A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #345 - Politics, State Racism: Let's remain mobilized against the Darmanin-Le Pen law (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

After months of an endless disgusting soap opera in which the right and 
the far right played out racist and security escalations, the vote has 
finally come. The Darmanin-Le Pen law has been passed. The minority 
Macronists have given in on all points: "soil rights", "national 
preference", links between delinquency and immigration..., all the 
xenophobic markers of the extreme right are there, enshrined in the law. 
Without waiting for hypothetical adjustments from the Constitutional 
Council, it is urgent to mobilize our social camp against this racist law.
Announced by Gérald Darmanin upon the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in 
June 2022, the law "To control immigration, improve integration" passed 
last Tuesday, December 19, is a summary of the measures of the 
presidential program of the National Rally: criminalization and 
registration of undocumented immigrants, systematization of IRTF (ban on 
residing on French territory) for victims of OQTF (obligation to leave 
French territory), expulsion of asylum seekers rejected at first 
instance, restriction of family reunification and access to asylum...

With the added bonus of the introduction of "national preference", a 
xenophobic measure which refers to the title of a work published in 1985 
by Jean-Yves Le Gallou, one of the thinkers of the contemporary extreme 
right: La Préférence nationale. Response to immigration. An entire 
program! This slogan has since been taken up by the FN/RN, declined into 
"The French first" in the FN of Jean-Marie Le Pen and in "National 
Priority" among the 22 flagship measures of Marine Le Pen's program for 
2022 presidential election.

In 1998, Catherine Megret, then mayor of Vitrolles, established a birth 
allowance allocated to children "of French parents or European Union 
nationals". Measure for which she was then convicted in court... but 
1998 is a long time ago!

Re-elected to block the National Rally, Emmanuel Macron has since 
strived to put a stop to the right as well in domestic politics: pension 
reform, reform of the RSA and, today, law on immigration which the joy 
of a right and an extreme right who could sue him for plagiarism; than 
in foreign policy; by allying with the reactionary Victor Orban to 
impose nuclear power in Europe's green energy mix or even by becoming 
the uncritical ally of Benjamin Netanyahu in his war against the 
Palestinian people.

From the barrier vote to full membership
If we had no illusions about the antisocial political positioning of 
Emmanuel Macron, it is clear that the penalization of minds is today 
very widespread at all political and media levels, the dikes have been 
broken. What the RN elected officials can no longer even hide.

Tuesday, December 19 after the vote on the law by the Senate, Marine Le 
Pen welcomed an "ideological victory" for the RN, while the next day, in 
the columns of Le Figaro, an RN deputy ironically said: "How are they 
going to demonize us in 2027 between the two rounds, if they resume 
national priority? The Republican barrier was blown twice: when LR took 
over the national priority, and when the macronie did so too.»

To the extreme right
Although Zemmour believes he is obliged to go one step further by 
declaring on Wednesday December 20 in Le Figaro: "The immigration law, 
worse than nothing! ", some are not mistaken, like Santiago Abascal, 
leader of the far-right Vox party, who the same day declared to the 
Spanish Parliament: "Yesterday France approved a truly restrictive 
migration law[...]]you might learn from some of those who claim to be 
your friends."

The dikes, if ever they were truly solid, are now broken. The macronie 
has revealed itself as it is, an authoritarian liberalism, ready to 
compromise with the far right to remain in charge and impose its 
anti-social program.

Faced with this, a start seems to be beginning. Thursday, December 21, 
an inter-union declaration CFDT, CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires and UNSA 
condemned the law. Spontaneous strikes in high schools and universities 
were organized. In this context it is more than imperative that the 
social movement regroups and organizes itself to lead the fight on our 
terrain, the social terrain. This law, created to any extent to serve 
the interests of the capitalists, must be fought with every weapon at 
our disposal. Only unity and radical means of action will allow us to be 
heard. Faced with the brutality of attacks from employers and the far 
right, we must oppose a united front of the social movement.

David (UCL Savoies)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Racisme-d-Etat-Restons-mobilise-es-contre-la-loi-Darmanin-Le-Pen
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