(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #242 - Union fascism: The FN is trying to train on a railway siding (fr, pt)

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The recent renewable strike at the SNCF, denounced by both the PS government by the UMP, 
has led to attempts of interference by the extreme right. Railway unions fight - CGT and 
SUD-Rail - denounced the maneuver in a press release. ---- Twice already, in the wake of 
the social movements of magnitude, FN adopted a pseudo-social posture to broaden its 
audience and its electorate with employee-es and popular classes. In 1996, Bruno Megret 
encouraged the creation of labeled FN immediately opposed by unions unions; in 2011, 
having succeeded his father, Marine Le Pen sprinkles the new social program of the 
National Front and a handful of trade unionists - including Fabien Engelmann has since 
become mayor of Hayange in Moselle - are on Frontists cantonal lists, which causes a first 
response unit (CGT-CFDT, FSU-Solidarity-UNSA) stating that "national preference is 
inconsistent with the values of trade unionism".

Double demagogic speech

Just before the strike at the SNCF June - is the first strike renewable immensely since 
the arrival in power of Holland - the FN claims to defend "French public service rail 
endangered by Brussels" while denouncing "the responsibility of trade unions in peril" 
from the train and "complicity against successive governments". It allows him to denounce 
both Europe, Valls government and unions, no matter indeed if all unions are put in the 
same bag. Florian Philippot, past the National Republican chev?nementisme FN he quickly 
became Vice President, pretends to "understand" the railroad and said he would not 
"criminalize advance a social movement" , while stating that "the solution does is not 
this strike, " calling for the creation of "collective defense of public service" unions 
supposed to supplant.

If the FN and tries a double demagoguery to spare both strikers and users, the present 
paper denounced the strike as a "hostage".

Interference by the extreme right

As a logical extension of the united campaign CGT, FSU, Partners initiated on January 29 
to combat right-wing extremism, SUD-Rail and CGT-Railroaders responded with a joint press 
release stating that "our struggle is not recoverable! ". Indeed, either the FN or the 
site Equality & Reconciliation - which resumed interviews and images of employee-'re 
fighting for confusion - the various attempts at interference by the extreme right are 
clearly denounced and by unions that directly initiated the ongoing strike. Already in 
2010, United and Continental-CGT denounced an attempt to image retrieval by fascist 
struggles of Third Way, Serge Ayoub movement dissolved after the murder of Clement Meric. 
The union statement concludes with a speech combining class struggle and anti-fascism: 
"Fighting against employer offensives against the dismantling social rights and for 
quality public services, is also fighting against the extreme right".

Gabriel L. (CAL SOP)