THE WORLD PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE MOVEMENT SI E' COSTITUITO A MUMBAI NEL GENNAIO 2004
Young rebels – People around the world are watching you and supporting you!
This is addressed to you, youth of the cities, all of you whom Sarkozy calls racaille, and to others in France" as well, especially those who are listening to you.
Some people say you are going "too far." How far is "too far" in responding to the state's top cop when he announces his intention to "netoyer au Karcher" a whole section of the people?
This is addressed to you the children of immigrant workers and lower section of workers of all nationalities, especially the people of the cites whose fathers carried concrete sacks to built the France we know today and whose mothers tireless mops and brooms kept this country clean. This is addressed to you who are called voyous no matter what you do, whether working or kept out of work, and either way condemned to a life not much better than that of your parents, who endured so much hardship and humiliation in the hope that you would have it better.
We salute you who will never be content with the best the system has to offer you – like de Villepin's plan to allow you to leave school at 14 and work as "apprentices" – almost modern-day slaves – for practically nothing in jobs no one else wants, that would only officialise what exists today, when collège, for most kids, is not a place for advancement but a place of selection where 14-year-olds are told their dreams are over? How far is "too far" in demanding that people be treated like human beings and allowed to develop all that they are capable of, individually and collectively?
The truth is that France has seen far too many years of "calm" in the face of injustice and the kind of "peace" that comes from the oppressed accepting their fate. What's so good about quietly accepting the kind of life imposed on the great majority of people in France? The whole classe politique is relaxed when youth fight one another or take drugs and sink into hopelessness. In this rebellionb the youth have for the most part not deliberately targeted ordinary people in the cites or anywhere else. Right now violence among the people is at a low point and the spirit of the youth is soaring. Youth are in revolt – not mindlessly or aimlessly, as official society charges, but against a very clear target, Sarkozy and the state he represents, the police and anything seen as representative of the prevailing social order. You are punching holes in a prison wall, bringing the whole country fresh air.
You deserve the support of all those who are crushed by the system and its republic, all those who tolerate the life they are given only because they see no alternative, and in fact, people around the world. This government has launched attack after attack on many sections of the people, including immigrants, the unemployed, strikers and many others. There has been some opposition, but not enough and not strong and bold enough. By standing up against the way things are and those who enforce this order, the youth show their potential as a revolutionary force in society, together with all the people who hate that order – all the exploited, all those determined to end the oppression of women, those who truly hate the Iraq war and other imperialist crimes in the world and who really want to save the earth from the profit system. You are creating the conditions for a different kind of thinking, where people don't accept things as they are, in France and the world, and a different kind of social movement than we have seen here in a long time. People all over the world are watching and finding encouragement for their own struggles to liberate themselves.
Not only Sarkozy, and not only the government, but the whole state and political class considers what the youth are doing a "disaster" and an intolerable challenge. They have declared curfews in a few places and imposed undeclared curfews against men young and not so young in whole towns and departments. It is issuing all kinds of threats against the people while hoping that flash balls, CRS clubs and the threat of mass deportations will be enough to make the youth lose heart. At the same time, they are educating the youth and everyone with eyes to see in a basic truth: the French republic is, in the end, a dictatorship that rests on the clubs of the police and ultimately, if necessary, the guns of the army Those who own everything run France, the big capitalist class, have the final say about everything, and in the end none of the people have any rights that can't be taken away.
To all of you others who share so much of what these youth feel, the working people of all nationalities and people of all walks of life, right now is the time to stand up for them and stop the government's attempts to encircle these kids with a reactionary consensus and the murderous actions this consensus speak for the youth and the justice of their cause – stop the government's attempts to crush them. Further, many millions of people in France will not tolerate mass deportations of people to punish them for rebelling. The government must not be allowed to carry through on this threat. Finally, it would good to "nettoyer au Karcher" the people's anger, Sarkozy and all he represents at this time.
World People's Resistance Movement North, South, East, West, unite the people's struggles!
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