WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL - For a return to social and ecological struggles (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 From Sainte-Soline to Nanterre, from strike pickets to the Earth

Uprisings, our social camp is fighting on all fronts. After a retirement
movement of historic proportions, the country experienced a series of
mobilizations which shook it, both ecologically, socially and
anti-racistly. ---- 40 years after the march for equality, it is still
not good to be a racialized woman in France. Indeed, this 2023 school
year is marked by Islamophobia and young people are particularly
suffering from it following the ban on wearing the abaya in schools.
This misogynistic and Islamophobic offensive is part of the continuity
of policies of control and exclusion of people who are Muslim or
perceived as such, and more particularly women. As a result of these
policies, racialized high school girls see their bodies become an object
of public debate and are refused access to education under the cover of
a distorted conception of secularism. This measure is a new stage in the
extreme right-wing of society. At the government level, the Darmanin
bill reinforces the exploitation of undocumented immigrants and state
racism. The police, including their unions, are now freewheeling. Just
like the far right, whose increased street violence enjoys almost total
impunity.

Systemic racism was also illustrated through the murder of 17-year-old
Nahel last June as well as the cruelly abusive sentences and sanctions
of the rioters, as evidenced by a 10-month prison sentence for the theft
of a can. We demand amnesty for those convicted. Residents of
working-class neighborhoods, neglected by successive governments,
expressed their just anger following yet another racist police murder.
Despite the general lack of establishment of the left in working-class
neighborhoods for decades, the rapid mobilization of the social and
political left made it possible to build the demonstrations of July 6
and the march for social justice, against racism and against police
violence on September 23. This will therefore be decisive in shaping the
future strategy of the left in this movement.

On the ecological front, the year was marked by local struggles: land,
water, forests, nuclear, Lyon-Turin... These struggles were violently
repressed by the government and its police, even if the threats of
dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth were ultimately unsuccessful.
This amplification of environmental struggles testifies to a general
awareness of the need to attack the roots of the ecological and climate
crisis: the control and exploitation of planetary resources by the
bourgeoisie. These struggles will continue in the coming weeks,
particularly with the national coalition "La Déroute des Routes" against
unnecessary road projects.

The destruction of land is accompanied by the destruction of the rights
and living conditions of workers. During the pension movement, the
government showed its determination to continue the destruction of our
rights by using all the means at its disposal, whether institutional or
repressive, as illustrated by the case of Sébastien Menesplier, a CGT
trade unionist, targeted by a judicial summons of a political nature. In
a context where inflation is exploding, struggles are emerging on the
question of wages. For example, at Emmaüs in the North where
undocumented workers are fighting for regularization and a salary
increase. In this sense, October 13, European day against austerity, for
wage increases and equal pay, promises to be a key date in the coming weeks.

These mobilizations have one thing in common: violent repression as the
only response to legitimate aspirations. This unpopular state, booed
both in the streets and in the stadiums, denounced on multiple occasions
by international organizations, nevertheless perseveres in its
authoritarian policies. More than ever, it is time for unity and
organization of our social camp. Three dates will mark this social and
political return to school: September 23 against systemic racism and
police violence, September 28, international abortion rights day and
October 13 for our salaries.

Motion adopted by the Federal Coordination of the Libertarian Communist
Union meeting in Grenoble on September 16 and 17, 2023.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Pour-une-rentree-de-luttes-sociales-et-ecologiques-10091
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