France - August 27th, 2019

August 23rd, 2019: 23 years since the violent eviction of the “without papers” undocumented workers from Saint-Bernard church in Paris…

Enough with state violence against immigrant and undocumented workers!
Neither street nor prison... DOCUMENTS FOR EVERYONE!

On August 24th, the undocumented immigrant workers grouped in the Black Vests movement took to the streets in commemoration of the 23rd Anniversary of the violent eviction of the undocumented workers in Saint-Bernard church in Paris. About 300 immigrant workers marched through the streets of La Chapelle district towards Saint-Bernard Church.
They marched through the streets chanting slogans and demands of their struggle, for a decent life and work, for papers for all immigrant workers and youth, for the destruction of all Detention Centers and for stopping the infamous deportations. During the demonstration many black, Arabs and workers from different nationalities, who are typical in La Chapelle neighborhood, applauded and sang when they joined the demonstration to the church.
The murderous police, constantly harassing and persecuting immigrant workers and youth in the working-class neighborhoods, accompanied the demonstration. Upon arriving at the church, it set up a fence preventing the speeches to take place. The police apparatus closed the street that leads to the church and warned that "they would not tolerate any trouble." Thus the demonstration remained there, shouting their slogans and even chanting what resonates in every march of the workers and the French youth: “Everybody hates the police” and “Police everywhere, justice nowhere”.
Undocumented workers and immigrants grouped in the “Black Vests” movement are fighting imperialism today, which oppresses workers in the colonial and semi-colonial world, forcing them to leave their homes looking for a life and work worthy and yet, when they arrive in the metropolis, they are harshly persecuted and repressed. More than 20 years have passed since the violent eviction of the Church of Saint Bernard and the attack and violence of the Fifth French Republic remain intact.

French imperialism over-exploits hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers, making them work in deplorable conditions, as slaves, taking advantage of the situation of "irregularity" to which they are subjected by imperialism itself, blackmailing them and taking advantage of them.
The undocumented workers and the Black Vests are still fighting and they want to unify their combat with the one the Yellow Vests against the government. The heart of the French working class, the undocumented immigrants from the Black Vests movement, have entered the scene!

Stop the repression of the state!
Out with the murderous police from our neighborhoods and demonstrations!
Neither street nor prison!
Documents for everyone now!
We must end the Detention centers!
Down with the imperialist French Fifth Republic!
Macron resignation!
LONG LIVE THE FIGHT OF THE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND BLACK VESTS!

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