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For about two weeks, unrest and violent
clashes have gripped many cities across
France. These events have been described by
World press as "uprising of the deprived
people", "Rebellion of discontented people"
and so on. During this period suburbs are
turn into night-time battlefield and ground
for armed clashes between police forces and
hundreds of youth dissatisfied with their
living conditions. Hundreds of cars, buses
and shops have been set in ablaze during
these protests.
The extremely deprived and impoverished
suburbs of the majority African and Arab
migrants in Paris and many other major
French cities have become battlefield for
the disobedience of youths who feel
isolated, segregated, impoverished and left
without jobs. The unrest is the result of
discontent toward the policy of
marginalization, and toward deprivation,
lack of social services and uncertainty of
future. It is the result of fury generated
by the feeling that the society has become
two completely different and contrasting
worlds. Few minutes a way from luxurious
suburb, excessive richness and lavish
lifestyle are suburbs of deprivation,
hunger, unemployment, lack of economic
security and humiliating racism. This anger
has built up over decades and now has
suddenly burst. The rage is so deep that
even schools, kindergartens were not spared
from destruction.
What happened in France is the reaction of
people who have lost any hope in securing a
dignified and prosperous life in this
prosperous world. It is a response to the
policies and attacks of successive
governments on these people's living
conditions. It is a response to the policy
of ghetto-isation, segregation and the
so-called assimilation! It is the rage of
despair people who lost patient. The French
government is responsible for these events.
The real causes behind the current uprising
are the brutal conditions imposed on people
by capitalism and its governments. This
uprising is the result of the system and
lifestyle imposed on people by capitalism.
All these
Hardships are the outcomes of the current
society dominated by oppression, inequality
and injustice produced by this inverted
system. The poor has no option but to
protest against this extremely unjust world
However with the absence of a radical,
humanist and egalitarian movement, a
socialist movement and awareness a distorted
awareness will prevail. There will be ground
for ethnic, nationalist and Islamic
sentiments to grow. We see how the Islamic
movements try to capitalize on these
protests by portraying the situation as been
an attack on "Muslims", "Arabs" and
"Africans". Thus they give this oppression
and the protest against it an
Islamic,-nationalist and ethic character.
These events are the protest of discontent
masses of people in various French cities
against lack of rights, social services and
other hardships which burden their shoulder
and have nothing to do with the reactionary
and false Islamic, nationalist and ethnic
identities. The fact is with absence of a
capable communist movement any reactionary
and fascist movement can use the protest of
deprived people to strengthen its front
which is totally against these deprived
people.
The deprived people in society has one
option to improve their lives and that is to
rally around a humanist front which is the
front of the masses of people seeking
prosperity, freedom and their forces and
organizations. The front of deprived people
in France consists of the labour,
progressive, humanist, egalitarian and
freedom loving French organizations. The
front of the deprived people is not
represented by sheikhs
and nationalists who capitalize on these
conditions to serve interests in sharp
contrast to the interests of the deprived
people in France. In struggle to achieve
the just demands of deprived people of
France the humanist identity must be made
prominent against these deceitful and
reactionary identities. The protest of
deprived people in France indicates once
more that the humanity today is in urgent
need to the communist alternative.
November 9, 2005 |