France, Alternative Libertaire AL #229 - Social amnesty Leave Louise Michel die in prison (fr)

Amnesty laws and presidential pardons are two French legal curiosities, a country where 
political power relations can defeat strict decisions (in) justice. Amnesty for the 
Communards, Victor Hugo took the lead in the first opinion campaign. Another cultural 
exception! ---- Amnesty activists and trade unionists (starting with the reintegration of 
thousands of delegates dismissed without ever challenged any of the laws of the Republic) 
was a theme in itself the election of 81, a claim strongly expressed by the CGT in 
particular. Mitterrand partially responded to the request after his election (the last 
amnesty to coup plotters of the OAS but that no one had asked him ...). ---- Neither 
during the 2012 campaign, or after the election of Holland this question was actually 
asked by the social movement.

Indicates that probably all at once his real weakness but also cut with a PS whose victory 
is no longer considered the victory of those who struggle. This is the PCF, playing on the 
key role his group elected to the Senate, where the PS is not a majority alone, will 
revive a draft amnesty modest. Negotiations with the PS group alters deeper draft. But it 
still leaves a bill that the PCF and the Left Front will qualify vis-?-vis social 
movements. A small token of friendship socialist senators also prepare their municipal ...

Amnesty light version
Are excluded from the amnesty made the most heavily condemned the "crimes against persons" 
and protest following fields: agriculture, school, undocumented, health, research 
(voluntary reapers), anti-nuke, anti pub NDDL ... Even in this light version the 
government was quickly learn that he would oppose any amnesty, building on the recent 
escalation of protests homophobic. The group of MPs PS aligns and the project falls in the 
debate in the National Assembly. Outside barely 500 activists made the trip to support a 
hollow and doomed project.

Scare activists
Actually full rise of capitalist violence, on the eve of new waves of layoffs and plant 
closures, on the eve of new social regression in companies under inter-national agreement 
(lower wages and increases working time "for two years"), on the eve of new evictions of 
slums, on the eve of new challenges to the rights of the unemployed and the right to 
retirement, PS / Green government wants to scare activists, workers whose anger eventually 
inevitably explode. With Valls who honed his image and whose presidential baton is the 
only chance the PS to avoid a return of the right to power. For solidarity with the 
convicted it will play us. Already the formation of local collective unit (Lille, Metz, 
Ales ...) give way. Holland first cop of capitalism? It would also murdered Rosa Luxemburg!

Jean-Yves (AL Seine-Saint-Denis)