France, Alternative Libertaire - policy, "Opening a gap in the national consensus", November 26, 2015 by AL 93, AL Montreuil, AL Paris North East, AL Paris-Sud, AL Saint-Denis

France, Alternative Libertaire - policy, "Opening a gap in
the national consensus", November 26, 2015 by AL 93, AL
Montreuil, AL Paris North East, AL Paris-Sud, AL Saint-Denis (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

[Audio] Given the unanimity (including the Left Front) in favor of the "war on terror" and 
the state of emergency, the revolutionary stick together. More than 500 people 
participated in the rally "against terrorism, war and racism," the evening of Tuesday, 
November 24, in the gymnasium of the Bidassoa, Paris 20th. A voice against the current, 
but will further as events give us reason. ---- In the wake of the attacks of 13 November 
in Paris, it originally planned rally by the NPA on the conflict in Air France was 
expanded and turned into a single meeting. ---- All organizations signing the joint 
declaration "Their war, our dead" - and even beyond - were invited to speak. Alternative 
Libertaire, Lutte Ouvrière, the OCML-VP and Kurdish Democratic Council in France and had 
delegated speakers and female speakers. We also heard Mathieu Santel (SOUTH-Air) struggles 
to return to Air France - whose "torn shirts" were only the most spectacular episode - and 
Baby, an Ethiopian immigrant who has lived in six months the hell of the "jungle" of Calais.

92 postal workers in struggle came to a support collection. In the context, it would also 
have been necessary that ciblé.es militant.es by police following the demonstration of 22 
November are prohibited présent.es, but apparently it was not possible - a GA was held on 
this issue at the same time the CICP.

Below, significant extracts of each intervention + the speech verbatim of Alternative 
Libertaire.

The full speech can be heard on the NPA website.
http://www.npa2009.org/videos/meeting-contre-le-terrorisme-la-guerre-et-le-racisme

LIBERTARIAN ALTERNATIVE ADDRESS

Dear comrades-es,

In preparing this unit rally against the military escalation, the security escalation and 
racist onslaught, we can only take note of the fact that we are more than ever against the 
current.

In front of us there is great national unity in favor of extending the state of emergency, 
involving all senators and almost all members of the FN to the Left Front.

In front of us, there is the continuous flow of news channels that reflect the legitimate 
emotion of a population hit by violent jihadists hate but completely zap reflection on the 
political consequences of the attacks.

In front of us, there is finally the reactionaries of all stripes who are rubbing their 
hands in maintaining shameful amalgam between migrants, Muslim-es and terrorists. That is 
the depressing side.

But we can of course not stop there.

Our task is to address the concerns of our colleagues, our friend-es, our family, all 
those and all those who may have a very vague idea of what it means to "imperialism" and 
have a very vision part of all involved state of emergency.

The challenge now is to open a breach in the national consensus that fell on us like a 
lead weight.

We have no miracle solution but we believe that we must go in two directions:

We must first of all go to the field of the battle of ideas, by digging the questions 
anyone can ask and endeavoring to make simple but not simplistic answers.

First burning question: what to intervene militarily?

To answer this, it is not necessary to convene the anti-imperialist breviary, just 
remember some evidence:

an international coalition intervened in Afghanistan in 2001 did the situation is set today

the United States and its closest allies intervened in Iraq from 2003: is that the 
situation is resolved today?
a new international coalition now wants to drown under the bombs Syria: Is this going to 
solve the solution? There are reasons to doubt ...
Especially as France is hypocritical when it claims to conduct a "war on terror" but 
continues to kowtow Qatar, Saudi Arabia that fund covertly jihadism to maintain their 
influence in the region.

So what to do to overcome Daech on the ground?

What to repeat is that Syria shelling can put a temporary brake on the progress of the 
Islamic state but brings no long-term solution.

In Syria and Iraq, we must say that the best response is to support the progressive forces 
who fight on the front line facing Daech. Among these progressive forces, there is the 
Syrian Kurdish militias who not only military defeats inflicted for IR (to Kobanî, 
Tall-Abyad in Sinjar) but also defend a political alternative with a social project 
democratic, secular, feminist and environmentalist.

Second question: how to stop the development of jihadism in France?

The solution advocated by the government is the extension and strengthening of the state 
of emergency facilitated with house arrest. Meanwhile, the government does not hesitate to
draw on the far right of the program:

allow police to keep their weapons outside their service time;
establish a "presumption of self-defense" to the police (that is to say, recognize without 
asking any question that the police always strikes to defend ...);
deprive of their nationality binational involved in terrorism cases, thus believe that 
there is a direct link between immigrants and terrorists.
Faced with all this, we must remember that security measures are very effective in 
reducing civil liberties but they are much less effective for solving the problem of 
terrorism.

The scapegoats of this security climate is known in advance: all those and all those who 
have the misfortune of not having the right skin color, not having the right papers or not 
to live in good neighborhoods.

The solution is not the withdrawal and the permanent state of exception, the solution is 
more solidarity and social justice. The challenge is to treat the causes of social unrest, 
not just focus on the symptoms.

Which brings us to the second direction in which we must go: along the battle of ideas, 
push toward more solidarity and more organization to the database.

The attacks have sparked a lot of emotion, but also a lot of anger and revolt.

For this revolt is not exploited by speeches Will in war, we must offer prospects for 
collective action and struggle to change society.

We need to coordinate us to propose other collective experiences, strengthen neighborhood 
solidarity, the associative fabric, local union structures, etc.

As for the mass organizations in which we find ourselves, push the same to keep the 
strikes, keep the rallies short, keep the timetable of the social movement independently 
of political power.

As such we believe that we must express our solidarity with the 58 protesters whose 
identity police transmitted to the prosecutor following the rally of solidarity with 
migrants held Sunday, November 22.

During Cop21, we also will push that the challenge to continue to speak. This is not the 
draconian measures that stifle our thirst struggles and social justice.

Photos: William / AL Montreuil
Photo: Marie-Au Palacio / AL northeast Paris

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