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Today was to be held in Lyon a demonstration against the far right at the FN congress.
union organizations, political organizations and groups had mobilized anti-fascist
activists and activists from all over France to not let the far right hold the upper hand.
---- But the police and, behind it, the Socialist government, decided otherwise: from the
beginning of the morning, the infamous BAC was conducting arbitrary controls in the
streets of Lyon. Then there are the cars of protesters who were arrested, searched long
and very controlled. The goal? Disrupt the event in advance and intimidate. The tone was
set. ---- Still, there are thousands of people who gathered. Alternative Libertaire had
mobilized its forces to join the ranks of a red and black parade with the CNT and sides of
the NPA in an anti-capitalist pole. But the event did not go very far.
Incidents triggered by a part of the autonomous movement (mainly broken windows) provided
an excuse for the police to suppress the whole event and split in two by the force in a
smoky atmosphere by tear gas. The first part of the event, soon divided into several
groups, was gassed again under the spotlight of a helicopter while very violent arrests
took place. The second part which was a part of the activists of AL, the CNT and
Solidarity and the bulk of the procession of the NPA, was in turn forcibly stopped and
circled on a bridge before being moved under safe custody to the Lyon-Perrache railway
station.
This was done in protest against the extreme right and the police is the entire
responsibility.
The cycle of repression continues. After demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinian
people, after demonstrations against the dam Sivens, after demonstrations against police
violence following the death of R?mi Fraisse, the Socialist government now sends its
police repress those who protest against the extreme right.
The enemies of socialist power, they are neither bosses dismissing or fascists parading or
farmers who defend an ultra-intensive agriculture in defiance of the environment. The
enemies of socialist power, they are those who fight against injustice, austerity, racist
policies.
Alternative Libertaire denounces again the consequences of the repressive policy of the
Socialist Party who despises Artists-workers and seeks to trample the social movement. By
doing so, the government needs to know that the red carpet to the National Front and
authoritarianism.
For this, Libertarian Alternative calls for strengthening all mobilisations against the
capitalist and socialist allies. Our workplaces and in our neighborhoods is reconstructing
class solidarity that we can fight against the employers' offensive and we can stem the
rise of the extreme right, which thrives amid insecurity and social destruction.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-socialistes-et-leur-police
