(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups Lyon - Press
releace the group of Lyon - No to fascism, whether nationalist or
religious (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
We condemn the killings on January 7th in the offices of Charlie Hebdo. There is nothing
to justify this fascist crime. It is the same for the hostage taking and anti-Semitic
murders that take place in a kosher grocery store Friday, January 10th. We also condemn
the fascist attacks targeting Muslim places of worship and individual Muslims or
designated as such. (see link on the website of Paris Struggles Info:
http://paris-luttes.info/deferlante-raciste-et-islamophobe-2397-. These attacks are part
of the climb General of fascism, he advances behind the slogan of "defense of the nation,"
a "civilization" essentialized * or religion whatsoever. Thus, their respective authors
agree ideologically, each trying to mobilize customers for their stock in trade, that of
essentialist myth of the "clash of civilizations" and its bloody consequences for the
working classes.
Attacks in the service of racist system
If, under the guise of humor, Charlie Hebdo reproduced racist stereotypes and participated
in the stigmatization of the Muslim minority, while defending any racist intent, this
finding should not distract us from the essential: to target a newspaper identified /
labeled as "left" is wanting to develop Islamophobia left and destroy the latest
anti-racist solidarity that exist with the Muslim national minority. And thus pave the way
for a new wave racist, whose recent Islamophobic attacks are the first steps.
Internationally, it is also wanting to silence any criticism of religious ideology in the
name of "blasphemy" in a strategy intimidation and murder of journalists by takfiris * as
in Tunisia and Turkey. The anti-Semitic attack, meanwhile, is in a racist worldview
carried by the takfiri ideology, but also in the long history of European anti-Semitism
disseminated by the colonial power in the French colonial area in the logic of "divide and
rule" between Jews and Muslims to preserve his power. (see the federal press the CGA on of
these acts in Europe, it is also, triggering a wave of Islamophobia, pushing the Muslim
minority in the religious fascism arm himself as her protector while he plays on the
contrary its part in strengthening the racist system. In countries with a Muslim majority,
it allows to run as opposed to imperialism, while takfiris were its local proxy in the
repression of the labor movement and the majority of their victims are Muslim.
Convergences fascist currents
The nationalist fascist, meanwhile, are involved in the same dynamic: to present
themselves as protectors of "the nation", the "white Christian West" surfing on the wave
of attacks and multiplying for their part Islamophobic attacks to accentuate the divide
between Muslim and non-Muslim, and thus from the onslaught of power. Seemingly opposite,
it is the same political project that defend these two currents of fascism: racism,
sexism, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, anti-labor repression, war "all against all"
submission to the dominant order. The takfiris religious fascists, like the French or
European nationalists, want and summon each to choose between two competing versions but
converging fascism. This rise of fascism in its various forms is a godsend for the
bourgeoisie, since replacing confrontation class, the questioning of the capitalist
system, imperialist, racist and patriarchal war of "all against all".
The impasse of the sacred union
The state, meanwhile, and as almost all bourgeois political formations, we ordered the
national unity: the "people" is supposed to unite together, as exploited of exploiters,
oppressed as oppressors against the common enemy, the clash of civilizations mode. It is
also likely that new security measures are taken in the name of the fight against
terrorism, taking advantage of the emotional shock to restrict again our freedoms and
increasing repression of popular protest.
For an alternative: Popular Unity!
Faced with all this, refuse to be caught in the crossfire between patriotism on one side
and the fascists on the other, whether nationalist or religious, they are looking to
recruit the national majority and minorities national. Reject the two sides of the same
coin: nationalism and its imperialist and racist project or religious fascism. And develop
popular anti-racist solidarity and the fight against our exploiters, as part of the
international revolutionary workers' movement. Take the example of the Kurdish resistance
Koban? but also revolutionary, Syria or elsewhere that have shown the way to break this
vicious circle, struggling against both imperialism and religious fascists.
* Essentialized: [[Reducing an individual, entity, with one of its dimensions.]]
* Takfiri [[The Takfirism is a violent political-religious movement that advocates a
literal and reactionary interpretation of Islam and believes that all people who oppose
his ideology, including the Muslim people as legitimate targets his attacks. This is a
Muslim religious fascist power.]]
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