January 23rd, 2015

Charlie Hebdo: a proto-fascist magazine at the service of French imperialism to provoke the oppressed masses of Maghreb and Middle East

The attack on magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7th in Paris started a pacifist reactionary wave not only in France but all over Europe. This magazine, on behalf of “freedom of the press”, humiliates, insults, provokes and makes fun of Muslim peoples, their believes and culture. Muslims are over 800 million all over the world. In France they are about 6 million, including immigrants and their children. They are the most exploited layer of the French working class who do the worst jobs, receive the lowest wages, work in the worst conditions and suffer the highest rates of unemployment. This layer is oppressed, chased, repressed and killed by the French bourgeoisie and their fascist police –such abuses have doubled after the attack. As if all that was not enough, from this magazine they are humiliated; the massacres against the Muslim world are celebrated and set on. This magazine becomes then a tool of French imperialist butchers to promote among middle classes and French labor aristocracy the feeling that Muslims are “savages” and French population are “civilization”.
Charlie Hebdo constantly publishes offensive cartoons and even makes fun of the massacres against the Arab peoples, causing their rightful hate. In 2006 Berlusconi wore a t-shirt in public with cartoon made by Charlie, the Muslim exploited answered by attacking the Italian Embassy in Libya. The outrage returned in 2012 when they keep provoking with an offensive US movie, by publishing several covers on this. In July 2013 before a killing of exploited people in Egypt, the magazine published a cover that said “Koran sucks: it does not stop bullets” with the picture of an Arab man killed with Koran in his hands. Is this what they call humor? What do they laugh about? This can only be funny for high layers of French labor aristocracy who live on the leftovers falling from the super-exploitation that imperialist bourgeoisie carries on over the peoples it oppresses. Do they laugh of the massacre against the Syrian people? Of the massacre against the Palestinian people? This proto-fascist magazine looks like the pictures used by Zionism where they show a Palestinian pregnant woman and it says “one shot, two kills”… how much hate they show against the Muslim masses! This is not by chance… French state is an ally of the state of Israel, to which it provides weapons and supports with millionaire businesses. This is why in the 5th Republic humiliate oppressed peoples and insult their religion is “freedom of the press”, but marching against the Zionist massacre over the tormented Palestine people… is forbidden! This is the freedom of press for French imperialism! Charlie never published cartoons making fun of the massacres, against the genocide of Al Assad in Syria or against the French invasion to Mali or against the Zionist-fascist state of Israel.
And after the “attack” the magazine kept provoking in the last issue. Facing this situation and all the shame, humiliation and oppression the Arab masses demonstrated in the streets against the French embassies and offices in tens of countries in tens of countries all over Africa and Middle East. In Pakistan there were fights with the police, in Niger there were combats against the anti-riot police and there were several deaths; in Sudan the shouts were “out with the ambassador from France” and “French government must apologize”; in Jordan denouncing the “offense to the great prophet is world terrorism”, in Palestine, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Qatar, Afghanistan and Chechnya.
For all these reasons: We are not Charlie! We are the exploited people rebelling in Yemen; we are the resistance that does not surrender in Palestine; we are the ones who suffer the imperialist invasion in Mali, Central Africa, Ivory Coast!
We are the revolution of Maghreb and Middle East that has not been defeated yet and we fight to destroy the Fascist State of Israel and the butcher 5th French Republic!