#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL press release: Support for activists attacked during the meeting of the #fascist #Zemmour (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 On Sunday 5 December, several SOS Racisme activists presented themselves in the

room where the first campaign rally of the now fascist candidate Éric Zemmour was
held. They denounced his racist discourse and took out posters shouting the
slogan " no to racism ", before being violently attacked by part of the public.
---- The far right hurts and kills its political enemies ---- Outside,
anti-fascist activists have also suffered threats and violence from far-right
militias and the police by trying to organize a counter-rally at the meeting
place. After the attack on anti-racist activists, the candidate's security team
was filmed thanking their attackers, while pro-candidate propagandists took to
the television sets to explain that the peaceful activists had " Got what they
were looking for," to quote one of them.

This violence against people who have come to express disagreement is not an
exception, it is the rule and the strategy of the far-right current represented
by Zemmour. His hate speeches have the sole objective of galvanizing his
supporters and inciting them to use violence to silence those who would like to
prevent them from doing harm. The institutional right and the far right rushed to
denounce the provocation of anti-racist activists while softly condemning the
violence they suffered so as not to cut themselves off from their precious racist
support. We can only note that the police are accompanying this process by
systematically protecting the fascists against social forces that would like to
resist them.

We, the Libertarian Communist Union, support social and field anti-fascism, which
is why we express our full solidarity to all those attacked by the extreme right.

It is necessary to rally the anti-fascist forces
We would like to remind that, in the face of fascism, it will not be "  the rule
of law  ", nor an idealist "  republican front  " that will make it possible to
prevail, but indeed a presence in the unions, the autonomous anti-fascist
collectives. , organizations, social movement, in neighborhoods, in work and
production collectives, and in the street. This is all the more true as many of
the so-called "  republican  " parties have explicitly seceded into fascism. A
candidate who arrived in the second round of the LR primary is now asking for the
dissolution of SOS Racisme when others justify the violence by explaining that
one should not start and / or that " no to racism  On t-shirts is a provocation.
This is where we are since the National Rally / National Front was almost
completely cleared by the "  government  " parties . It will be necessary to
quickly carry out the analysis of the strategic orientations chosen, but in the
meantime, we insist on the need to intensify the effort of coordination and
mobilization in the camp of anti-fascism .

Faced with the fascist peril, unity and popular response !

Libertarian Communist Union, December 7, 2021.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Soutien-aux-militant-es-agresse-es-lors-du-meeting-du-fasciste-Zemmour
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