Dutch comrades of Doorbraak informed us that some local fascists are inspired by the French fascist Bloc Identitaire and are threatening to attack refugee tent camps, in churches for the time being. Therefore we translated into English two small articles, previously published in French and which include extensive quotations of their xenophobic and fascist rhetoric. These informations may be useful for other comrades in other countries who face the same kind of racist and pseudo anticapitalist demagogy. (Ni patrie ni frontières)
| 20.04.2013 | Pas de commentaires | Texts in English
"If you insult Muhammad, it is as if you insult my own mother." (An auditor, during a debate on Radio Tropic FM, September 20, 2012.) It all began with excerpts from a stupid video posted on the Net. Then a French satirical weekly, “Charlie Hebdo”, intervened in the game. This weekly publication has always been characterized by its bad taste, rude machismo supposed to be funny and popular, and its cheap anti-racism. This typical French form of pseudo anti-racism has a (...)
| 28.09.2012 | Pas de commentaires | Texts in English
« When I cook for the Occupy the City movement in London I contribute to change the world. » A guy interviewed on RFI radio The following is an extended version of my brief intervention at the AWL’s congress. I would like first to thank the AWL for its invitation. As far as I know, the AWL is the only organisation in the European Far Left which is trying to seriously debate with other reformist or revolutionary currents. I don’t share the AWL’s dogmatic reverence (...)
| 4.11.2011 | Pas de commentaires | Texts in English
This report has a very personal tone, but as I don’t belong to any political group, I thought it would be easier to write it this way. 1) Initial motives Professionally I work at home as a translator and proofreader. So my professional milieu is rather restricted and the area I live in is not really politically interesting. As I had only a mainly editorial activity (publishing a magazine and books 3 times a year under the name of Ni patrie ni frontières, see the website and its (...)
| 12.09.2010 | Pas de commentaires | Texts in English
Introduction (This an expanded version of a speech delivered in September, 2009, in Prag. On the same theme in French one can read http://www.mondialisme.org/spip.php...) The theme of our debate today is quite large, so you can understand I won’t be able to touch all the topics concerned by the title of this « speech ». To start with, I’ll give you some basic data which may be useful for our discussion. France is a country of 64 million inhabitants today. Among these 64 (...)
| 12.09.2010 | Pas de commentaires | Texts in English