#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL AL #329 - Palais-Bourbon: 89 elected RNs - accomplice macronists (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Unable to respond to the social crisis other than by the most authoritarian and

police solutions, the liberals of LREM have boosted the score of the fascist
party... which they seem to prefer even to left-wing reformism! ---- The result
of the legislative elections is without appeal: the RN arrives in force, the
Nupes and Macron fail with an absolute majority and the abstention is record. The
most shocking is obviously the score of the RN which almost triples its best
result at the time of its first entry into the National Assembly in 1986. ----
More than 90 deputies including a certain number of fascists enter parliament
with the help of Macron. This massive and unprecedented presence since the
establishment of the Fifth Republic is one more sign of the electoral advance of
the far right, but also of the creeping fascism of the state, through the cynical
tactics of a liberal camp. ready to open the dikes to stay in power.

Uninhibited racists
The RN becomes the second political party represented in the National Assembly,
ahead of rebellious France. In 1986 and because of the establishment of a
proportional share by Mitterrand in the legislative elections, the FN entered the
National Assembly with 35 deputies.

This maneuver by the socialist president to avoid cohabitation with the RPR (now
LR) is the same implemented thirty-six years later by the neo-liberal camp,
through his declarations putting on an equal footing the electoral alliance of
the left (the Nupes) and the RN.

The result is simply catastrophic. However, historical examples are not lacking
to remind us that when the fascists are legitimized and reach positions of power,
it is difficult to get them out.

With 89 seats, the RN may have just established itself permanently in state
bodies, and in any case has the necessary weight to be able to impose its themes
at the very heart of parliamentary debate : xenophobia, racism, authoritarianism.

Indeed, he will be able to weigh against a weakened presidential camp, without a
majority, always more violent, by promising to be the guarantor of order against
the left that the power has striven to demonize. This is all the more likely
since some of the elements of nationalist ideology were already present in the
politics of the current presidential majority.

Millions for the RN
For the RN, this victory pays off big, also financially. On the one hand, the
number of votes obtained earns the party a fixed annual sum. On the other hand,
each elected official will allow the RN to lock in relatives of the Le Pen clan,
to recycle former members who are less "sortable" as parliamentary attachés.

Finally, millions of euros (around 10 million per year for the RN) of public
subsidies accompany the posts of deputy, normally to animate the democratic life
of their constituency.

While the party was devitalizing from within in recent years, some of its
executives and activists had left the ship, by these results, the RN will once
again be able to develop, perhaps even like never before.

By passing electorally in front of the traditional party of the right, it can
deprive it of the place of political springboard for the young notables of the
upper classes, even if the experience of the FN/RN in the European Parliament has
clearly shown that it would use it rather to line the coffers of the massively
indebted party and the pockets of its leaders. But it is our money that will
finance the racist exits of the members of the RN.

Allies to defend capitalism
If this RN score is unexpected, it is not totally unexpected. The strategy of
demonization carried out for years and well known reached a new stage during this
election, when several members of the presidential majority (such as the beaten
minister Amélie de Montchalin, or the former minister also beaten Christophe
Castaner) put their backs on the back of the fascist threat and the "anarchists
of the Nupes" who would threaten order and the Republic.

The Macronist candidates made little call to beat the RN in the second round.
DR
Moreover, a large majority of the LREM candidates beaten in constituencies
opposing RN and Nupes in the 2nd round did not express an anti-RN vote
instruction, some having even maintained themselves, allowing the victory of the
RN candidates in the triangular framework.

The last dikes jumped in the face of fear of a victory for the left. As in every
crisis situation, authoritarian liberals have shown their preference for fascism
in the face of a risk of moderate control of capitalism.

By their failure to respond to the problems of the moment (inflation, ecological
crisis, wage increases, etc.) other than by the most authoritarian and police
solutions, they have voluntarily opened the way to such a score from a fascist party.

The elections pass, the struggle continues
We have said it and repeated it throughout the whole period and we will repeat it
again: fascism is fought at the base, by the base!

As anti-fascist, anti-capitalist and revolutionary activists, we cannot rely
solely on a parliamentary counterweight to confront the fascists and their ideas.

The past electoral sequence, it is in the street and through the struggles that
we will wage against racist policies, against fascist threats that we will push
them back. It is by building a strong social movement, closer to the interests of
our camp, that of the exploited and against the dominations that we suffer, that
we will reduce the fascist threat.

Reducing this pressure also necessarily involves direct and real engagement
against all far-right groups, from the RN to the multiple fascist bands, on the
ground.

This is why we call on all the organizations of the social and revolutionary
left, combative trade union organizations and the social movement to invest in
the field of the anti-fascist struggle and to build, locally and nationally, the
tools to lead the fight effectively against the extreme right and its ideas.

We call for the unity of the anti-fascist camp, because the divisions and
disputes that lead us into absurd and counterproductive situations are definitely
below the stakes of our time and lastingly undermine our capacities to fight.
Don't let them win any longer.

Libertarian Communist Union, June 22, 2022

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