A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #350 - UCL press release, Block the RN, prepare the counterattack! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

RN access to Matignon would be a disaster. The current bulwark is the 
Popular Front. But fundamentally, it is collective struggles and a 
strong social movement that will constitute an alternative to liberalism 
and fascism. ---- That's it, we are there. The fascist threat that has 
been growing for forty years is at the gates of power. And she didn't 
get there alone. The socialist (PS), Gaullist (UMP, LR) and liberal 
(Macron) governments have made short work of it by trivializing the 
ideas of the extreme right to mask their liberal and anti-social policies.

What the RN will not do, if it wins:
- reduce retirement to 60;
- resurrect public services;
- repopulate medical deserts;
- improve purchasing power. Because any government that manages 
capitalism goes in its direction.

What he will most certainly do:
- to hide that he is doing the same thing as Macron, Hollande-Valls or 
Sarkozy, he will spend his time persecuting the "bad French" (LGBTI, 
strikers, ecologists, etc.), the "false French" (blacks, Arabs, Muslims, 
etc.);
- he will emphasize a policy that benefits the rich, as Macron does and 
as his models Orban, Putin, Erdogan, Netanyahu, Meloni do;
- he will cut public services to reduce taxes on the rich, he proved it 
by applauding the abolition of the ISF;
- it will attack women's rights, particularly access to abortion, and 
will slow down the recognition of sexist and sexual violence;
- it will promote the use of pesticides which poison rural areas, and 
accelerate the climate disaster;
- it will break up public broadcasting which bothers the large 
capitalist groups and in particular that of their friend Bolloré;
- it will encourage police crimes which will multiply, as will attacks 
by small nationalist groups.

What we need to do:
- Defend our rights and freedoms, particularly those of the people the 
RN will hit first (trans minors, LGBTI people, disabled people, 
migrants, Muslims, etc.);
- join all popular initiatives (neighborhood assemblies, demonstrations, 
rallies) to say no to the RN, and support youth in their massive 
mobilization;
- convince that the National Rally is the enemy of our class.

We need to strengthen counter-powers in companies and neighborhoods: 
struggle unions, feminist, anti-racist associations, etc. But also 
revolutionary organizations, including UCL. We must also ask the 
question of unifying combative unions to be stronger. In June 1936, it 
was the general strike that allowed us to win all the social conquests 
(40-hour week, paid leave, etc.). The Popular Front government only 
chased after the events. It is only a strong social movement that will 
make it possible to build an alternative to liberalism and fascism.

VOTE WITHOUT ILLUSIONS OR SCRUPULES
Rather than a far-right government, we prefer to face a left-wing 
government. We do not expect social change from this. Voting Popular 
Front is a tactical choice, it is about obtaining a respite. Whichever 
government emerges from the polls, the social movement will have to 
fight to advance its own demands. Popular front against the 
reactionaries, social revolution against capital!

Federal coordination of UCL, June 16, 2024

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Bloquer-le-RN-preparer-la-contre-attaque
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