(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #245 - Farmers extreme
right: "Let us pollute in peace !? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Rural Coordination, organization of farmers close to the National Front, is strongly
opposed to any measure restricting the right to destroy the environment and exploit the
laborers. Example in the Lot-et-Garonne. ---- The Order of the Rural Coordination (CR),
hundreds of farmers conducted Monday, October 6 a blocking action Agen to "protest against
the detention of more than 80% of the land department in" box vulnerable 'under the
Nitrates Directive" ---- All city entrances, and the approaches of the prefecture, the
General Board and the Industrial Court council were under assault in the morning. Arrived
on their tractors, they poured manure, tires and other plastic they burned. A foul odor
invades the streets of Agen. ---- In Lot-et-Garonne CR obtained a relative majority in the
elections to the Chamber of Agriculture. The links of the union with the far right are
regularly denounced... although the RCA says "apolitical". But its members, particularly
Robinson-Cassagne, president of the Chamber of Agriculture, are shock militants against
the rights of agricultural workers[1] and the son of Bousquet-Cassagne, Stephen, was the
last candidate FN legislation in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
CR's claims can be summarized as: "These vulnerable areas under the guise of protecting
nature and the environment, prevent us from working properly and kill more farmers"[2].
The protesters believe that "nitrate pollution has not been proven". This action echoes
the campaign CR that displays along highways department slogan 'Get us peace, let us work
": more control to pollute in peace and exploit farm workers as they wish. Recall the
punitive expedition against an Industrial Advisor besieging his home overnight, or attack,
armed with chainsaws, against a cedar centenarians defense gathering in high school
?tienne-Restat Livrade- in Sainte-sur-Lot Friday October 10.
Consistency with the FN is total, when his candidate ?tienne Bousquet-Cassagne stated
"farmers want to live from their work without being pissed by the administration".
Militias productivists
Peasant Confederation, it reminds us that "the nitrate program launched for the
preservation and restoration of the quality of the 1991 date waters"[3] and that if the
nitrate directive leads "today to an untenable situation for farmers' This is partly the
result of "twenty-three years of immobility and irresponsibility on the part of certain
agricultural representatives". If the "Confederation Paysanne 47 challenging the decision
(...) extension of vulnerable areas because it was taken (...) without accompanying
measures funding program" , it "considers that this technical file is surmountable and is
not commensurate with the priority concern of farmers: fair remuneration for their work ".
It also states that Robinson-Cassagne "abandoned his agricultural mission leader to take
the militia leader role".
The logic of capitalism has produced an intensive agriculture based on massive use of
pesticides and productivist methods that destroyed hundreds of thousands of small farms.
It is this policy that now supports the CR.
CR probably foreshadows what we might see with the strategy of infiltration of FN in the
social movement. This makes it all the more necessary to be alert to this logic, including
against those who favor the links "brown-red" as now the association Viruses Gentiles, and
their guru Stephen Chouard attempting to locate in the anti-Tafta movement.
Jacques Dubart (AL Agen)
[1] See the article by Philippe Baqu? "We want Poles and Moroccans! "In Le Monde
Diplomatique September 2014.
[2] Statement to AFP Robinson-Cassagne, already mentioned.
[3] Press Release Tuesday, October 7, 2014.
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