Resist the curfew
The decisions announced by Mr de Villepin [Prime Minister], yesterday evening on TF1 [TV channel], are unacceptable. Instead of responding to the social crisis, he is reviving a law dating from the colonial era, the Algerian war, giving to local authorities the power to decree a curfew in all or part of a local area and to suspend a number of freedoms. Already, E Raoult, mayor of Raincy —a town with 2.6% social housing—acting as the pilot fish of repression, has taken the initiative and instituted such a measure in his town. Moreover, the LCR calls for resistance to the curfew, by demonstrating in boroughs and local areas, at night if necessary, wherever it is instituted by the local authority. The LCR calls on all left-wing and democratic organisations to come together and organise such demonstrations.
Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR)
Nov. 8
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