“National Rally Rejoins Petanist Vision of Work”

tribune. National Rally (RN) MP Grégoire de Fourna’s racist remarks towards the “rebellious” MP Carlos Bilongo at the Hemicycle at the beginning of November caused the masks to be dropped: the National Rally is still the heir of the party. Petanism and its racism. A new wind of outrage is now blowing through every Republican seat in the Assembly. With the sanction of his deputy, the strategy of “normalization” of RN is cracked.

After coming to the National Assembly, far-right MPs still tried to play the card of constructive opposition. They are quiet, they do not raise their voice, they join the voice of many majority or opposition voices. The finger on the seam of the pants, the head does not come out, only the speakers of the group express calibrated verbality. But can we judge a group’s political credibility by its position? Much more than Hemicycle’s attitude, it is the political inspiration of their proposals that allows them to unmask.

The clearest example came when Discussion of unemployment insurance reform started in October. By introducing an amendment that excluded foreigners working in France from occupational elections, the Assembly National returned to the Vichyist concept specific to Pétain’s Charter of Labor, in which workers and bosses formed a common national cause against enemy forces and their “internal allies”. The division within the company, which is essentially related to the subordinate relationship between employees and management, has been replaced by the spread of national economic interests.

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This national imperative imposes a moderation in the demand for wages, which is then subordinated to the generosity which the patriotic fiber should induce among the employers. This neo-corporatist logic developed in the 1930s in reaction to and opposition to the concept of class struggle that structured workers’ demands.

For the horizontal breakdown of the unity of the working class, linked to its difficult living conditions and its exploitation by the employer class, which does not work, the extreme right substitutes a vertical breakdown of the national unity between the workers and the French bosses, which is limited by the need to protect the nation, whose survival would be endangered, the alleged morality A victim of perversion, supposed moral decadence, foreign powers and the greed of his fantastic allies from within.