WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL press release: Against the fascist peril, let's reinvent hope (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The anti-fascist electoral surge deprived the far right of a majority.

It's a start for a reprieve. Popular mobilization to block in extremis
must continue in the long term to rebuild the political, union and
associative tools for the emancipation of our social class, that of
workers. We will only push back the far right by rebuilding a desirable
political project of equality and justice.
Under the sponsorship of conservative Catholic billionaire Vincent
Bolloré and his media empire (Canal+, Cnews, Journal du Dimanche,
Paris-Match, Europe 1, etc.), the union of the RN with Les Républicains
de Ciotti was achieved. Alliance which allows the fascists to double
their voters and dangerously increase the number of their deputies.
Added to this is the fact that Bardella took over the leadership of
far-right MPs favorable to Putin in the European Parliament.

The dynamics of the RN unleash racist, homophobic, transphobic physical
and verbal attacks on the streets and in businesses... Third political
force in the Assembly but leading political party, the RN will be able
to strengthen its discourse between now and the 2027 presidential
election. anti-system", the "only party we haven't tried yet". The
danger remains.

A Parliament without a majority
The parliamentary kitchen is in turmoil. Bourgeois democracy where
elected officials are out of control is broken. Whatever menu is served
to us, it will not satisfy urgent social, economic, ecological and
anti-racist demands. And it will no longer meet the aspirations for
equality and justice of women, working-class neighborhoods and LGBTI
minorities. At best we can hope that the inevitable compromises between
the three blocs slow down the attacks on the camps of young people and
workers.

Rediscover the taste for political combat
The "people of the left" have suffered so many disappointments, from
Stalinism to social-liberalism, that they have gradually but massively
withdrawn into themselves, abandoning the field to a macronism "at the
same time" of left and right, and allowing the darkest reactionary ideas
to flourish.

Faced with the Bolloré media and galvanized far-right activists, he woke
up, a little in panic. This awakening must be the starting point of a
reconquest and a reconstruction. Ideological reconquest against the
economic fatalism that ultraliberal capitalism imposes on us,
reconstruction of the tools of our resistance.

Place de la République in Paris, on the evening of July 6, spontaneous
anti-fascist rally.
Moral panics about the danger to "French identity"
If voting for the extreme right can be explained in part by the crisis
of capitalism and neoliberal policies implemented for decades, we must
face the ever-increasing adherence of our social camp to racist ideas
and moral panics about the danger to the "French identity" which would
be threatened by French people of foreign origin or binationals, or even
migrants seen as "enemies from within". The far right uses it as its
fuel, but we must weigh the responsibility of the State and decades of
racist and colonial policies, stigmatization and discrimination on the
right and the left, in the name of so-called "republican values".
Fighting the extreme right means cutting it off where it takes root.

Faced with the fascist peril and a capitalist class that is never
satisfied, we must rebuild our unions and our capacity to carry out
serious strikes. Rebuild or expand our neighborhood committees,
feminist, anti-racist and environmentalist associations on combative
bases that can organize actions that are both radical and massive.

Making Communism Desirable Again
The New Popular Front, if it persists, will not be the tool of renewal.
Social democracy will not follow through on its promises and will not be
able to meet the challenge. We must move from anti-capitalism too often
reduced to vague slogans to a strong defense of communism as the only
credible alternative to capitalist globalization and the wars between
major imperialist powers which threaten us - as in Ukraine - and keep
people in misery. and under domination - as in Mayotte, Kanaky or Palestine.

Faithful to their traditions, anchored in popular organizations and in
struggles, libertarian communists must more than ever carry their social
project high: socialization of the means of production and
self-management of society with the tools of direct democracy.

Libertarian Communist Union, July 8, 2024

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Contre-le-peril-fasciste-reinventons-l-espoir
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