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"Fuck tha police" and mineral water

anon@indymedia.org (Réseau Résistons ensemble) | 13.09.2011 12:17 | London

article on the "riots" in the bulletin "Résistons ensemble"

original end English translation

hi,

You will find the English translation of the last editoral of the 100th issue of "Résistons ensemble contre les violences policières et sécuritaires". It is about the last revolt in GB. Resistons is an independent network based in France trying to help the defense and self organsation against the police's and justice's violence.

http://resistons.lautre.net/


12 September 2011
English translation by VM of

 

'Fuck tha police and mineral water'

editorial.
Original French see below.
From 100th issue of "Résistons ensemble contre les
violences policières et sécuritaires"
site : http://resistons.lautre.net/

Someone took a bottle of mineral water,
another took a packet of crisps and a smartphone,
yet another tagged 'fuck tha police',
others protested against the drug-dealers who had
benefited from their revolt... It was dodgy,
impure. This wasn't a 10 point programme, not
parties nor committees, nor leaders, not even
coordination. This was a tsunami of young people,
unpredictable, powerful. It swept through the
United Kingdom [NB actually England, not the UK] during the days which
followed the 4 August 2011 assassination of Mark Duggan,
29 years old, of West Indian origin, by the London
police. Over several days the crowds
stood up to the politicians, the State, the police...
One of them said: 'I will at last be able to tell
something to my grandchildren', 'We didn't do
anything special, just acted for ourselves,' another
added. Obviously, in this they have succeeded: 'scum', 'feral',
'criminal underclass', 'consumerists',
'confused', 'splitters', 'not clearly anticapitalist'
...The media, the government, political parties
drooled over them: Transfixed and shaking.
Oh, how these same could rave on ecstatically
about the beauty of the Arab revolutions, those 'brave
peaceful people' who overthrew tyrants who were
too compromised ...on condition that they knew
when to stop and were content to establish a Western democracy,
a cosmetic 'l'Oréal' dictatorship. But when in Tunisia and
Egypt it began to affect the police, the army, property,
that drew a 'no', if you please, no excess! So then, in the UK,
in the heart of the system, absent a dictator, one part of the
people -- the most oppressed, the most exploited,
victims of racism, in short, the salt of the earth --
dared to touch the pillars of 'democratic' capitalism
ie, the police and private property, the response was class hatred.
British justice has well understood that it was not the theft
of mp3 players or plasma television screens but the fact of
having dared to rebel together, spontaneously,
to have infringed on the symbols of the system that counted.
Such as in the case of the young man who received a six month
custodial sentence(!) for having stolen a pack of water.
And back home in France? It wasn't something that was liked here either.
The level of solidarity almost zero. As was the case
in 2005. What is in fashion, when it isn't elections, is
'l'indignation'. Last July 14th, during the march of the Parisian 'indignés', the banner carried by young people from the working class
quarters read: 'Working class quarters - police crimes, discrimination,
unemployment, (ya basta!) we have had enough!' In vain they were asked
to move out of the front line. This was allegedly 'a distortion',
the indignation was 'too political'.
What is it -- politics?
http://resistons.lautre.net/
informations pratiques juridiques sur le délit d'outrage,
l'aide juridictionnelle, les contrôles d'identité, réflexions,
témoignages, mobilisations...
« Fuck tha Police » et eau minérale
======================================================
Il y a celui qui a pris une bouteille d'eau minérale,
l'autre un paquet de chips ou un smartphone,
l'autre encore qui a taggé «fuck tha police»,
d'autres qui ont gueulé contre les dealers ayant
profité de leur révolte... Ce n'était pas net, pas
pur; pas de programme en 10 points, pas de
partis ni de comités, de dirigeants même pas
une coordination. C'était un tsunami de jeunes,
imprévisible, puissant qui a déferlé sur le
Royaume-Uni pendant les journées qui ont
suivi l'assassinat, le 4 août, de Mark Duggan,
29 ans, d'origine antillaise par la police de
Londres. Pendant quelques jours des foules
ont tenu tête aux politiciens, à l'État, à la police...
Il y en a un qui disait: «Je pourrais enfin raconter
quelque chose à mes petits enfants», l'autre
rajoutait «Nous n'avons rien fait de spécial,
juste on a pu agir nous mêmes». Évidement,
ça n'a pas raté, «racailles», «sauvages»,
«sous-classe criminelle», «consuméristes»,
«confus», «diviseurs»,«pas clairement anticapitalistes
»... Médias, pouvoirs, partis ont
bavé sur eux. Médusés et tremblants.
Oh, que les mêmes pouvaient s'extasier sur
la beauté des révolutions arabes, ces «braves
gens pacifiques» qui renversent les tyrans
trop compromis... à condition qu'ils sachent
s'arrêter à temps et qu'ils se contentent d'établir
une démocratie occidentale, une dictature
maquillée L'Oréal. Mais quand en Tunisie, en
Égypte on commence à toucher à la police, à
l'armée, aux biens alors ça non, s'il vous plaît,
pas d'excès ! Alors quand, au Royaume-Uni,
au coeur du système, faute de dictateur, une
partie du peuple, les plus opprimés, exploités,
victimes du racisme, bref le sel de la terre
ose toucher aux deux piliers du capitalisme
« démocratique », à savoir la police et la
propriété privée, c'est la haine de classe. La
justice britannique a bien compris que l'essentiel
n'était pas les vols de mp3 ou d'écrans
plats, mais le fait d'avoir osé se révolter
ensemble, spontanément, d'avoir touché aux
symboles du système. Comme l'avait fait ce
jeune homme qui, pour avoir volé un pack
d'eau, a pris 6 mois ferme (!).
Et chez nous, en France? Ça n'a pas plu non
plus. Solidarité niveau presque zéro. Comme
en 2005. Ce qui est à la mode, quand ce n'est
pas les élections, c'est «l'indignation». Le
14 juillet dernier, lors de la marche des «indignés
» parisiens, la banderole portée par des
jeunes des quartiers: «Quartiers populaires
- crimes policiers, discrimination, chômage -
ya basta!» a vainement été priée de quitter le
premier rang. Elle aurait «dénaturé» l'indignation,
elle était «trop politique». C'est quoi
la politique?
http://resistons.lautre.net/
informations pratiques juridiques sur le délit d'outrage,
l'aide juridictionnelle, les contrôles d'identité, réflexions,
témoignages, mobilisations...
« Fuck tha Police » et eau minérale

 


anon@indymedia.org (Réseau Résistons ensemble)
- Original article on IMC London: http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10166

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