No to recolonization! Solidarity with the Kanak people in struggle – Collectif Solidarité Kanaky (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) machine translation
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A summary of the events of 2 days which resemble a precursor to civil war.
And the May 15 press release from the CCAT (Field Action Coordination Unit) —- Kanaky/New Caledonia: —-
NO to thawing the electorate! NO to recolonization! (Text from the Kanaky solidarity collective —-
This Monday, May 13, the day before the vote in the national assembly, the demonstrations of the separatists against the thaw of the electorate increased;
blocked roads or filter dams, well-attended strike at the port and airport of Nouméa, closure of numerous administrations, fires lit in different places, start of mutiny in the Nouméa prison, clashes between young Kanaks and the police in working-class neighborhoods , numerous injuries and mass arrests.
It is in this insurrectional context that the vote in the national assembly will take place on May 14 on the unfreezing of the electorate.
To try to stop this dangerous process for the future of the Kanak people, the elected representatives of the Congress of New Caledonia met this Monday, May 13 and managed to adopt, by a majority, a resolution requesting the withdrawal of this bill. on the electorate.
Elected officials remind the State that the majority of them are against this bill.
30 years after the Nouméa Accord, as well as the transfer of skills and their rebalancing, inequalities remain very significant, the non-respect of priority to local employment: in many sectors, it is the metropolitans recently arrived in New Caledonia, due to attractive conditions (salary level and indexation, advantages in terms of housing or installation support), who occupy positions to the detriment of Kanak workers with equal skills. Thus continues a long tradition of privileges offered to French people going to work overseas.
Conditions which make it possible to strengthen the settlement colony that this Pacific territory has always represented for the French state. This is in total violation of international law. Indeed, Kanaky/New Caledonia remains a non-autonomous territory under international law, as such included on the list of countries to be decolonized according to United Nations resolution 15-14.
The Nouméa Accord is a decolonization agreement. It provided for 3 self-determination referendum consultations. The second referendum showed, in 2020, a surge in pro-independence votes: by only 9,000 votes, the “Yes” to the full sovereignty of New Caledonia was in the majority.
The conditions of the third and final referendum, at the end of 2021, are today still contested by all the independence currents, which had requested following the Covid epidemic and the confinement which prevented any campaign, the postponement of the consultation and the respect for both Edouard Philippe’s promise to keep it in 2022 and the Kanak mourning period. This 3rd referendum is not recognized by the separatists who did not participate in the vote. A complaint is planned on this subject to the International Court of Justice.
Today, the French government has decided to take force. He unilaterally presents two draft laws on the institutional future of Kanaky/New Caledonia which put at stake the future of the Kanak people, and the stability of the country. They are aiming for an exit under highly contested and non-consensual conditions from the Nouméa Accord, with the consequence of a considerable worsening of divisions.
The first bill concerning the postponement of provincial elections was adopted last March, the second aims to modify the constitution is central to the Nouméa Accord, no modification should be made by a unilateral decision of the State, without a global agreement between local political forces.
These bills revive the proven practices of putting the Kanak people in a minority in their own country, for the benefit of a local right which would like to find a majority in its favor by modifying the seats in the Congress of New Caledonia.
The State is engaged in a brutal modification of the entire organization of democratic life in New Caledonia. This is a way of promoting the recolonization of the territory and the invisibility of the Kanak people!
n of Field Actions,) which brings together all the pro-independence currents. The objectives are clear: the request for the withdrawal of the bill on the unfreezing of the electorate, the non-recognition of the 3rd referendum, and the continuation of the decolonization trajectory.
This forceful move by the French state brings back sad memories and promotes an extremely dangerous dynamic of tension. The May 1 mobilization was massive and this year marked politically by this political context.
Today the slightest spark can set the country ablaze.
The week of May 4, 2024 until May 13, 2024, was a week of continued mobilizations and actions by the CCAT. Started on May 4, 2024 – for the anniversary of the death of Jean-Marie Tjibaou on May 4, 1989, and the anniversary of the massacre of the 19 of the Ouvéa cave on May 5, 1988 – until the presentation of the text to the National Assembly this May 13, 2024. Rallies in front of all the country’s gendarmes on May 5, 2024, marches in different cities every day. Many mines are already blocked, such as in Houailou and Thio.
The mobilization is entering its 3rd phase.
This May 13, 2024, the two federations USTKE, T.H.T (Air and Land Transport, Hotels) and Ports & Docks go on strike, followed by 99%.
At the port, only essential goods are released (perishable goods and medicines), all port companies have decided to close at 3 p.m. Slowdown in the economy today. The Wetr chiefdom in Lifou has decided to close the island’s airport.
At the Tontouta airport, plane flights were seriously delayed due to employees leaving their posts, disrupting the operation of services at the airport.
The CCAT’s mobilizations on road access also disrupted the country.
The Country is mobilizing everywhere, with filter dams.
A mutiny began at the East camp prison, three guards were taken hostage, RAID intervention.
Young people confronted the police, the mobile gendarmes, because the same ones fired flash balls at the young people provoking their anger.
The country is experiencing extreme tension while awaiting the vote in the national assembly.
Furthermore, repression is strong. Several people prosecuted since the demonstration on February 21 were put on trial on April 19 at the Nouméa Court, receiving very heavy sentences. Two demonstrators are locked up in the East camps, five other demonstrators are free but with electronic bracelets. Since then, there have been numerous arrests, some people have been released but with prosecutions, others are in pre-trial detention, or kept in police custody.
They are political prisoners!
Monday May 13, 2024, 18 people were to appear in immediate appearance the trial was
postponed, for some for the simple reason of wearing the Kanaky flag! Never seen …!
The Solidarité Kanaky collective, created in 2007, brings together different associative, trade union and political organizations with the objective of organizing solidarity in France with the Kanak people in their decolonization trajectory. Alongside the various pro-independence currents, we reaffirm our solidarity with the union and political struggles of Kanak and non-Kanak separatists, against the colonial, racist, capitalist and repressive situation of the French State in Kanaky.
We appeal to parliamentarians who in the National Assembly will be responsible for deciding on the law unfreezing the electoral body of New Caledonia.
Kanaky/New Caledonia is not a French territory, but under international law a “non-autonomous territory”. The constitutional bill proposed unilaterally with a view to unfreezing the electoral body, in violation of international law, leads parliamentarians to assume the responsibility of deciding, more than 22,000 km away, the future of an entire people. Or even a possible conflagration in Kanaky/New Caledonia.
This bill must be withdrawn.
Let us demand the release and dropping of charges for those accused of the current mobilizations.
Let’s take solidarity actions here in France against the two bills and in solidarity with the current movement in Kanaky.
Solidarity with the CCAT and the mobilized Kanak people!
We call for participation in THE RALLY THIS TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Salvador Allende Square (closest authorized to the National Assembly) AGAINST THE VOTE ON THE FREEZING OF THE ELECTORAL BODY AND FOR THE IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BILL.
The Kanaky Solidarity Collective:
MJKF (Young Kanak Movement in France), USTKE (Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Kanak et des Exploités (in France), Union Solidaires, CNT (National Confederation of Labor), STC (Sindicatu di i Travagliadori Corsi), Association Survie, FASTI (Federation of Solidarity Associations with All Immigrants), FUIQP (United Front of Immigration and Working-class Neighborhoods), Neither War nor State of War, UP (Pacifist Union), Together!, NPA (New Party Anti-capitalist), PCOF (Communist Workers’ Party of France), PEPS (For a Popular and Social Ecology), PIR (Indigenous Party of the Republic), UCL (Libertarian Communist Union).
Last minute:
Tuesday May 14
The high commissioner, representative of the French state appointed by the government, Louis Le Franc, organizes a press conference the day after the first night of “violence”.
At his side, the general commander of the New Caledonia gendarmerie and no less than 3 representatives of the local Caldoche right: the mayor of Nouméa (macronist), the LR mayor of Païa (northern suburb of Nouméa where the airport is located international of Tontouta) and the president of the South province, Sonia Backès (macronist, ex-UMP), formerly in the government of E. Terminal in 2022-23.
These three caldoches, as well as the entire local right (from the Macronists to the RN), called for more repression, the establishment of a state of emergency and the deployment of the army in the archipelago.
The high commissioner said it is “not a good idea”. The curfew (from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.) is not of much use but the police and gendarmerie reinforcements arriving from Polynesia and then from mainland France should be enough (GM and CRS with RAID, GIGN, etc.)… as well as the tripling staffing of the local judiciary in order to speed up trials by immediate appearance.
And then, politically, the law has been passed… all that remains is to convene Congress to change the Constitution.
The decolonization process, begun by the Matignon Accords of 1988, has just been stopped, destroyed, pulverized, thus responding to the political interests of the local right which coincide with those, more strategic, of the French State in the Asia-Pacific region.
In two days, there were more than 200 arrests and GAV… a figure which will increase in the coming days, because, even if the situation “calms down” (to be seen and how, with what means?), the authorities have announced that there will be prosecutions and arrests for the violence, the ransacking, the fires (we are still talking about a hundred shops and businesses burned) and the looting. Raids are therefore expected in the coming weeks in the neighborhoods where young Kanaks in the Greater Nouméa area are concentrated, many more numerous in this urban part of the archipelago than in the years 1984-88.
As for the French State, with a Macron who breaks agreements and consensuses, who clearly chooses to relaunch a logic of polarization and confrontation, and to include this in constitutional law, he can always declare that he is in favor of negotiated solutions… who can still believe it?
On Wednesday May 15 in the evening the news broke: a state of emergency will be declared at the request of Macron.
The State has therefore decided to have an even heavier hand… and free rein on the spot, while agreeing with the anti-independenceists.
But it’s true that between yesterday and today, the data has changed: there are 3 deaths (3 young Kanaks), a cop in a critical situation with a bullet in the head, “around 300 injured” which appears to be there are around a hundred police officers, that the situation has become more uncontrollable (even with a mutiny and attempted escape of inmates from the Nouméa prison), that quite a few caldoches and metro workers have locked themselves in and barricaded themselves in their neighborhoods , that everything is at a standstill (airport and schools closed, economy paralyzed….), that many people are armed in this territory, a bit in the American style…
According to estimates, there are around 130,000 firearms in the archipelago (including 64,000 declared), for an estimated population of 270,000 inhabitants.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4170
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