#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #330 - Immigration, Macron is preparing an RN-compatible return (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 While the summer of 2022 will remain one of the hottest and driest since climate

data has been measured, the government is preparing for the start of the school
year a major debate on... immigration ! Without regard for the ecological and
social disaster, Macron is already counting on the LR and RN voices to push
through his anti-social and racist reforms. ---- The consequences of global
warming and climate change are already being felt. The announced catastrophe will
lead to a worsening of social inequalities, but the capitalists continue to deny
the urgency. The summer that is coming to an end has set temperature records in
several cities : 35°C in Toulouse, 39.1°C in Nantes, 40°C in Bordeaux and almost
43°C in Biarritz. The drought that has hit almost the entire territory is the
most intense that France has known since the middle of the 20th century. The
fires which have ravaged more than 50,000 hectares, sparing no region, in
particular Landes and Brittany, add to this year of all records.

The forest burns and they watch their profits
We are far from the sudden ecological awareness and the calls for the " people of
the left ", of use during the campaign between two presidential rounds, where
Macron seemed to discover the benefits of ecological planning, taking up the
vocabulary of a Jadot or a Mélenchon. The presidential agenda has shifted today
to ecological and social damage. Macron re-elected, the legislative campaign that
followed was led on the right, against the leftist danger that the Nupes would
represent... Today 90 RN or related deputies sit in the National Assembly and the
parliamentary session which has already proven that the government complacently
relies on far-right voices to push through its economic and anti-social measures.

The governmental ways put forward today to deal with the consequences of our
dependence on fossil fuels boil down to asking individuals to turn off the lights
! While everywhere the consequences of the system of overexploitation of the
planet's resources are being felt strongly and lastingly, the answer is above all
not to change anything in this system and to appeal to individual responsibility
so that everyone makes a small gesture. Private jets will continue to transport
the profiteers of this system. The essential is safe: to preserve the profits of
the capitalist exploiters. The hummingbird policy... except that the forest is
burning (literally) and it is high time to act accordingly.

On the side of the FNSEA it is the same blindness. Farmers are the first to feel
the consequences of the disaster on a daily basis, but we persist in promoting
French competitiveness on world markets. How to respond to the crisis ?
Increasingly promote intensive agriculture, and rely blindly on
scientific-technological solutionism to put off until tomorrow the measures
necessary for a return to peasant agriculture that exploits neither humans nor
animals and preserves our bio-ecological capital.

On August 3, Gérald Darmanin announced a " great debate " as a prelude to the
Senate's examination of his immigration bill. Why announce this debate on
immigration in the middle of summer when the minister was pleased at the end of
June with an assured majority to vote for the text with the LRs (and the RN whom
he knowingly omitted to quote) ? No doubt to " speak to the guts of French " ! At
the end of July again, Darmanin denied the lack of means to fight the fires, but
was proud of his results in terms of repression: 2,500 withdrawals of residence
permits and 70,000 refusals to issue or renew permits since October 2020 and the
removal of " 2,751 perpetrators of disturbances to public order " before a few
days later proudly announcing the opening of new administrative detention centers
(CRA).

Declare your love for reaction
Anticipating the anger and social opposition to come, Macron, determined to carry
out his pension reform, lights a counterfire. Its objective is to establish an
ever more unjust system for the most precarious and to get rid of the principles
of solidarity which prevailed until then. Because it is indeed the principle of
solidarity, fundamentally incompatible with the capitalist system of
exploitation, which the liberals attack wherever it had been promoted after the
Second World War. For some forty years now, the reforms promoted by the
neoliberals have never ceased to attack and put an end to what in their eyes
appears to be an aberration: promoting solidarity rather than war of all against all.

In this fight, the liberals can count on the support of reactionaries of all
stripes. By creating a diversion on the issue of immigration and pointing out
what would be THE problem, Macron thinks he can do a double blow. Faced with the
crisis we are experiencing, look away from non-existent ecological and social
measures and unite the voices of the right and the far right.

Political competitors, the liberals and the extreme right do not hesitate to ally
themselves against the interests of our class. If they share the same hatred for
the principles of solidarity, they have another point in common, their love for
fossil fuels. In his essay, Écofascismes, Antoine Dubiau very rightly points out
that " for the time being[the far right]remains more concerned with the defense
of the Western way of life doped with fossil fuels than with the ongoing
ecological devastation ". The defense of carbon energies, and by the way of the
profits that the capitalists derive from them, is to defend the " material base
of Western civilization "[1].

The cynical policies of Macron and the liberals make the bed of the far right. It
has now firmly established itself in the political landscape and it is its racist
and security obsessions that now dictate the political agenda of the right-wing
parties, LREM and LR. Liberals and reactionaries feed off each other, but it is
to be feared that the instrumentalization of racist and reactionary themes for
the purpose of dividing the proletariat will end up permanently installing the
far right in power. The consequences for minorities and the social movement as a
whole would be catastrophic. Those of our camp tempted by accelerationism should
think twice: the far right installed with the means of the state machine is the
amplification of the level of repression.

These attacks call for firm responses from the social movement. To effectively
combat the anti-social reforms of the liberal-authoritarian Macron, unity must be
unwavering, but it is not enough. Faced with the ecological and social emergency,
it is imperative to be on the offensive to impose a counter-project for a social,
alternative and united society. Fighting anti-social reforms in rediscovered
class unity and brotherhood also means rolling back the racist projects of the RN
and Darmanin. The social struggle is an anti-racist struggle. Let's find the path
of struggles!

David (UCL Chambery)

To validate

[1]Antoine Dubiau, Ecofascisms, Grévis Editions, Caen, 2022

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