though it's clear from the language that it is viewed as a separate process. Without going into too many details, the general program is:

• The march and the blockades will happen ON THE SAME DAY, Sunday June 1st when the G8 opens
• On the night before (June 31st) there will be the Feu Au Lac (bonfires all around lake Geneva)
• During the week before the actions there will be at least two self-organised villages (one is the VAAAG organised by CLAAC and the other by the Young Trotskyists, Green Party and others), as well as an NGO countersummit

What this in effect means - in my prognsis at least - is that ATTAC, unions and other institutional groups are not going to move a finger to organise the direct actions around lake Geneva. I think they are interested in replicating Feb.15th rather than having a good summit blockade. At best, the blockades which will begin in the early hours on Sunday may be reinforced, in the Geneva/Annemasse area, by some of the march participants who will be bussed there. The big advantage here is that we have a lot of space to work with, and n opportunity to separate the protest spaces and make the differences very visible o as to avoid the confusions of Genoa. It thus looks like the division in the meetin will be replicated in the political affinities at work. Now this is actually good for us, because it seems the main blockade will not be in the Geneva area but in Lausanne, where all the entourage of secretaries, journalists etc. will be staying, in order to take the ferry to Evian on Sunday morning. So let them march - we will be calling the shots where the action is. After Geneva I was in Lausanne for two days and the space there seems very solid both politically and tactically - but they could still use a lot of help in the coming months. Hopefully one of theme is here in Dijon and can tell more. In any case, the European networks are going to need to mobilise to get there at least a week in advance, when travel between geneva and Lausanne is still possible, and form good affinities and action strategies.

But there is clearly a huge amount of work to do if we want it to succeed. I think it is worth every drop of energy we got for the coming months.