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Oppose the state of emergency in France!
The World Socialist Web Site opposes and denounces the imposition of a state of emergency in France by the Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy government. The introduction of this anti-democratic measure, a green light to the CRS riot police and other repressive agencies to launch a full-scale assault on the youth, is a major attack on democratic rights and a threat to the entire French working class. It is not accidental that the use of the law was first publicly broached by Marine Le Pen, daughter and co-thinker of Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of the neo-fascist National Front.
We call on the French working class and the genuinely left-wing elements in the population, for whom the defense of democratic rights and the fight for social equality still has meaning, to come to the defense of the impoverished youth and offer a political perspective in the struggle with sclerotic French capitalism.
The events in the working class suburbs of Paris and hundreds of other towns and cities have their tragic and desperate element, but the blame for the violence lies entirely with the French political establishment, including its “left” and “far left” wings, who are essentially satisfied with the status quo and uninterested in the fate of the working class youth, condemned to bleak lives in wretched surroundings.
The state of emergency announced November 8, along with the call-up of police reservists, authorizes local governments to impose curfews and permits police to conduct raids and searches without warrants. The emergency decree, made possible by a 1955 law, will be in effect for 12 days, but the National Assembly can pass a law extending it, “if necessary.” The curfew was scheduled to take effect at midnight Tuesday in areas yet to be determined. Disobedience could result in a sentence of up to two months in prison, a fine of 3,750 euros, or both.
Under the decree, local officials have the power to place people under house arrest and demand that weapons be handed over. Public spaces can be closed down. The law gives the government the power to restrict freedom of the press and freedom of assembly and to shut down theaters.
The state-run radio station France Inter reported November 8 that no restrictions would be applied to the press and the theater, but a government spokesman refused to confirm this.
The mass general strike of 1968 did not precipitate such a state of emergency. The 1955 law is most associated, and certainly in the minds of the older generation of North African descent, with the violence and torture perpetrated by the French state on the Algerian population and Algerian immigrants in France in the 1950s and 1960s.
On October 17, 1961, for instance, during a mass protest in Paris against a similar emergency curfew, police massacred at least 50 and perhaps as many as 200 Algerian immigrants, beating some of them to death in the courtyard of police headquarters and throwing others, wounded, into the Seine.
Announcing the details of the measure in a crowded National Assembly Tuesday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared that the “restoration of order is a prerequisite ... We face determined individuals, structured gangs, organized criminality, which will not shrink from any means of making disorder and violence reign.”
“The Republic is at a moment of truth ... the violence must stop,” Villepin told the French parliament, adding that the government took “these events as a warning and as an appeal.”
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/fran-n09.shtml
The events in the working class suburbs of Paris and hundreds of other towns and cities have their tragic and desperate element, but the blame for the violence lies entirely with the French political establishment, including its “left” and “far left” wings, who are essentially satisfied with the status quo and uninterested in the fate of the working class youth, condemned to bleak lives in wretched surroundings.
The state of emergency announced November 8, along with the call-up of police reservists, authorizes local governments to impose curfews and permits police to conduct raids and searches without warrants. The emergency decree, made possible by a 1955 law, will be in effect for 12 days, but the National Assembly can pass a law extending it, “if necessary.” The curfew was scheduled to take effect at midnight Tuesday in areas yet to be determined. Disobedience could result in a sentence of up to two months in prison, a fine of 3,750 euros, or both.
Under the decree, local officials have the power to place people under house arrest and demand that weapons be handed over. Public spaces can be closed down. The law gives the government the power to restrict freedom of the press and freedom of assembly and to shut down theaters.
The state-run radio station France Inter reported November 8 that no restrictions would be applied to the press and the theater, but a government spokesman refused to confirm this.
The mass general strike of 1968 did not precipitate such a state of emergency. The 1955 law is most associated, and certainly in the minds of the older generation of North African descent, with the violence and torture perpetrated by the French state on the Algerian population and Algerian immigrants in France in the 1950s and 1960s.
On October 17, 1961, for instance, during a mass protest in Paris against a similar emergency curfew, police massacred at least 50 and perhaps as many as 200 Algerian immigrants, beating some of them to death in the courtyard of police headquarters and throwing others, wounded, into the Seine.
Announcing the details of the measure in a crowded National Assembly Tuesday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared that the “restoration of order is a prerequisite ... We face determined individuals, structured gangs, organized criminality, which will not shrink from any means of making disorder and violence reign.”
“The Republic is at a moment of truth ... the violence must stop,” Villepin told the French parliament, adding that the government took “these events as a warning and as an appeal.”
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/fran-n09.shtml
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r u f..ing nuts? You indorse murder and destruction of private property as a form of protest. A government has to protect its other citizens from mob rule. (even a communist one such as Cuba or Vietnam who you all most adore). These are muslim men many of whom are sympathetic to the destruction of western, christian civilization. Democracy is not a suicide pact to accomodate the needs of disaffected foreigners.
You don't have to be a Christian. What these moronic hippies don't understand is that they'll be even more of a target if it comes here. IslamoFascists don't give a damn about weak spined Appeasing liberals.
Obviously you don't believe in doing your homework. Saying the youth in france are "IslamoFascists" is like saying that the black panthers were "ChristoFascists." But I'm sure you're more than willing to hate on the panthers as well, so whatever. In short: you're pathetic. Next!
This isn't about some values clash, this is about poverty. Get a grip.
This isn't about some values clash, this is about poverty. Get a grip.
What's pathetic is some mental cripple with internet priviliges, mewling the same tired old hippie slogans about "poverty". And stop with the propaganda about "youths".
You don't like poverty? Then do something about it. I suggest you Leftists march by the hundreds of thousands in protesting that the world hasn't made mandatory sterilization for those who don't have a certain income level.
In other words, if you're broke, don't breed!
You don't like poverty? Then do something about it. I suggest you Leftists march by the hundreds of thousands in protesting that the world hasn't made mandatory sterilization for those who don't have a certain income level.
In other words, if you're broke, don't breed!
>What's pathetic is some mental cripple with internet priviliges, mewling the same tired old hippie slogans about "poverty". And stop with the propaganda about "youths".
You don't like poverty? Then do something about it. I suggest you Leftists march by the hundreds of thousands in protesting that the world hasn't made mandatory sterilization for those who don't have a certain income level.
In other words, if you're broke, don't breed!<
Um...thanks for making my point. You're still pathetic.
You don't like poverty? Then do something about it. I suggest you Leftists march by the hundreds of thousands in protesting that the world hasn't made mandatory sterilization for those who don't have a certain income level.
In other words, if you're broke, don't breed!<
Um...thanks for making my point. You're still pathetic.
Why are those children in the street at night? There are rioters as young as 12 years. Shouldn't they be doing their homework and sleeping? Don't those children attend school? Don't they have parents?
Who are you to oppose France's state of emergency?
I think it's up to the French to decide how to handle the problem they are facing.
I think it's up to the French to decide how to handle the problem they are facing.
"You don't like poverty? Then do something about it. I suggest you Leftists march by the hundreds of thousands in protesting that the world hasn't made mandatory sterilization for those who don't have a certain income level. "
And they could also march and protest that irresponsible parents are not sterilized either. Why do they let the children to go out at night?
And they could also march and protest that irresponsible parents are not sterilized either. Why do they let the children to go out at night?
Hey fuck you all!!!!!!!!!
Have you seen the age of the rioters?
read my last message- it's just for you.
Hey fuck the rioters?
"In other words, if you're broke, don't breed!"
Thats sick, I can't believe anyone would ever say that. As long as you're in a comfy middle class home its okay to reproduce, but if you've been oppressed economically, you have to be denied a family too? What the hell is wrong with you?
Thats sick, I can't believe anyone would ever say that. As long as you're in a comfy middle class home its okay to reproduce, but if you've been oppressed economically, you have to be denied a family too? What the hell is wrong with you?
"Shouldn't they be doing their homework and sleeping? Don't those children attend school? Don't they have parents? "
Its more than likely that these people come from neighborhoods with underfunded schools and problematic homes. It must be, beacuse if they had supportive families and a promising future there would be less reason to riot.
Its more than likely that these people come from neighborhoods with underfunded schools and problematic homes. It must be, beacuse if they had supportive families and a promising future there would be less reason to riot.
France's rulers--like rulers everywhere--need the 'impoverished masses.' Their role in society, as far as the ruling class is concerned, is as a super-exploitable workforce and as a reserve army to keep wages down. They're expected to stay in their place--physically in slums and deteriorating housing projects and mentally in a la-la land of false hopes--and keep quiet. Calls for sterilization of the poor are only heard when they act collectively in their own behalf--not when they're washing dishes, picking the fields, and shining shoes.
So what did you expect , what did you ?
WE the poor have nothing and were kept this way , by the people who are in charge ... the rich but not evey body can be rich ... well it's got to end , peacefull protest goes no where I hate to say . What gives you the right to look down at me at us we are just people like you like all of us just because you have Money does not mean you don't bleed - you know what I am saying . WE the poor are tired of being nothing and working for nothing - to get no where with are efforts . So whats next I tell you wahts next I , we , go to the streets and Fight . So fuck your propty and fuck you
I just wnat to live and if I have to fight so be it .
WE the poor have nothing and were kept this way , by the people who are in charge ... the rich but not evey body can be rich ... well it's got to end , peacefull protest goes no where I hate to say . What gives you the right to look down at me at us we are just people like you like all of us just because you have Money does not mean you don't bleed - you know what I am saying . WE the poor are tired of being nothing and working for nothing - to get no where with are efforts . So whats next I tell you wahts next I , we , go to the streets and Fight . So fuck your propty and fuck you
I just wnat to live and if I have to fight so be it .
My parents were poor so they decided not to have more children who they wouldn't be able to feed and educate.
Not having kids when your poor is the right thing to do .
Being poor is being born dead with no way out for the most part .
The rich and very rich need the poor , for poor to be there in the first place .
When your poor you are just a target .
The only way out of being poor is not to be poor ( ie. fighting back ) or to be dead .
Be alive not dead ... it's coming to a boiling point all over the world the rich and the poor .
Being poor is being born dead with no way out for the most part .
The rich and very rich need the poor , for poor to be there in the first place .
When your poor you are just a target .
The only way out of being poor is not to be poor ( ie. fighting back ) or to be dead .
Be alive not dead ... it's coming to a boiling point all over the world the rich and the poor .
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