A World Infernoa From paris to Baghdad to Shanghai to Rio...
Marcel 13 Nov 2005 21:43 GMTA suffocating myopia has descended on the West, one that ignores the reality of a world that outside the metropolitan centres is based on sheer brute force of arms and repression whether in Colombia, Iraq, or Palestine, where the uniting factor is an imperialism increasingly desperate in its attempts not only to hold onto what it has stolen but to absorb the fact that the policies of centuries has finally come to a head.
Children Die everywhere everyday from the poverty created to feesd obese Classes
A World Infernoa From paris to Baghdad to Shanghai to Rio...
With the curfew, the government responds by collective punishment and a law of exception that gives full powers to the police. Just sealing the lid on the cooking-pot will mark the memories of our neighbourhoods for a long time.
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A World Infernoa From paris to Baghdad to Shanghai to Rio... Capital is Burning !
The attitude of the World and the Left of France to the millions of poor people and excluded immigrants is just like the world and the left's attitude to global warming : Lies and denial... Neither issues is going away and the longer they are ignored or misrepresented the worse it will be for everyone and everything...
If only it were summer or even september there woild be plenty of time to burn every car in Europe until people got the message... But with Winter coming the more radical elements in the 2005 French Uprising will probably seek to escalate the struggle now - unless the broad left-greens mount a general strike and bring dopwn the government more gently.
The choice waits. But not for long one imagines. It only takes a few handfuls of committed youth to escalate the violence (self defense of the poor) with bus, train and shopping bombs. France will be paralyzed and the EURO will crash. The holiday shopping season will be disrupted and recession will et in as global trade shrinks and businesses go bankrupt.
On Saturday, the heaviest concentration of police was around the Elysee Palace, the official residence of President Jacques Chirac. Dozens of police manned barricades around the ornate building and its grounds along the Champs-Elysees, Paris's most famous boulevard. In other areas, however, police remained discreetly inside their buses, cars and vans, mostly just out of sight of tourists lined up outside museums, galleries and other sites.
Arjang Ahmadpour, 20, a student from Los Angeles waiting in line in a cold drizzle to take the elevator up the Eiffel Tower, shrugged off concerns about the unrest. "People asked me, 'Oh, you're going to Paris ? Aren't you scared ?' " he said. His response, "They're not going after tourists." Are they ?
Youths set fire to 400 vehicles before dawn Sunday, compared to 600 the previous night, police said. A week ago, 1,400 cars were incinerated in a single night. Fewer cars are nurned but they are more valuable ones and owned by richer people - "We are trying to get to the most fascist members of society - the rich," said a youth in Toulouse on Saturday night. Belgium had its worst night in a week of attacks, with 29 cars, trucks and buses torched, the government said. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, youths burned four cars, police said. Two cars were set afire in the Swiss town of Martigny.
PARIS, Nov. 12 -- Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night in the first clash between rioters and police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports.
Youths stormed through the historic Place Bellecour in Lyon, France's third-largest city, located in the southeastern Rhone Valley region, even though the city had imposed a nighttime curfew on minors not accompanied by parents. Police fired tear gas to disperse the youths, and 10 people were arrested, officials said.
French radicals Assist Unabated Rioting
Riots in France force curfews as civil unrest enters its 14th day. The violence spread to Brussels and Berlin, raising concern in other European capitals.
Communique on the French riots from MIB, a group active in the banlieues around France and part of the No Border network.
From Minguettes (1981) to Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), from Mantes-la-Jolie (1991) to Sartrouville (1991), from Dammarie-les-Lys (1997) to Toulouse (1998), from Lille (2000) to Clichy, the message is clear :
Enough of these unpunished crimes of the police, enough of the suffering silence of millions of families, of men and women, who suffer daily from the social violence, so much more devastating than a burning car.
With the curfew, the government responds by collective punishment and a law of exception that gives full powers to the police. Just sealing the lid on the cooking-pot will mark the memories of our neighbourhoods for a long time.
There will never be peace in our neighbourhoods as long as there is not justice and real equality.
No pacification nor any curfew will keep us from continuing our fight for this, even when the cameras will have ceased rolling.
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE !
MIB, 11/09/2005
MIB - 45 Rue d'Aubervilliers 7518 Paris - 
http://mib.ouvaton.org
Dditional Thoughts :
What distinguishes the revolt currently taking place in France is not only the scale of it, sweeping across France from one ghetto to the next but that it reflects the fact that the legacy of colonialism and its benighted descendent, the 'neo-liberal' agenda of the IMF and the World Bank has finally come back to haunt the Western world.
Ultimately, it is the failure to recognise that the fundamental contradictions of capitalism that has seen firstly, the importation of cheap labour to do the jobs considered too demeaning by the white working classes of the capitalist world to perform and secondly, the export of industrial capitalism to the un-unionised working people of our former colonies. Add to this the assault by the IMF and the World Bank on the poor of the planet which has displaced millions who have in turn 'invaded' the metropolitan centres of capital in search of a living.
Failure of the imagination ? "Political exhaustion" on the part of the ruling elites ? I despair if this is what passes for a 'left' analysis when we have for decades experienced the results of the imperial mindset that affects all sections of capitalist society. Until we face the reality that we are the privileged of the world, living on borrowed time and on stolen labour, there can be no solution.
A suffocating myopia has descended on the West, one that ignores the reality of a world that outside the metropolitan centres is based on sheer brute force of arms and repression whether in Colombia, Iraq, or Palestine, where the uniting factor is an imperialism increasingly desperate in its attempts not only to hold onto what it has stolen but to absorb the fact that the policies of centuries has finally come to a head.
That it explodes in the face of a smug and comfortable intelligentsia, whether of the 'left' or the right should come as no surprise to us, it is but our just desserts for the centuries of oppression we have inflicted on Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and for ignoring the reality of life in our own 'backyard', even as we speed off up the M-25 to some cathedral of consumption to get our fix of fixtures.
Auteur: anonymous ( Marcel )