The French Progressives Show Us How to Fight Fascism
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Raleigh Myers
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The French Progressives Show Us How to Fight Fascism
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Mass protests on the streets of France
Organisers claim 3m people join marches
Sarkozy floods Paris with 4,000 riot police
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1741685,00.html
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets
of France yesterday, disrupting schools and transport in
a nationwide strike to pressure the prime minister,
Dominique de Villepin, to withdraw his controversial new
employment law.
Organisers of the marches claimed that three million
people joined marches with major demonstrations in
Marseille, Bordeaux and a dozen cities and towns across
the country. In Paris, unions estimated that 700,000
people joined the biggest and most heavily policed
demonstration that snaked its way to Place de la
Republique over several hours led by students,
schoolchildren and trade unionists, including striking
Air France workers.
Police fired teargas into the crowd as isolated
skirmishes broke out after the rally, with gangs of
hooded teenagers throwing traffic cones and taunting
police. Some 50 baton-wielding trade union security
guards clashed with another group of young people who
tried to break the iron gates of a lingerie shop.
Keen to avoid a repeat of the violence that marred last
week's protest, when gangs of youths with baseball bats
attacked demonstrators and torched cars in the centre of
the city, the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, had
flooded the Paris route with 4,000 riot police,
instructing them to arrest "as many people as possible"
and saying they would be judged on "the number of
arrests and your cool".
Paris police said they made 105 arrests. Officers were
armed with guns of indelible ink to fire at
troublemakers.
At the edges of the march, plain-clothed police snatch
squads grabbed youths, many of them black, and forced
them towards riot vans or frisked them as others shouted
that the police were "fascists and racist".
The street demonstrations were the sixth in one month
against Mr de Villepin's controversial "first employment
contract", which he continued yesterday to insist was
the only way to combat France's crippling youth
employment figures - the worst in western Europe.
The contract paradoxically seeks to increase the number
of young people in work by allowing employers a two-year
period when they can fire workers aged under 26 without
cause. This would alleviate the effect for employers of
France's rigidly protective employment laws.
Mr de Villepin faced widening cracks in his ruling
conservative party yesterday. Mr Sarkozy, a contender in
next year's presidential elections, made a clear break
from the prime minister's strategy of standing firm by
suggesting yesterday that the law should be put on hold
to allow talks with unions.
The prime minister told parliament he was open to
discussing amendments but refused to withdraw the
contract. "Only in action will we convince all of the
French that tomorrow can be better than today," he told
the national assembly, to heckling from opposition
parties. The strikes slowed train, bus and plane
services to a fraction of their normal level, with Air
France stopping flights and easyJet cancelling 44
flights through French airspace.
At least one third of state school teachers walked off
the job, joined by postal, bank, gas and electricity
workers. No national newspapers were published and TV
and radio was limited, with France's major news station
playing classical music all day. It was the first time
that unions had ordered a nationwide walkout in
solidarity with students leading protests against Mr de
Villepin's government.
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Timeline: the revolt over French labour reform
Published: March 27 2006
Jan 16 -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
unveiled his labour law liberalisation package,
entitlked the Contrat de Premi�¨r Embauche (CPE), and
said that "urgent" action was needed to "bring the
French labour market into the modern era". The law would
see employers hire 18-26 year olds on two-year contracts
that would allow them to fire the youths without notice
or explanation.
Jan 30 -- Student union bodies called for meetings to
mobilise a response to the CPE.
Feb 7 -- Between 200,000 and 400,000 youths and trade
union members held more than 100 demonstrations across
France.
Between Feb 7 and March 7 -- Students began occupying
French universities to strike and block buildings. This
was also a period of staggered two-week holidays at many
French universities.
March 7 -- Up to a million high school students,
university students and young workers took part in
dozens demonstrations across France. Approximately half
of France's universities were occupied by protesters.
March 9 -- Riot police evicted 1,000 students who
occupied Sorbonne University.
March 13 -- Protests took place throughout France and
half of the country's universities were on strike. The
College de Paris was occupied by 3,000 youths.
March 14 -- Students in Nantes occupied the central
train station. Riot police blocked students from gaining
access to buildings at Sorbonne University.
March 16 -- More than 600,000 youths demonstrated in the
streets throughout France.
March 18 -- Union members joined the student
demonstrators and rioting flared in the Place de la
Nation in Paris. Riot police responded with tear gas and
made 167 arrests. Witnesses said that they saw national
riot police beat a man unconscious. The man was
identified as 39-year-old postal worker and union
member, Cyril Ferez. He briefly regained consciousness
before lapsing into a coma.
March 20 -- Unions called for a strike to be held on
March 28.
Compiled by Alan Rappeport
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I may be singing to the choir with these talking points, but there are over six billion people who need attitude adjustment as you were in the same need just a bit ago. They need this help because many of you did not share your newly acquired awareness with them. If you have made your contribution please use these points for more outreach _ give them a piece of your MIND.
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For Gandhi, the function of non-violent action was to make the hidden violence of institutions, of the "established disorder" visible; in the same way, we have wanted to make visible the violence done to peasants, citizens, science, democracy, and to the simple duty to govern. The French legal system has finally understood that so that we may all grasp the consequences.
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Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large corporations is the
definition of fascism. http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
-Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much of higher
consideration.
-Abraham Lincoln
Under the placid surface [of the economy], there are disturbing trends: huge
imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them what you will.
Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable
as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot.
Paul Volcker, Former US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman
April 10, 2005.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible, and they are stupid."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html
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Raleigh Myers
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Call to Action blog a virtual seminar for change. I may be singing to the choir, with these talking points, but there are over six billion people who need attitude adjustment as you were in the same need just a bit ago. They need this help because many of you did not share your newly acquired awareness with them. If you have made your contribution please use these points for more outreach_give them a piece of your MIND.
http://raenergy.igc.org/ArchitypeOfFairness.html#Think
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs& And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one design.
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