France, Alternative Libertaire AL #230 - Folder Black Revolution: A "black revolution" remains to be done (fr

Black Americans from the 1960s to racialized es in France today, we find that racialized 
groups always end up living the same evils. There are systemic explanations for this: 
racism, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism. ---- If the domination persists, there are 
also similarities between the movements of the immigration of the 1980s in France and the 
civil rights movement of the 1960s in the United States. In 1983, the first Marches for 
equality had modeled the famous March on Washington in 1963 and non-violent methods of 
Martin Luther King. For its part, the Mitterrand regime was inspired by how the Kennedy 
administration had recovered the civil rights movement. Thus, the radicalism that had 
emerged following the Marches was cleverly cut under the feet of protesters. Finally, in 
France as in the United States, the opening of the upper echelons of society has made only 
benefit of an integrated elite, while in parallel repression and political prison was 
merciless.

The interconnectedness of oppressions

Today, racist domination is nested state domination and capitalism. But, as in the 
southern United States in the late nineteenth century, segregationist laws
institutionalized racism in France today: anti-immigrant laws es, anti-Roma, Islamophobia 
... In addition to these laws so interdependent security laws, widespread social 
instability, the neo-colonial imperialist offensive, patriarchal regressions, etc.. Answer 
on all these fronts is not easy, but in the black revolution, slopes were tested.

The civil rights movement made ??it possible to put an end to legal discrimination in the 
southern United States, but changing laws did not lead to much real equality. The limits 
of this movement were recorded by Luther King himself during the last years of his life, 
he knew indeed the need to articulate the struggle for civil rights to those on social 
issues and the fight against imperialism. Thus he embarked thereafter against the war by 
the Americans in Vietnam, while launching the campaign "poor people" [ 1 ]. It is at this 
time that Luther King was assassinated, as was also Malcolm X, while the latter began to 
internationalize the struggle of black-'re trying to build alliances, and also emphasize 
the importance of conducting a fight against capitalism. The Black Panther Party (BPP) 
attempted to address the social and security problems of the ghetto, while the DRUM ( 
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement : union black-es of the Detroit auto industry) engaged 
in the battle within plants by the black proletariat. The black feminism also emerged at 
this time, citing the specific oppression of black women, as distinguished from that 
suffered by black men and white women.

Autonomy and self-organization

The black movement teaches us how important it is, in the framework of the fight against 
racial domination, that racialized es have places of autonomy and paternalism are 
independent of some white organizations. Relations between blacks and the labor movement 
in general have been so hectic that it has demonstrated that it can not be a full 
consideration of the issue of racism without first concerned snapped a voice to those who 
their confiscated so far. The articulation of the general struggle (which shall include 
social issues) and specific combat (racism, etc.). Already arose in the American left a 
century ago. Today, in France, we are always trying to make this joint.

Malcolm X's experience of building a solidarity and a unit of racialized-'re living inside 
Western countries or their outside is posrteur hope. The BPP theorized colonialism inside 
the imperialist countries. He practiced organization underclass, and implemented social 
programs by black independently (but not self): that social support was instrumental in 
its success. Working with white proletarians eventually be possible for the BPP like 
Malcolm X, aware of the importance of alliances for the minority, but also that of 
maintaining a database of autonomy.

For a movement of emancipation in France racist

All these factors have led to the emergence of a liberation movement that has radically 
challenged the social order between 1955 and 1975. Added to this a cultural emancipation, 
in which was also seen bourgeois culturalist drifts from Nation of Islam to cultural 
nationalists Huey P. Newton strongly criticize these abuses. But an autonomous movement 
could not ignore this cultural aspect and the need for dignity, for the emancipation can 
not be limited to strictly social issues. LGBT movements, feminists and even workers have 
never existed without these cultural aspects or specific groups in situations of social 
domination identity pride.

Solidarity neo-colonized es outside and inside, self-organization and autonomy-are 
racialized, and mass direct action by the proletariat and sub-proletariat of 
neighborhoods, convergence intersectional: Here are the key lessons for the anti-racist 
struggle today. The libertarian point of view, the synthesis that we need to make these 
significant contributions must be accompanied by a critical vis-?-vis a movement that was 
in many ways too authoritarian. Thus, divisions, repression, assassinations, depletion or 
recovery key players led to the failures of the movement, not allowing the development of 
spontaneity are oppressed, so that spontaneity is clearly expressed in urban riots. Today, 
we must work to develop the unity of racialized es, whether in neighborhoods or 
workplaces. We also need to articulate the anti-imperialist struggles, anti-capitalist and 
antipatriarchal, as was thought to arrive at the peak of the period of BPP. The radical 
and despair are potentially there: show that solidarity and collective struggle is a 
better way than individualistic strategies or reactionary.

As we strive to promote the self-organization, autonomy of the interested parties, and 
self-management of the future struggles. " ? Our little brothers, this will be the 
Panthers ? 'citions us in the introduction of the file. The little brothers and sisters 
soon finished growing.

Alternative libertarian racist Commission

Case summary:
- The roots of racism: From slavery to the ghetto
- labor movement: black or white, always proletarians
- Malcolm X: a life in black and white
- Malcolm X: Building a Black Power
- The Black Panthers beyond the myth
- The Black Feminism: at the intersection of oppressions
- DRUM: The struggle of blacks in the workplace
- black reformist movements: The pitfalls of bourgeois strategies
- Harana Par? (historian): "This is the revolt that brought into existence the American Black"
- A Black Revolution remains to be done

[ 1 ] see AL No. 171 in March 2008: " In 1968: The worker turning the black movement . "