Week-end international antifasciste, meeting antifasciste

Samstag, 3 Juni

International anti-fascist weekend, anti-fascist meeting

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On June 5, 2013, Clément Méric, a trade union activist and anti-fascist, was killed by neo-Nazis in the heart of Paris. Every year since, we organize a moment of tribute and struggle. This year, as part of the international antifascist weekend for the 10th anniversary of the murder of Clement, an antifascist demonstration will take place on Sunday, June 4 at 11am, departing from Barbès in Paris.

Clement's murder is not a tragic accident as some continue to claim, but rather the expression of a process of creeping fascisation of French society. His death symbolically opened a historic sequence of political and social clashes of which the increase in violence and far-right murders are only the most tragic face: the racist and political murders in the heart of Paris of rugby player Federico Aramburu in March 2022 or Mir Perwer, Abdurrahman Kizil, Emine Kara near the Kurdish cultural center in December 2022. The multiplication of attacks on mosques, death threats and attacks against left-wing political activists and trade unionists, racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic and homophobic attacks are only the logical consequence of the ideological shift of a large part of French society and elites.

Methodically instrumentalized, the coming to power of the traditional far right is now a likely scenario for the next presidential election. In this context, more and more political, media and economic actors have embraced the choice of fascism rather than struggles for social emancipation. Added to this is the political radicalization and empowerment of the police base, which is illustrated in calls for a civil and racial war in France. The display in the street and on social networks of openly Nazi, fascist and Petainist slogans and imagery illustrate this acceleration. Alongside this far-right violence, state violence is embodied in the increasingly uninhibited repression of the social movement, from the assassination attempts of Serge D. to the deaths of Rémi Fraisse and Zineb Redouane.

Once again, the politico-media system seeks to impose on us a binary choice between two types of neoliberalism: authoritarian, of which Macron is the caricature, or neo-fascist, of which Le Pen is the renovated façade.

But the current sequence shows us that an alternative is on the move. In recent years the social movement has strengthened, intensified and spread on new scales and on several fronts. In its classical forms or with the emergence of new dynamics and tactics. From the defense of the environment to the fight against neoliberalism (labor law, yellow vests, pension reforms...), through the mobilizations against police violence in working-class neighborhoods (families demanding truth and justice for the victims). The social movement and popular self-defense are resistance to the social violence of the capitalist system and its auxiliary, fascism.

The anti-fascism in which Clément Méric was part is not reduced to the sole fight against far-right organizations, it finds its place in the questioning of a system that allows the emergence and development of the new faces of fascism and precludes increasingly important sections of the population. It is therefore no coincidence that from now on the revolutionary anti-fascist movement in France is the target of media, political and judicial criminalization, one of the figures of the new enemy within.

As part of the tribute of the 10th anniversary of Clement's death, we invite you to the international anti-fascist weekend that is part not only of the social movement against the pension reform in France but also of the international resistance against neoliberalism.

Datum & Zeit: 

Samstag, 3 Juni, 2023 - 10:00 bis 17:00

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  • Aktion/Protest/Camp
  • Diskussion/Vortrag
  • Treffen
Bourse du travail
3 rue du Chateau d’eau
75010 Paris
Frankreich

L’Action Antifasciste Paris-Banlieue est une organisation politique autonome fondée en 2008 et luttant contre le capitalisme et le fascisme.

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  • Aktion/Protest/Camp