To cope with the holding of a National Rally event in Le Havre, the various
organizations of the social movement managed to coordinate and join forces toorganize a popular and unitary counter-event. ---- This May 1st in Le Havre, theNational Gathering bunkered in a private event complex held its first Nation Day,for which Bardella and Le Pen were in the spotlight. In the open air, the morningdemonstration on May Day, here usually gloomy, brought together more than 12,000people and took on libertarian colors in a dense and determined anti-fascistprocession. In the afternoon, an important counter-event took place: concerts andan activist village bringing together a large part of the union, political andassociative forces of the ocean city.In this industrial-port city, where the militant landscape has long beenstructured around a hegemonic CGT and PCF resistant to collective elaboration,this unitary response was not self-evident. And if Le Havre had an anti-fascisttradition in the 1990s, it has gradually declined until today. In this contextand in just four weeks, it was necessary to build a particularly broad unitaryanti-fascist coordination because of the occasion.Diversity of means of actionIn the momentum of the social movement, this coordination succeeded inestablishing a unitary framework solid enough to catalyze the living forces. Bydecompartmentalising militant universes, it has enabled the implementation ofjoint actions including training and the creation of a unitary and festiveanti-fascist procession. Trade unions and political organizations, but alsofeminists, anti-racists and LGBTQI+, were able to come together around the sameobjective and the same practices of struggle.The strategy for this day was determined by a tug of war between a desire toorganize a large-scale workers' party to "invisibilize" the RN and that of aspecific mobilization against their coming. If the objective of preventing theholding of the RN event was not retained, the acceptance of a plurality oftactics of struggle made it possible to avoid points of tension and to make roomfor the creativity of the means of action. In this dynamic, for example, a rallywas held at the end of April in tribute to two victims of racist murders in the1990s, perpetrated by far-right activists. On the other hand, if the militantvillage succeeded in bringing in a population less militant than thedemonstrations, the objective of mobilizing the popular and racialized classes,however posed by the coordination, was not really achieved, with the notableexception of the convoy of the Parisian Solidarity March descended for the occasion.In Le Havre, this experience paved the way for new fighting practices. It showsthe need for and the interest of a broad, established anti-fascist front(inter-organ coordination, VISA), which is capable of monitoring and having areactive and offensive capacity. Faced with an extreme right that is stepping upits attacks on workers' struggles, we must lead popular responses with a clearambition: to crush it wherever it seeks to exist.Claire, Hadrian, Malo, Pierre (UCL Le Havre - Caen link)Read also our article Against Marine Le Pen's "Nation Day": Huge anti-fascist MayDay in the streets of Le Havrehttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Fete-populaire-contre-l-extreme-droite-Premier-mai-antifasciste-et-unitaire-au_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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