WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #350 - UCL press release, Block the RN, prepare the counterattack! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 RN access to Matignon would be a disaster. The current bulwark is the

Popular Front. But fundamentally, it is collective struggles and a
strong social movement that will constitute an alternative to liberalism
and fascism. ---- That's it, we are there. The fascist threat that has
been growing for forty years is at the gates of power. And she didn't
get there alone. The socialist (PS), Gaullist (UMP, LR) and liberal
(Macron) governments have made short work of it by trivializing the
ideas of the extreme right to mask their liberal and anti-social policies.

What the RN will not do, if it wins:
- reduce retirement to 60;
- resurrect public services;
- repopulate medical deserts;
- improve purchasing power. Because any government that manages
capitalism goes in its direction.

What he will most certainly do:
- to hide that he is doing the same thing as Macron, Hollande-Valls or
Sarkozy, he will spend his time persecuting the "bad French" (LGBTI,
strikers, ecologists, etc.), the "false French" (blacks, Arabs, Muslims,
etc.);
- he will emphasize a policy that benefits the rich, as Macron does and
as his models Orban, Putin, Erdogan, Netanyahu, Meloni do;
- he will cut public services to reduce taxes on the rich, he proved it
by applauding the abolition of the ISF;
- it will attack women's rights, particularly access to abortion, and
will slow down the recognition of sexist and sexual violence;
- it will promote the use of pesticides which poison rural areas, and
accelerate the climate disaster;
- it will break up public broadcasting which bothers the large
capitalist groups and in particular that of their friend Bolloré;
- it will encourage police crimes which will multiply, as will attacks
by small nationalist groups.

What we need to do:
- Defend our rights and freedoms, particularly those of the people the
RN will hit first (trans minors, LGBTI people, disabled people,
migrants, Muslims, etc.);
- join all popular initiatives (neighborhood assemblies, demonstrations,
rallies) to say no to the RN, and support youth in their massive
mobilization;
- convince that the National Rally is the enemy of our class.

We need to strengthen counter-powers in companies and neighborhoods:
struggle unions, feminist, anti-racist associations, etc. But also
revolutionary organizations, including UCL. We must also ask the
question of unifying combative unions to be stronger. In June 1936, it
was the general strike that allowed us to win all the social conquests
(40-hour week, paid leave, etc.). The Popular Front government only
chased after the events. It is only a strong social movement that will
make it possible to build an alternative to liberalism and fascism.

VOTE WITHOUT ILLUSIONS OR SCRUPULES
Rather than a far-right government, we prefer to face a left-wing
government. We do not expect social change from this. Voting Popular
Front is a tactical choice, it is about obtaining a respite. Whichever
government emerges from the polls, the social movement will have to
fight to advance its own demands. Popular front against the
reactionaries, social revolution against capital!

Federal coordination of UCL, June 16, 2024

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Bloquer-le-RN-preparer-la-contre-attaque
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