WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL-Lamouette Enragee: In solidarity with Nedjib Sidi Moussa (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We relay the position of our comrades of the Libertarian Communist

Organization in solidarity with Nedjib Sidi Moussa. ---- Nedjib Sidi
Moussa had the audacity to moderate the unconditional enthusiasm for
Boualem Sansal. He has since been the target of the frustrated of French
Algeria or the anxious of Algerian France ---- In his Algerian History
of France[1], Nedjib Sidi Moussa attacks the repressed centrality of the
Algerian question in France. He analyzes 7 events, involving Algeria via
its supporters, its detractors, its nationals or their descendants,
which have punctuated the political, social or cultural chronicle in
France between 1965 and 2016. He shows that the reading of these
historical moments must be done in the light of the Françalgerian
imbrication for those who want to understand the "French cultural wars"
and the fundamental issues on which they most often engage: the
relationship to the other, immigration, xenophobia, the nation,
religion, the State, universalism, secularism, culture, language, borders...

By a return of the repressed of which history has the secret, Nedjib
Sidi Moussa has just brushed against the media firing squad for
insubordination and desertion of the sacred intellectual union currently
being developed. On November 24, he participated with other historians
such as Benjamin Stora and Sébastien Ledoux, in the program C politique
on France 5 about the incarceration in Algeria of the writer Boualem
Sansal, which aroused strong emotion and a strong surge of solidarity in
the French-speaking literary world.

Sidi Moussa had the audacity to moderate the unconditional enthusiasm
for Boualem Sansal, by expressing his discomfort at seeing this
Franco-Algerian writer presented as a herald of the universalism of the
Enlightenment, while he is in cahoots with the extreme right and
promotes speeches on immigration or Muslims worthy of Zemmour and the
National Rally. While emphasizing from the outset that he was "against
all prisons" and that his reservations about the character in no way
justified the repression to which he was subjected.

Nedjib Sidi Moussa then found himself exposed to the vindictiveness of
various editorialists from the reactionary sphere, from Bolloré media to
far-right sites, including Marianne and Le Figaro. The attack quickly
spread to "(so-called) social networks":

"The virulence of the attack forced me to suspend my accounts and
restrict the means of contacting me, particularly on my personal site.
Indeed, this wave of cyberbullying was accompanied by a flood of insults
and threats to my physical integrity.
The scale of this lynching dramatically illustrates the dark times we
are going through. This new episode of the French "culture wars" is a
test for democratic freedoms as well as for our ability to form a
society in a context of multiple crises. " he wrote in a press release
published on December 2
While Stora and Ledoux agreed and expanded on Sidi Moussa's analysis, it
is essentially the latter who has paid the price for this "media
roundup" led by the connected lowbrows. But it is just as much an
"execution for treason" by the most polite of the thought police's
columnists who threaten him. There is no need to look far to find racism
at the root of this story.

But Nedjib Sidi Moussa is not the target of the frustrated of French
Algeria or the anxious of Algerian France only because of his family
origins. It is also his positions as an internationalist and
revolutionary intellectual, backed by a recognized and noted historical
political thought, that make him subversive and threatening to the
Manichean system that serves as critical thought today.

Hated as an Islamophobe by a certain radical left at the release of La
fabrique du Musulman! Disparaged in Algeria for his analyses of the
Hirak! Execrated as a false Frenchman, traitor and supporter of the
Algerian state by the national reaction since November 24... Nedjib Sidi
Moussa is first and foremost a hindrance to thinking in circles. He
gives us food for thought beyond any identity reductionism, in the
tradition of George Orwell who stated that the real problem is "the mind
reduced to the state of a gramophone, whether we agree or not with the
record that is playing at the time"[2].

May Nedjib Sidi Moussa therefore be assured of our support in the fight
he is continuing today.

Libertarian Communist Organization (OCL)
P.S.

A support committee is launched:

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?breve758

Nedjib Sidi Moussa's website: https://sinedjib.com

Notes

[1]published by PUF in 2022.

https://lamouetteenragee.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/05/en-solidarite-avec-nedjib-sidi-moussa
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