[lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/21/06, Seth Ackerman <sethackerman1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > And yet, it is telling
> > that, after the victory over the CPE, streets of France went quiet,
> > even as the National Assembly passed a bill for selective immigration:
> > for skilled and educated workers from the South, against non-skilled
> > and ill educated workers from the South:
> >
>
> Actually there were demonstrations, organized by the Communists and
> others on the left, "contre l'immigration jettable." They just weren't
> huge, like the anti-CPE ones.
>
> Seth

They were small probably because they don't have deep and broad
connections with youths in suburbs of Paris and other cities, who
revolted last year.

Many French leftists are very ambivalent and often confused about
Muslims, as are many leftists here and the rest of the EU.

-- 
Yoshie
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