(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° spécial -
Refugee-es: Combat myth of invasion (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Attempts to dismantle the refugee camps in La Chapelle and Paris Austerlitz to put the
situation of migrants in light, but above all emphasize the responsibilities of the State
and the European Union and organize solidarity. ---- The images of shipwrecked migrants in
the Mediterranean-es are indicative of both the capitalist nature and the European Union
crisis (EU) as a political construction. Pushing ever further trade liberalization and a
power policy to defend an increasingly unequal economic system, the EU is a major player
of a capitalist system destabilizing factor territories and conflicts vector. It also has
a field day denouncing dictatorial regimes responsible for wars and massive population
displacement (Syria, Sudan, Eritrea) after many years closed their eyes to their criminal
acts when she does not simply maintained at name of Realpolitik.
The migrants, most of whom are fleeing the dictatorships and wars, are not invaders, but
working people who seek to escape death, imprisonment and torture. They and they seek that
any EU citizen would seek in such cases: asylum, that is to say a home requiring
protection, housing, food, care and opportunity to work. Faced with this emergency, the
EU's response oscillates between indifference and repression and improvisation. In France,
Holland Valls policy is nothing other than fuel for the FN. It is primarily based on the
lie that is to believe that France is far too generous country, even though it is a more
restrictive asylum.
The state, racism lever
The lack of reception policy worthy of the name and the repression against the 400
migrants La Chapelle (Paris XVIII) is to prevent them from organizing and asserting their
rights, no matter how limited. For Eritreans and Sudanese situation is all the harder it
is no diaspora and on which they may rely.
If racist remarks can be heard since arriving in the districts of La Chapelle and
Austerlitz (Paris XIII), the solidarity of many people and activists of these
neighborhoods is real and this in all areas (accommodation, food, clothing, care, support
for the steps, interposition during police loads, participation in actions, events). It
helps to show that the state policy is a key lever of racism that benefits the reaction
and the extreme right. Similarly, the self-organization of migrants is a great blow to
those (the PS, among Republicans as to FN) that stigmatize them as representing assisted
and parasites. It also upsets the paternalism of the institutional left (EELV and Left
Front) for more to stage its elected representatives, and to substitute for migrants to
support a struggle that must remain theirs.
In this field of self-empowerment and can they from the beginning to rely more on self
militants, FA, CGA, Alternative Libertaire, Solidaires or the NPA. Class solidarity,
self-organization and ideological battle are the three essential axes of this ongoing
struggle. Their development depends on its victorious outcome.
Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris-Northeast)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Refugie-e-s-Combattre-le-mythe-de
