The next few days promise to be dramatic for the France of finance. Tragic for its financial president. The umpteenth demonstration has further inflamed the Parisian capital. Ignited its opulent bourgeois arteries. Consumed its luxurious shops. Undermined the morale of the Macronian oligarco-police junta, which thought it would impose its villainous pension reform by means of its ordinary despotic 49.3 in all serenity, without arousing the slightest indignation or popular protest. Against all expectations, 49.3 reactivated the means of proletarian retaliation: 68.5 (May 68). Even possibly the weapon of massive destructive response, the 71.3 (the Paris Commune of March 1871).
Faced with the inability of the Macronian oligarco-police junta to bring order, its governmental propensity to systematically cause chaos, concern has taken hold of the powerful of the world. Faced with the impossibility of the oligarch Macron to exercise his elementary presidential functions, to the point of having to cancel two important meetings on the same day (the reception of King Charles III of England and his trip to the Stade de France to attend the football match between France and the Netherlands), doubts about his ability to continue to ensure his mandate arise. Indeed, questions about the reliability and, above all, the viability of the Macronian oligarco-police junta are beginning to arise in the minds of its best and faithful allies. Will this Macronian oligarco-police junta, contested by the street, continue to survive only by means of the Plexiglas ramparts erected by His police militia to defend an economically atrophied and institutionally delegitimized established order, which is moreover catching fire from all sides? ?
The great treasurer of the Rothschild bank, propelled tactically to the head of the State Board of Directors of French Capital, besieged by his furious insurgent people, would he prepare to put away his shoddy political crockery, his largely chipped economic porcelain, the public social jewels intended for his bourgeois class brothers, in his boxes of the Republic in bad progress, with the disastrous step? Will all these affairs soon become the political property of the people, finally awakened from their militant torpor, determined to appropriate their destiny and that of the country, whose economic and governmental direction is concentrated in the mafia hands of the minority parasitic ruling class in popularly contested legitimacy?
From now on, we will have to reckon with this precarious and proletarianized people of France: outraged, broken, martyred, but now determined to free themselves.
Who said that the class struggle is over, the social question resolved?
We remember, the day after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet glacis, following Francis Fukuyama, that all Western leaders, especially French, gargled about the end of History. Of the definitive triumph of capitalism. From the beginning of the unsurpassable era of the horizon of triumphant capitalism. The victorious Western capitalist world would, according to these despisers of liberalism, finally begin a new era of peace and eternal prosperity. Peacefully exporting its democracy. Its still prosperous liberal economic model.
In fact of peace, the world was immediately supplied by prosperous phases of bloody and exterminating wars. First, in Iraq, then in Yugoslavia, then in Rwanda, in Ukraine, then in the whole planet, in particular by the explosion of structural terrorism. As for the promised universal economic prosperity, it resembles the Arlésienne: all the economists and bourgeois politicians talk about it, but the people are still waiting to get to know it.
With the End of History, the class struggle was now considered corny. Obsolete. Endangered species of struggle. Of course, this was only the fleeting and superstitious dream of the ruling classes.
In any case, imbued with their liberal triumph, with their capitalist victory won against the Soviet bloc, the dominant classes of the Western imperialist camp felt sufficiently powerful and hegemonic to confront their paralyzed and weakened proletariats. Confident in their strengths and assured of their invincibility to initiate the process of degradation of professional conditions by unraveling labor legislation, dismantling social rights and public services.
In many countries, notably in France, for several decades, the oppressed working people had resigned themselves to enduring the attacks on their living conditions without complaining, to undergo in silence the redundancy plans, the closings of companies, flexibility and relocation, the decline in purchasing power, the general deterioration of public services
Macron: Yesterday bourgeoisly hailed, today popularly derided, tomorrow revolutionaryly deposed?
Today, the revolt movement in France comes to deny the shameless lies about the death of the class struggle. This movement is akin to a burst of recovery of the dignity of the long trampled working class, to a categorical rejection of the perpetuation of its miserable social condition. As I wrote in my text devoted to the Yellow Vests movement: if, in 2018, the fuel tax will have been “The drop of gasoline that will have restarted the engine of social revolt in France”, in 2023, the pension reform will have been the infamous provocative measure which will have given a new lease of life to the class struggle, which the ruling classes believed to have permanently retired, before burying it with great pomp in the cemetery of the History.
The Macronian oligarco-police junta is at war with its people. Against the now revolted working class. Obviously, to discredit and neutralize the insurrectional struggle of the current revolt movement, initially waged against the pension reform but now against the whole system, the Macronian oligarco-police junta is using all means: media manipulation, preventive arrests, all-out repression, the use of sworn thugs. And essentially, the media spotlight of the violence of the “thugs”. The better to hide the real source of all the violence: the social violence of employers and governments inflicted on millions of workers by the multiple anti-social measures decreed in recent years; State repressive violence inflicted by the forces of order. And the last criminal violence decreed against all workers, which will have set fire to the powder: the extension of the duration of salaried exploitation, increased by two additional years. An iniquitous law rejected by 95% of employees.
Indeed, the media are careful not to dwell on this employer and government violence unleashed by the arsonists of the Élysée and MEDEF. On the violence of the antisocial measures voted by the deputies, these representatives of Capital and not of the people. These multiple anti-social laws are causing havoc: millions of people reduced to poverty due to unemployment, social exclusion, miserable retirement, starving wages, speculative inflation, family isolation, especially for single women with children, etc
Likewise, all of the media and the ruling class are indignant at the few windows broken or materials burned, but never express indignation at the lives of millions of workers shattered by misery, socially burned in the flower of age.
To follow the bourgeois logic of the Macronian oligarco-police junta, led by tied thugs, as in the time of slavery, the people must suffer both the deterioration of their living conditions and police repression without having to react legitimately against these attacks inhuman, against police brutality. Because he would have no legitimacy to defend himself, since the (anti-social) laws were “voted by the representatives of the people within the framework of democracy”. And no legitimacy to defend themselves because only the police have the right to use violence by virtue of the monopoly of legitimate violence held exclusively by the State (of the rich).
The democracy of the truncheon is the weapon of the truncheon of democracy.
Be that as it may, despite the violence of the “thugs” instrumentalized by the Macronian oligarco-police junta to discredit the revolt movement, the popularity of the movement remains intact. According to recent polls, more than two-thirds of the population support the mobilization against pension reform, and now against the entire system. And more than 70% are in favor of the continuation of the movement’s struggle, despite the excesses of the demonstrations, until the dismissal of the oligarch Macron? Until the overthrow of the Macronian oligarco-police junta? Or Until the overthrow of the capitalist system?
Translated from https://algerie54.dz/2023/03/25/repression-en-france/
