(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #255 (Nov) - the
police assassinated, Popular areas: Ten years of struggles for dignity
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The March of Dignity will be held Oct. 31, 2015 in Paris. Starting at 14h Barbès onto
Place de la Bastille. It was ten years ago, October 27, 2005, died Zyed and Bouna,
electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis. Following
this, four hundred neighborhoods throughout France caught fire three weeks. Ten years
after these revolts, a "march for dignity and against racism" will be held October 31.
---- In 2005, at the death of Bouna and Zyed, Sarkozy was Interior and its police practice
was part of the continuity of that of his predecessors in the popular neighborhoods, which
has not stopped since: discriminatory control of neighborhoods Popular, producer
domination policy of violence, racial profiling, police custody and arbitrary sentences
with the complicity of the judiciary.
The climax of the police handling of exception, it is the police crimes, which remain
overwhelmingly unpunished. Thus, example among others, the police officers responsible for
the deaths of Bouna and Zyed accused of failing to assist people in danger, were finally
acquitted on May 18 ...
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But the situation of neighborhoods is not just the issue of police violence. The events in
Clichy-sous-Bois occurred in a social climate of impoverishment, casualization, breakage
of public service, discrimination and racist contempt. Moreover, 2004-2005 was the
ideological shift of the ethnicisation of social issue and its racist contempt revolts
explode one year after the debate and racist law on the veil, ideological shift that ten
years later we see the promising future. The cocktail that blew the cities at the time is
still there!
Missed opportunities for convergence
Let's face it: when revolts, the reactions of the social movement of the left and the
extreme left, remained silent until the announcement of the curfew, were insufficient.
Since, opportunities have been missed to bring together the struggles of working class
neighborhoods with the rest of the social movement.
Banner Zyed and Bouna
Paris, March 21, 2015. Protest against all forms of racism and fascism Copyright: Red
Photo / JMB
However, the side of the populations of neighborhoods, the will to act has led to multiple
attempts to develop various campaigns, including political speech of people in poor
neighborhoods, often contradictory strategies (Moms all equal, Brigade antinégrophobie,
indigenous Party of the Republic, the Social Forum of popular neighborhoods, United Front
immigrations and neighborhoods ...).
Women in struggle
In terms of struggle, mobilizations against Islamophobia, for Palestine and others gave
rise to multiple claims and political resistance. As for the movement against police
crimes, new organizations (Stolen Lives, Blindside, Urgency our Police murders) have
emerged over the sad struggle for truth and justice in recent years (Lamine Dieng, Ali
Ziri, Akim Ajimi, Wissam el Yamni Amine Bentounsi ...).
In all these struggles, the female figures were numerous and women from poor neighborhoods
were particularly invested in it. For these reasons, it is women who are at the initiative
of the recently MAFED (Collective of Women's March for Dignity), held October 30, ten
years after the revolts in the wake of the struggles of recent years and a little more
than thirty years after the marches for equality.
If it is regrettable that the call for this march will be focused mainly on a demand for
respect and dignity and not on a class struggle dimension, this is largely due to the
absence of rapprochement with the extreme left . We are still waiting a shock on this side
and the unions about the problems of neighborhoods.
Nicolas Pasadena (Val-de-Marne)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Quartiers-populaires-Dix-ans-de
