There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality. - C. Kaepernick

                                         The French people are showing their teeth. The struggle is in the streets, and not in parliament! 

 x Madrid Antirepressive Movement 

Meanwhile, in the antipodes of the defense of rights and freedoms is the Spanish State that, five years after the approval of the Gag Law 

The French people have for years shown an unusual determination to defend their democratic rights and freedoms. Only a few days have been enough to overturn the Global Security bill that the government wanted to pass, a law very similar to the Citizen Security Law or Gag Law that governs Spain.

 From the beginning, this cycle of protests was directed against the brutal police repression that the French people have been suffering for several years and, above all, against one of the most controversial sections of the aforementioned law, which precisely prohibited the dissemination of images of police actions.

The straw that broke the camel's back has been the release of a video where several police officers appear brutally attacking a music producer for not wearing a mask. This has been the spark that has ended up setting fire to and transforming protests, already massive and radicalized. The accumulated anger reached its peak on Saturday, November 28, when numerous luxury stores and several bank branches, including that of the Central Bank of France in Paris, were burned and tens of thousands of people clashed, including bodies to body, with the police in different cities of the country. The following day, the Macron government reversed, once again, its plan for the progressive elimination of the rights and freedoms of the French and the National Assembly decided by majority "a completely new wording of said law." However, far from quelling the revolts, the French people are no longer satisfied with the withdrawal of one section or another of the law, a determined fight for its total repeal, so the fight continues. 

 Furthermore, the high degree of political maturity in French society can be seen by the large number of reprisals, wounded, maimed and imprisoned that it has accumulated in recent years. A repression that has not only failed to curb their desire for freedom and justice, but has served as a spur for its continuation and even more radically and firmly.

 

 Meanwhile, in the antipodes of the defense of rights and freedoms is the Spanish State that, five years after the approval of the Gag Law, and having recently been validated in its entirety by the Constitutional Court, we are still waiting the electoral promises of the rogue "Progressive" Coalition. First they promised us its repeal, then only "its most damaging aspects", and finally we have verified that not even that. They have started to apply it in a generalized way to the entire population during the months of confinement. 

 In short, while the struggle of the French people has managed to push back their government in this sense in a few days, in the Spanish state the repression is becoming more general and more acute every day. The organized and determined struggle that has been developing in France, and that we have also seen in Ecuador, Peru or Chile, shows that it is the only way to confront the anti-working class and anti-popular plans that the different governments are trying to impose. The only way in which we can regain the rights and freedoms that have been taken from us is through organized resistance struggle, using all the means that we have at our disposal. 

Because rights must be defended tooth and nail. 

Let's fight for our rights and freedoms! December 2020