Bulletin février mars 2025 On 23 January, the European Parliament adopted a resolution [1] condemning the arrest in Algiers of the French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and demanding his release. He has been detained for seventy days in Algeria for: " undermining national unity ".
The vote [2] was achieved by 533 votes in favour, 24 against and 48 abstentions. The text had been submitted in a cross-party manner by several political groups: the socialists, the European People's Party (EPP), the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) , the liberals of Renew and the ecologists. As for the French deputies, the socialists and ecologists voted unanimously in favour, the macronists of Renew, the right of LR and those of the National Rally also. In this unanimity the vote of the representatives of LFI was divided between four against and two abstentions.
Following this vote, a virulent campaign was launched against all those who had dared to vote against it, and on this occasion we saw the resurfacing of hackneyed arguments based on Stalinism , ranging from the Socialist Party through the Greens to the Macronists, the Republicans and the National Rally. To cite just one example, PS senator Laurence Rossignol accused the Insoumis who voted against of being " the new Stalinists": " Yesterday Alexandre Solzhenitsyn, today Boualem Sansal" while, for his part, Retailleau, the hunter of immigrant workers, called on LFI to explain its vote.
All these heroes of democracy and respect for human rights, while quick to draw their guns to support imperialist policies, are on the other hand extremely discreet when it comes to condemning, by taking action: the breakdown of economic and political relations with the colonial state of Israel, the genocide perpetrated in Gaza or when it is necessary to demand the release of the oldest political prisoner, GI Abdallah, who has been languishing in French prisons for forty years following a rigged trial!
This union is wildly reminiscent of the one that prevailed throughout the Algerian War, which, from Guy Mollet and Mitterrand, through the right and Le Pen, proclaimed French Algeria and attacked all those who challenged this vision of things and campaigned for an independent Algeria. All these colonial war mongers from Vietnam to Algeria, including the savage repression of peoples fighting for their independence, still cannot digest independent and sovereign Algeria. Their hatred is that of a neo-colonialism that would like to make Algeria the stepping stone for the reconquest of French domination in Africa by relying on Morocco, whose servility to Western imperialist interests is very real.
In a situation where Algeria is one of the few countries in the region to support the legitimate national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people as well as that of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, it is appropriate for the political forces that support French imperialism to weaken Algeria's sovereignty.
Today, incidents such as the extradition of Amira Bouraou, the Goncourt Prize affair attributed to the far-right supporter Kamel Daoud or the exploitation of the arrest of the pro-Zionist impostor Boualem Sansal who, in an interview with a far-right media outlet, questioned the recognized sovereignty of Algeria [3] over a significant part of the Sahara in favor of Morocco, illustrate this scapegoat mechanism. By transforming isolated events into diplomatic crises, French leaders seek to divert attention from internal social fractures in France. The objective is clear: to fragment French society by pointing to external culprits, while obscuring the real economic and social issues. In times of crisis, this strategy allows the government to absolve itself of its responsibilities in the economic, social and political crisis that France is going through and which is making the working classes even more precarious. This policy of division only aggravates social and international tensions. By exacerbating resentment towards Algeria, France is embarking on a slippery slope, compromising its relations with a historic partner and fueling racist anti-immigrant campaigns.
We definitely have nothing to do with these politicians! Our compass is that of the struggle for the national liberation of the people against imperialism and for socialism.