Letter to Socialist Worker about the Paris rallies
Dear SW
I was at the Sunday rally in Paris after the terrorist attacks. All the main trade unions and the big left parties called. The demo was absolutely not led by Hollande and his war criminal friends. Also the tone of the demo was about living together without hatred and racism. There were no racist placards or badges, and thousands of "I am Jewish, I am muslim, I am Christian" slogans, along with even more "I am Charlie" slogans, which was not my slogan, but didn't mostly mean that people identified with the reactionary side of Charlie Hebdo, a contradictory magazine, as Socialist Worker pointed out. The Front national was completely marginalized and Marine Le Pen went off to demonstrate in a small town in the South: this was possible because the Left was massively present on the Paris rally. Boycotting the demo because the war criminals came for twenty minutes for a photo opportunity in a side street was a mistake. It was right to be there to talk to the wide periphery of left thinking people and union members. Three or four million on the streets for a homage to the multiethnic victims is not a moment to stay at home.
I was at the Sunday rally in Paris after the terrorist attacks. All the main trade unions and the big left parties called. The demo was absolutely not led by Hollande and his war criminal friends. Also the tone of the demo was about living together without hatred and racism. There were no racist placards or badges, and thousands of "I am Jewish, I am muslim, I am Christian" slogans, along with even more "I am Charlie" slogans, which was not my slogan, but didn't mostly mean that people identified with the reactionary side of Charlie Hebdo, a contradictory magazine, as Socialist Worker pointed out. The Front national was completely marginalized and Marine Le Pen went off to demonstrate in a small town in the South: this was possible because the Left was massively present on the Paris rally. Boycotting the demo because the war criminals came for twenty minutes for a photo opportunity in a side street was a mistake. It was right to be there to talk to the wide periphery of left thinking people and union members. Three or four million on the streets for a homage to the multiethnic victims is not a moment to stay at home.
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