(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Bombings in
Paris: Against their wars, our solidarities (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
A wave of deadly attacks took place last night in Paris and Saint-Denis. The French
government has been conducting wars in several countries (Libya, Mali, Syria ...) for
years. These wars today have an impact on the French territory.
We are confronted to attacks aiming to spread terror and to stir up divisions within the
population. Alternative Libertaire condemns these attacks: killing people at random in the
street in the sole purpose of frightening is abject. These attacks are the work of a
political movement - the Salafist jihadism - whose first victims are the civilian
populations of the Middle East and which has already hit Beirut in recent days. This same
political movement that continues to wage war against Kurdish progressive forces in Syria.
Following these attacks, we will witness a securitarian frenzy maintained by political
forces who use fear to draw us against each other Already, immigrants and the Muslim
minority in this country are beginning to be affected by political statements and are
subject to indiscriminate reprisals.
Strenghtening freedom-restricting devices will not prevent new attacks. The state of
emergency is the suspension of many democratic rights, the legalization of large-scale
repressive measures with regard to various layers of the population that have nothing to
do with the attacks.
We stand against government taking this opportunity to ban unionist and ecologist
mobilizations to come. All this will lead to divide and strengthen fears and hatreds. All
this will only lead to an escalation between terrorist attacks increasingly bloody and
security responses increasingly repressive. The answer is neither the withdrawal nor the
militarization of society.
The solution will not come from those who have contributed to this situation by their
militarist policies, imperialist, discriminatory, hateful. They use this to impose an
increasingly police state and a national unity between exploiters and exploited, which we
reject and denounce.
The solution requires the strengthening of solidarity, in the neighborhoods and at our
workplaces, and through the consolidation of all those and all those who refuse all
regimes of terror. Do not remain isolated! Let's get together to discuss our
responsibilities to the situation, particularly in terms of joint actions of all social
transformation forces.
Alternative Libertaire, November 14, 2015
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Attentats-de-Paris-Contre-leurs
