(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #247 - Massacre 7-9 janvier: Solidarity despite the sacred union (fr, it, pt)

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #247 - Massacre 7-9
janvier: Solidarity despite the sacred union (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

There was nothing to be nausea, after January 7, nausea blood shed by the fanatics, nausea 
and republican tricolor instrumentalization, nausea wave of Islamophobic hysteria ... 
Faced with "terrorism", the time s' Announce difficult, and it takes above all remain 
lucid. ---- The tragedy has been exceptional. The severity of its scope, but also, 
unfortunately, by the grotesque finery in which it was decked. Tragic murder of 17 people 
three Jihadist between 7 and 9 January, either because they had "insulted the Prophet" 
either because they were Jewish. Tragically, the death of several of the most famous 
designers in the country. Tragically, shameless politician recovery that followed behind 
the "national unity" Hollande-Sarkozy. Tragically, this defense of "freedom" by a parade 
of emissaries States constantly repress[1] or conducting endless imperialist wars [2].

Tragic mass at Notre Dame for better bury these fierce anticlerical. Tragically, the 
Marseillaise and tricolors made to drape the death of these unpatriotic always. 
Tragically, the phenomenal marketing campaign right-thinking the slogan "I'm Charlie" 
displayed in businesses, on signs the Paris ring until the Nasdaq pediment, on Wall Street.

Charlie Hebdo of the survivors were not fooled. Willem refused to march on January 11, 
with people who "represent everything against which we are." Laurent Léger lamented: "It 
would have been better than Charlie is not there, we were affected in our flesh and that 
is associated to all of these policies. "Luz parade but admitting his discomfort:" As said 
the caricature of Cabu, it is not easy to be followed by idiots, gender Angela Merkel ... 
Everyone can recover what he wants in a symbol, but we can not get our work. "[3]

Divergence of views

Take a step back, ignore everything appalling spectacle to find the first sense of emotion 
that hit the country on January 7th. A penalty equal for all victims, whether anonymous or 
known. A sincere sentence, despite the differences of opinion that we could get Charlie Hebdo.

Indeed, that was fifteen years that the satirical weekly had lost much of its readership 
extreme left. While we must be careful to amalgamate all of drafting a éditocrate, the 
right-wing drift Philippe Val had a lot. Support for NATO in Kosovo in 1999, rallying to 
neoliberalism, febrile campaign for the European Constitution in 2005, miserable dismissal 
Sine 2008, all asking the philosopher, his mouth full of Montaigne or Voltaire ... This " 
béachèlisation "has been accelerated sufficiently documented so we are back [4].

The starting Val in 2009, following his appointment to the direction of France Inter - 
with the approval of President Sarkozy - had allowed to aerate the newspaper, now led by 
Charb and Riss.

Satire of Islam and gnashing of teeth

Nevertheless remained a subject of discomfort, recurrent since the affair of the Mohammed 
cartoons in 2006 satirizing Islam [5]. Charlie Hebdo attack all religions, superstitions 
and sects, trying to undermine the mythologies and desecrate the prophets. And it is his 
job to do so. But in a European context sometimes latent Islamophobia, now open, that this 
particular religion is perceived as an "enemy from within", satire of Islam by Charlie 
Hebdo has often left a bitter taste in antiracist readership. And critics have accumulated 
sometimes worn by former collaborators [6].

Apart from this friction that had alienated many sympathies to log its authors continued 
to support the social struggles, including those of migrant workers and the homeless [7], 
and let all the leaves of cabbage union or revolutionary blithely use in their designs ... 
This was recently the case with a poster of Libertarian Alternative decorated with a 
drawing of Tignous.

Solidarity and critical action

AL precisely. In the wake of the massacre, the organization has demonstrated its pain, and 
condemned in advance Islamophobic attacks that would inevitably arise under "retaliation" 
[8]. Then came the huge demonstrations of January 11, initiated by anti-racist 
organizations, but transformed by the government "Republican march" sacred union ... The 
anti-capitalist organizations have publicly stood out this charade [9].

However the policy of AL is not to turn its back on street movements, but to try to make 
themselves heard. In many cities, the organization thus intervened on the sidelines of 
events, alone or with others, to give [views 10] or boost alternative gatherings "out 
sacred union." This has sometimes earned him applause, boos at times. No matter.

The anti-terrorist hysteria ad particularly hard time for the "dangerous classes", the 
neighborhoods and the Muslim minority in this country. More than ever, we must denounce 
stigma and strive to reduce racial divisions that undermine the proletariat.

Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil) and Edith Soboul (SF AL)

[1] These include, among others, in the demonstration on 11 January 2015, the presence in 
Paris of representatives of Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Gabon, Egypt and Turkey.

[2] Among others: the United States, Israel, France ...

[3] Testimony of several Charlie Hebdo survivors in Libération, 11 January 2015.

[4] It is sufficient to remember, to read the vitriol of sardonic newspaper PLPL (Archive 
www.homme-moderne.org ) and the Plan B (archiveshttp://web.archive.org ) .

[5] Laurent Esquerre, "Muhammad cartoons: Between racism and obscurantism" Libertarian 
Alternative, March 2006.

[6] Mona Chollet, "The redneck obscurantism. To the ideological spun Charlie Hebdo ", 
Outskirts, March 2006; Olivier Cyran, "The opinion of the boss," QED, February 2006;

[7] Read about the news Housing Law, January 8, 2015. And see the image of the month, on 
page 20 of this issue.

[8] Press AL, January 8, 2015. More than 115 anti-Muslim acts were recorded in fifteen 
days after the massacre.

[9] In the absence of sufficient reactivity, the statement proposed by AL to all 
anti-capitalist has collected the signatures of the NPA, the JI and PCOF. It was published 
on 10 January.

[10] Tract "The union is a farce", available on www.alternativelibertaire.org .

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