France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Racist and sexist violence in Argenteuil - Support the feminist response, antiracist and antifascist (fr)

Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) is a few weeks the scene of violent racist attacks. ---- On May
20, a veiled girl of 17 years, B. Rabia, was beaten by two individuals. The police did not 
want the complaint registered as a racist attack. A few months ago it was Nadia C. who had 
been attacked with knife. Tuesday, June 11, after an identity check of a woman wearing the 
niqab, the police fired flash-ball and sent tear gas into the crowd who tried to 
intervene. Thursday, June 13 Finally, two individuals attacked a young woman of 21 years, 
and veiled pregnant, as she left a testing laboratory. She was beaten, her veil was torn 
and she was dragged to the ground. The victim lost her child since. ---- This wave of 
racist and sexist acts in the context of police pressure on neighborhoods, shows how 
colonial racism is still a reality in France.

Moreover, we do not forget that in 2009 already Argenteuil, police killed Ali Ziri (69 
years), and that officials who benefited from a non-place, are still service in the city 
streets!

This is what ordinary racism, maintained by successive governments used by political 
parties and conveyed by the media who abandoned any critical sense, which is gradually 
directed against Muslims and Muslim-are presented as enemy -es from the inside. We 
denounce in 2004 the Ferry law on religious symbols in public schools because its sole 
purpose was to stigmatize the Muslim population and to foster a broader identity, racist 
and sexist policy to divide workers. The operation was very successful in the context of 
reflux struggles after the strikes against the against-pension reform in 2003, 10 years
later, that's where led political opportunism and environmental racism.

This racism has spread in society without laws, national debates and daily discrimination. 
It has established itself in the institutional field at the cost of intense ideological
battle. This has included diverting a progressive and emancipatory as secularism for 
reactionary idea because it was essentially exploited to stigmatize a population. The 
discourse on national identity answered meanwhile a desire to succeed in the political 
arena the idea of ??a clash of civilizations since postulated that national identity was 
Christian essence and it was threatened by immigrant-es and especially by the Muslim-es.

Racist acts against Muslims and Muslim we are witnessing today are eerily echo the fascist 
and homophobic attacks that multiply for several months and who recently killed Clement
Meric. Faced with reactionary forces, racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic, who feel sprout 
wings from mobilization against marriage for all-you-s, we call for class solidarity and 
feminist response, anti-racist and anti-fascist.

A Argenteuil as elsewhere, we support the struggles of victims, their families and 
resident `Popular neighborhoods es decided to seek justice against these attacks. 30 years 
ago, the March for Equality young immigrant es Minguettes (V?nissieux neighborhood in the 
suburbs of Lyon) allowed them to denounce racist violence and security. 30 years later,
nothing has fundamentally changed, and there are still many reasons to mobilize massively 
to unite the victims of political and whatever their origin (Roma, Muslim-es, es-worker
paperless racist ... ) and take as the French population in 1983 to witness.

Libertarian alternative, June 22, 2013