The anger and hatred that came down upon the bourgeois French state and its reforms with a multitude of actions – from strikes, to blockades and demonstrations, to all out country-wide rioting against the police and targeted attacks on state institutions - in what came to be known as the Yellow Vests Movement was a great outburst of the masses. In the face of such broad struggles, the state aims to break the fighting spirit of the people by means of repression and targeting those most advanced, as could also be seen clearly in the struggles against the G20.
In the months of the most recent struggle in France, thousands of people faced the direct and brutal repression of the police baton aiming at their heads, the grenades shot in their midst and pepper spray of the plain clothed police. More then 8.400 people were arrested and at least 1.800 of them were convicted on account of serious charges.
In the middle of this stood french revolutionaries, who remained firm in the first lines of struggles. In defense of those taken from us by the reaction, our comrades in France have take position for political prisoners in the past, like George Ibrahim Abdhalla or cowardly killed NDFP consultant Randy Felix Malayao as well as those locked up in the prisons of French state or the elderly woman in Marseille whose house collapsed upon her in last December following the explosion of grenade fired by the police during an attack on the Yellow Vests.
Now, as La Cause du Peuple has reported in its latest issue yesterday, the french state directly targets comrades affiliated with revolutionary politics. So it is the case with one of the sympathizers of the newspaper, who was seen to rescue a wounded person from within the struggles dragging it into safety in disregard for his own safety. To break the spirit of the fighting people and put away the most devoted to the cause of the people, this comrade was specifically targeted by the police in the struggles to take place later and was arrested on the 5nd of February at Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Solidarity with all the accused of the movement!
Being revolutionary is not a crime!
Being revolutionary is not a crime!
