One way in which the authorities (ineffectively, like in Iraq) try to crush uprisings like this is by legal repression: when your brother or your best friend or your friend's friend is put into prison for 10 years just because he carried burnt a car and used violence against state terrorists (aka "policemen"), you and the whole movement risks losing its steam.

Tomorrow morning, Monday 7 November 2005, at 2pm (14:00) Paris time (1pm UK time), a meeting at the Courtroom (TGI = Tribunal de Grande Instance) is planned to support people accused of illegal methods of fighting against capitalism.

Hundreds of people have been detained and their chances of getting fair trials and having the right to a political defence will not happen without support. Cross the channel early Monday morning and catch the metro on Ligne 5. to M° Bobigny - Pablo Picasso and you should be able to be there in person.

Or use your creativity and think of other solidarity actions and concrete human rights demands you can make from the French government. People-to-people contact is absolutely necessary - probably people from the UK who look like they are from ethnic minorities might be able to make better contact than bourgeois French "whites"...

 http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=45642#commentaires

right.

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1861093,00.html

> “The last word must be with the law,” M Chirac said after the meeting.
> Those sowing “violence or fear” would be “arrested, judged and punished”.

Trials of uprising participants is clearly a key part of authorities' attempts to distract attention from the real issues.

Concrete solidarity actions (an appeal fund for paying lawyers? demos in front of French embassies? mass presence at Bobigny courthouse (TGI) itself?) could make a big difference...

solidarity with thugs...I hope they burn your car (for no reason other than to watch it burn)

I'm going to prove how much I support these heroic revolutionaries by burning down my local primary school, too! That'll teach THE MAN about how evil CAPITALISM is!

France is a neo-Nazi ridden state, with far right policies in its government.

LePen's stinking living corpse lingers on, and many of his divisive ideas are echoed by supposed mainstream French politician types.

All the more reason to make sure here in the UK the neo-Nazi BNP end up in jail, to oppose racial discrimination.

Just remember, the BNP's friends include Ku Klox Klan's David Duke.

The BNP's proven aims are discrimination, racial tension, and white supremacy.

Le~Pen is a war criminal, as well as being a sad bastard, Hell-bound loser......

Peace And Justice.

Oppose capitalism, racism, and Bush and Blair.

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Quote : " France is a neo-Nazi ridden state, with far right policies in its government."

Yeah thats why it has got five million muslims!!!!!!!! Plus millions of other foreigners! The only thing wrong with France is they are too soft on these rioters who are causing havoc, chaos and destruction which will run into billions! They should send the army in to restore order!

Hey, what happened in france could happen here. There are similar problems. However, leftists,(anarchists and socialists) do not overestimate yourselves and believe that you have any influence on people in estates or so called immigrant communities, or even poor white working class communities. You dont, and there is a difference between say, the May day 'riots', and those now in france or similar ones that have taken place in the past in Brixton in the 80s etc.

FTB obviously doesn't understand about the Orwellian National Curriculum, the school police, education as social control/ market-based pedagogy.

Glad to see you are taking the mainstream media reactionary approach to this. You arer obviously very arrogant/thick/cowardly/deluded. Multiple choice for you there...

...Is already happening on these shores, right under our noses.

See Birmingham for details, to cite just one recent example.

As long as we insist on viewing those who look and live differently as 'The Other', instead of seeing what we all have in common, these scenarios will keep on happening.

As long as we keep on voting in reactionary, racist politicians who prefer to focus attention on the contrived threats being the 'Tides of' (delete as applicable): Travellers, Immigrants, Terrorists, Paedolphiles, Dole Fraudsters, Identity Thieves and so on, instead of focussing on genuine social problems, we will continue to be a divided society.

Meanwhile, we are told we 'need' CCTV, rape alarms and big gas guzzling cars to ferry our children 'safely' to their schools; we 'need' to be detained for up to 90 days without trial 'for our own safety'; we 'need' to also lock up people from other lands for indefinite periods of time while they wait to find out if they can live here.

As long as we allow ourselves to be divided by these wrongheaded fools with their own short-sighted and selfish agendas, instead of working together in our own communities there will be a problem.

So, yes, it is already happening here, because we believe the lies we are being told by those that prefer to keep us ignorant, divided and paranoid so they can control us.

Just because you don't see burning cars on your streets, it doesn't mean to say there isn't a problem.

Free your mind and see things as they REALLY are.

Well it certainly helps to cut down on the traffic which is terrible these days it takes me at least half an hour to drive down to the gate to collect the milk and newspapers .....

France is for the most part a welfare state. They have provided people with housing, money, food, etc. They didn't even have the guts to tell immigrants whose values completely contradict with their that they should assimilate.

I can't remember who called it a far-right country, but that is absolutely ridiculous. I have spent much time there. Their social model is very left of center.

and it just bit them in the ass.