In 2021, in a small provincial town, a fight for the regularization of a
young migrant threw his host family into the arena of administration.The institutional matadors, in addition to delivering the final blow to
young Mamadou, attacked those who had only offered a place to live to
young exiles. OQTF: The Condemned, under the rebellious pen of Michel
Touchestone, tells this story. ---- In an imaginary world, transformed
by the victory of President Michon and his Prime Minister Murène La Fen,
a migration policy is put in place whose objective is to expel all
migrants. The prefectures, transformed into "intendancies", become the
gates of Hell with, as in that of Dante, different expiatory circles.
Faced with this, a powerful movement of resistance and solidarity with
the victims is built.
At once a work of fiction, a fictionalized story, a testimony and a
political-historical reflection, the book resembles a Rubik's Cube in
which you have to successfully arrange the small cubes to form first one
facet, then two... and give the whole its coherence. The author wanted
to reconstruct life paths, which cannot be summed up as administrative
procedures. Child welfare, prefectures, police, courts, the author
dismantles a whole complex mechanism of institutional abuse. Behind it
hides the hydra of state racism, imbuing counter practices with numerous
stereotypes.
Mr. Touchestone wanted to go beyond this reality. Understanding in order
to better fight is perhaps the key expression of this novel, which
invites us to delve into colonial history, that of the exiles and their
journey, but also the strong resistance of their loved ones to
injustice. This novel is also and above all a story of struggle: from
mobilizations to a hunger strike, without forgetting the repression with
the GAV and the courts.
The novelistic form interspersed with testimonies allows for a range of
feelings. Passages of great tenderness for the young refugees, for Eva,
a combative and determined foster mother. But also humor, irony,
sarcasm, without hiding anything about the fragility of the activists,
such as when Nemo sees Eva, his partner, disappear in the police jails.
A message of recognition to all the supporters of this struggle for
emancipation runs through this 500-page work. These are several books in
one that invite you to let yourself be carried away by the waves of a
frenzied narration, in the meanders of a story with resolutely plural
writing.
Véronique and Eric (UCL le Puy)
The book should soon be available in bookstores at a price of 20 euros.
All profits will be donated to an association that helps young exiles.
In the meantime, to order or organize a meeting around the book, you can
write to micheltouchstone1871@gmail.com
Michel Touchestone, OQTF: Les condamnés, Self-published, 2024, 500
pages, 20 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Michel-Touchestone-OQTF-Les-condamnes
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