A-Infos (en) France: Alternative Libertaire statement on the railway "sabotage" - DON'T LET THEM CRIMINALISE ANY FORM OF CRITICISM! [fr, it]

Once again, capitalist society happily violates its own legality in the affair 
being known as the "anarcho-autonomous movement", following the arrest of 10 
people as part of an investigation into "acts of sabotage" on SNCF railway 
lines: the presumption of innocence blithely ignored; the use of 
ultra-repressive measures provided for by anti-terrorist legislation in a case 
which is evidently nothing to do with terrorism; charges of criminal association 
on the basis of a mere collection of political documents without any concrete 
facts to back up this "evidence"! Large sectors of the media, the political 
world and the judiciary allow this to happen, or even approve, showing that the 
"State of law" is only really applied to the powerful in this society that is so 
fundamentally unjust!

Once again, a political and media lynch-mob is being let loose on a scapegoat. 
This disinformation campaign based on the suggestion of the existence of a 
"clandestine", "radical" organization is simply aimed at creating more fear in 
the country and hostility against anyone who challenges the capitalist system.

Once again, mass manipulation is the preferred weapon of the dominant class, 
which is having to face its own fear that a social crisis may put its privileges 
at risk. No-one knows if the accused really are the authors of this "sabotage", 
but we must remember that the consequences of these acts pale in comparison to 
the consequences of the financial crisis orchestrated by capitalism.

Those guilty of that crisis are well known and the decisions that have been made 
will reduce hundreds of millions of workers to poverty. And these delinquents 
can go on enjoying the fruit of their crimes with total impunity.

Let there be no doubt! In these times when the very foundations of capitalism 
are being questioned, this campaign has the aim of criminalising anyone who 
fights against injustice and against the misery that is being imposed on workers.

Alternative Libertaire appeals to everyone not to be taken in by this shoddy 
propaganda. We believe that these malicious acts in no way serve the social 
struggles, but whoever they were carried out by, they can in no way be 
considered terrorist acts.

Enough of these security-obsessed policies whose only aim is to defend social 
inequality and capitalist privilege. Let's build together a mass mobilisation, 
an expropriating general strike that can impose the changes we need, in other 
words, the birth of an anarchist communist society!


Alternative Libertaire
18 November 2008

Translation by FdCA-International Relations Office

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org
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