ANTARSYA announcement on the developments in France
▸The ongoing social explosion in France once morest Macron’s pension “reform”, which increases the retirement age from 62 to 64 years, is the picture of the future that the ruling classes and governments are preparing for us.
Under the pressure of the new round of economic crisis and in the name of “competitiveness of the economy”, Macron increases the limits for the retirement of male and female workers, continuing the attack on the working class. Everywhere, the message of the crisis for those at the top is common: “the burdens of the crisis on the backs of the workers”.
What Macron did not count on, however, is the anger and power of the working class and youth in his country. For two months now, culminating in recent weeks, millions of French workers have been striking and demonstrating across France despite bans and brutal repression.
It is this power of the working class that stripped away the “democratic facade” of Macron and the entire bourgeois democracy. When they cannot pass the bills through the Parliament then they rule by decrees.
The old slogan of old Karamanlis: “Greece – France alliance” we are putting into practice “from below”. Our own rage, our own general strikes once morest the murderous ND and Mitsotakis government inspire and are inspired by our brothers in France.
All over Europe, their economic crisis (which is already experiencing new convulsions) and their war, mean new attacks on the working class but also ignite new labor struggles and new uprisings. The message from France is that we can make them tremble for a new May of 68 and as then so also now mass the subversive forces of the left that can take this rebellion to the end. Let’s continue here and in France and everywhere to overthrow the anti-popular governments and the entire bourgeois political system with the power of the struggles, to open the way for the revolutionary change of society, for a society that we deserve.
