Banlieue

The anti-CPE struggle
Extracts of an analysis by Theorie Communist

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Article on the nationwide movement of school students and teachers against education reform, and on the attacks on student demomstrations which occured by youth from the banlieus.

Police were called after a barricade was erected in one of the roads leading to the fire station in Clichy. According to Police reports the four or five police cars were attcked by a group of over twenty youths throwing stones and they used rubber bullets to disperse the group. Jiade was arrested running away in a side street.

In Paris 12 bus routes were closed on saturday night for 'security reasons'. There was however one case of a bus being burnt in Yvelines (north-western suburb of Paris). Overnight there were also isolated incidents of buses being stoned and of projectiles being thrown at police.

A silent march was held at ten o’clock on Friday morning and was attended by over 1000 people. The march was led by the families of the two dead boys, marching behind a banner “Zyed et Bouna, morts pour rien” (Zyed et Bouna dead for nothing). Many of the mostly young crowd were wearig t-shirts with either the names of the two boys or “morts pour rien” written on them.

Over the past week 6 buses have been set alight in the Parisian suburbs.

On Wednesday night buses were burnt in Nanterre (Seine-Saint-Denis), Montreuil (Hauts-de-Seine), Athis-Mons (Essonne) and a bus was burnt in Grigny (Essonne) last Sunday.