On the weekend of January 11 and 12, two half-days of reflection were
held in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis). They followed a previous meeting,entitled "What to do?", organized after the legislative elections of
June 2024. The theme chosen for this new meeting, "the alliance of
towers and towns", took up the opposition created in the media for
several years between the rural white working classes and the racialized
urban classes. ---- The rhetoric of opposition between towers and towns
has recently found an echo through its resumption by François Ruffin.
This weekend brought us together to discuss it, alongside the
Soulèvements de la Terre, Autonomie de classe, the NPA-A, the POI,
members of the Institut de la Boétie, deputies of La France insoumise as
well as decolonial activists from QG décolonial/Parole d'honneur and
others, over different discussion periods. For our part, we spoke in the
closing plenary session entitled "Défaire le noeud du racisme, refaire
peuple"[1].
Our speech focused on an analysis of the significant social protests in
the towers and towns, briefly returning to the Gilets jaunes and then to
the revolts in the suburbs following the murder of Nahel. We also
developed an understanding of racism as a justification for a state of
superexploitation and very current colonial and imperialist policies and
as a primary obstacle to any revolution or socialist horizon.
Anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles must be among our priorities.
We reaffirmed the need for real solidarity with the Overseas
Territories, victims of French colonialism, or identified the threat of
the "war on terror" that has justified imperialist wars for decades and
that allows the targeting of Muslims and the decline of our freedoms. We
must speak in our terms and not according to how the debate was posed:
we seek to recreate a class consciousness, beyond racism, to build our
balance of power with a view to a socialist revolution. Not only "to
make people", because we do not want to make people with the capitalists.
What unites the towers and the towns is work. Unions can also become
supports and tools to lead the anti-racist fight against discrimination
at work, for example against the exclusion of veiled women. A door was
opened with the work of the Collective against Islamophobia in France
(CCIF), which it is up to us to continue as trade unionists.
This revolutionary speech may have seemed out of step with many of the
speakers who are close to La France insoumise (LFI) or who have a more
intellectual profile. Our approach in this context was not to shoot at
LFI, but to explain that we cannot rely on them in the construction of a
balance of power necessary to snatch victories from the bourgeoisie and,
ultimately, overthrow this capitalist system that crushes us. We fulfill
a different role at UCL. We try at our level to organize our class
through the union tool and, more broadly, counter-powers, which we
define as being combative, massive and democratic, with a view to
building a revolutionary rupture and then establishing real popular power.
Louna (UCL Anti-Racism Commission)
Validate
[1]"Undoing the knot of racism, remaking the people", closing plenary
available on the Parole d'honneur YouTube channel.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Perspectives-antiracistes-L-alliance-des-tours-et-des-bourgs-ou-comment-faire
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