As the extreme right is progressing all over the world and particularly
in France, strategic debates are being raised on the best way to preventit from winning the ideological battle. Here are some avenues for
reflection resulting from a collective and united reflection. ---- On
December 14, a public meeting organized by UCL and PEPS (Pour une
Écologie populaire et sociale) was held in Montreuil in front of about
sixty people. This meeting is the first initiative born from the desire
of our two organizations to meet to discuss our common points,
disagreements and actions. Two round tables followed one another: on
communalism and one on antifascism. The latter had as its angle the
fight against the extreme right in general - without limiting itself to
convinced "fascists" -: it brought together a member of the UCL
Antifascism Commission, a spokesperson for PEPS and one from the Young
Guard.
The discussions in the gallery and with the audience allowed certain
themes to emerge: the centrality of racism in the extreme right's
discourse, the need to fight the latter wherever it is found, the need
to fight together without giving in on our essential slogans. From this
common base, the discussions allowed us to question the different fields
of action. Thus, the threat that the control of information through the
acquisition of the press (Bolloré, Stérin) or social media (Musk) poses
on our social camp, the intrinsic link between capitalism and fascism,
or even vigilance in the face of identity-based discourses. We were able
to particularly emphasize the various campaigns in which the UCL is
involved, such as the Free Press Fund, the campaign against the
technopolice or the counter-offensive against transphobic hatred.
It is indeed the need to work in a united manner that emerged from this
discussion, without falling into the pitfalls encountered in recent
years, both the virility of the (necessary) street fight against small
groups and the loss of the anti-racist political compass to bring back
the so-called "angry not fascists". We recalled that, if the RN
electorate is not composed solely of fascists, it is still convinced by
a nationalist and racist discourse that places national preference at
the heart as a solution to social problems.
Getting out of the inner circle is to talk to these people, including
when they are themselves victims of oppression or systems of domination
(racism, sexism, capitalism), that we must succeed in recreating
discourses and leading campaigns.
Joint PEPS UCL meeting
The central problem around which the majority of the interventions
revolved was that of perspectives. How can we go beyond our circles
convinced of the need to fight against the extreme right? How can we
speak to the masses without moral paternalism? How can we rebuild a
majority anti-fascist tradition? The location of the meeting, Montreuil,
where the extreme right is extremely weak, and the activist public were
sufficient evidence of the weakness of the social anchoring of these
discourses.
Several avenues were mentioned. The example of the establishment of the
Young Guard Strasbourg in several cities in Alsace served as a reminder
that, in political or associative deserts, recreating the collective was
a necessity. Meeting residents, organizing meetings in different
neighborhoods, discussing everyday problems provides an alternative to
far-right discourse. It is also a way of building concrete local
anti-fascist struggles, such as the united initiative that led to the
closure of the Les Deux cités identity bookstore in Nancy[1]. Given the
weakness of the rural presence of our organizations, relying on existing
structures is essential. The role of the Confédération paysanne has been
praised on several occasions, such as during the farmers' movement of
2024 where it faced the reactionary discourses of the Coordination
rurale and the FNSEA.
We also recalled the importance of unions, the last massive
organizations established throughout the territory, by inviting people
to reinvest in local and departmental unions and to keep labor exchanges
alive. In these places of daily sociability, we can talk to each other,
discuss our problems and build collectives of struggle. But it is
obviously also in the workplace that union investment allows for the
construction of real anti-fascist action. By proving through the
experience of building the collective and social struggles that
solidarity is our strength, we weaken the belief in the authoritarian
solutions of the extreme right. By leading struggles to defend our
racialized colleagues (often the most precarious), we are rebuilding a
class identity that is imposed in the face of the racial compromise
proposed by the RN. Without giving in on the fight against racist,
sexist, LGBTIphobic or conspiratorial discourse, it is important to be
present on the ground and to prove the relevance of our investment. It
is only then, once the convinced fascists have been put in the minority,
that we will be able to ostracize them intransigently.
To get away from incantations, we insisted on victorious initiatives,
such as the campaign to cancel the advertising of Bardella's biography
in train stations, the antifa social forums in Paris and Lyon, or the
antifascist village organized in response to the C9M neo-Nazi
demonstration in 2024, which brought together hundreds of people in
Paris[2]. Other upcoming campaigns, such as "Désarmons Bolloré", promise
an anti-fascist struggle at the crossroads of anti-capitalism and
anti-imperialism. All these examples have highlighted the need for
united work in local collectives - an observation shared by all the
organizations present - with a call to meet again soon to continue our
actions. The task may seem daunting, but it is essential to carry it
out, day after day, to avoid the worst.
Hugo (UCL PNE)
Validate
[1]"Nancy: one less fascist
bookstore!->https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Nancy-Une-librairie-facho-de-moins]!",
Alternative libertaire n° 355, December 2024.
[2]"Village antifasciste: une réussite unitaire et populaire en plein
Paris", Alternative libertaire n° 350, June 2024.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Perspectives-antifascistes-Comment-mener-la-lutte-pour-l-hegemonie-culturelle
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