We have received a call from our comrades in the Libertarian Communist Union for the creation of a "broad and united antifascist front." We are publishing it, along with our response explaining why we will not be signatories to this initiative. ---- More than ever: united and antifascist! ---- On the evening of Thursday, February 12, in Lyon, Quentin Deranque, a fascist activist, was hospitalized in critical condition before dying two days later. The far right immediately launched a communications campaign to impose its version of events, although many questions remain unanswered regarding the sequence of events. We, left-wing political organizations, wish to place this death within its Lyon and national context.
In Lyon, the far right has perpetrated over a hundred attacks since 2010. Targets include people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, union members, and anyone displaying left-wing symbols. Threats and attacks are proliferating against activists, as well as against public spaces and events. In their training ground, "La Traboule," fascists practice fighting, killing, and dying for their cause. Any left-wing activism-whether union, community, or political-now exposes individuals to physical danger.
In France, statistics show it unequivocally: the far right commits over 90% of political murders. It has already killed 59 people since 1986. Drowned in the Deule River: Brahim Bouraam, Clément Méric, Federico Aramburù, Mahamadou Cissé, Djamel Bendjaballah, Rochdi Lakhsassi, Kurdish activists from Rue d'Enghien, Hichem Miraoui, Ismaël Aali on January 6th... The list is too long, and the moments of silence too rare for the victims of racism and the far right.
In this context, associations, unions, political parties, residents, and business owners in Lyon and elsewhere have been mobilizing for years to raise awareness about the increase in this violence. In this context, activists from all walks of life have built popular and mass self-defense structures against Nazism, fascism, nationalism, white supremacy, royalism, antisemitism, and the entire nebula of the most reactionary ideologies.
We acknowledge the necessity of this self-defense.
We call for the formation of a broad and united antifascist front, present in the streets to defend our feminist demands on March 8th and our antiracist demands on March 14th and 21st.
Facing the fascists: a united front! Not a step backward!
Signatures:
Libertarian Communist Union
Dear comrades,
We have received your proposal to sign your "brief unified statement."
As we stated in our press release of February 23, "It is within the framework of social struggles that the anti-fascist, not anti-capitalist, response to the bourgeoisie can become widespread, and that we can rid ourselves of the monstrous beast, which is but one of the faces of capitalist barbarity." Therefore, it seems to us pointless and ineffective to form a united front with forces that support the capitalist system and that, in some cases, use anti-fascism for political score-settling.
A united front is not a temporary alliance against commandos, nor is it simply solidarity against repression; currently, this would be a strategy that would inevitably lead to electoral opportunism. It is unthinkable for us, and probably for you as well, to call for blocking fascism through the ballot box. That would be a republican front, not a class front.
Furthermore, summarizing the current situation with the term "rise of fascism" seems to us a sign of our inability to understand the new forms of domination being established and to effectively combat them, which are undoubtedly as terrible as fascism itself.
Joint discussions and research on these issues would seem more useful to us than "appeals" that sound somewhat hollow. Moreover, not considering ourselves a vanguard, we are generally reluctant to "appeal," but that's another matter.
We are always available to discuss these issues calmly, including publicly.
Therefore, we will not sign this statement. We are also forwarding you the one published by the OCL on February 23rd.
Libertarian Communist Organization
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4651
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Link: (en) France, OCL: For a united antifascist front? (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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