Re: [Marxism] French elections: position of the left on racism and national oppression

[Greg Dunkel <gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was talking about the whole protest, which lasted for 7 to 8 hours 
according to press reports.

Not just the immediate protest of the arrest.

I don't think Helary's comment contradicts mine.

70 to 80% of employees in France have a legally enforceable right to 
their job.  Almost nobody in the banlieues -- certainly very few of the 
youth there -- have this kind of job and they do not feel that the left 
-- whether united or split -- is trying to give them access to that kind 
of steady employment.

Whether one calls how the North Africans (Beurs) and West Africans of 
the banlieues racist discrimination or national oppression, in order to 
win their political support, political parties of the left have to 
address their problems of employment, housing, etcetera -- often put 
under the general term of "exclusion from French society."

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> On 20 avr. 07, at 22:52, Greg Dunkel wrote:
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> > Most of the protesters at the Gare du Nord were Black and North 
> > Africans going home to the northern suburbs of  Paris, where the 2005 
> > rebellion of the oppressed communities started.  While every French 
> > person who saw the TV coverage would have been aware of this fact, the 
> > LCR didn't see fit to mention it.
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> I don't know which TV channel you were watching. But this is plainly 
> false. All the videos shown on TV or on the web showed what was more 
> realistically a patchwork of people commuting back from work and 
> specifically _not_ mostly "oppressed communities". What happened later 
> in the night is a different story.
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
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