In the last few weeks, immigrants and their supporters have launched a nationwide wave of resistance against the repressive attacks on them. Last issue we covered both the massive march in Chicago on March 10 and militant streetcorner, grassroots resistance in L.A. In this issue we bring you news of a demonstration of 30,000 to 40,000 in DC and an anti-war march that went from Tijuana to L.A., crossing more borders than just the physical one in doing so. On this page we bring you excerpts from a statement by the Chicago branch of the RCP which puts the struggle in the larger context of revolution, communism, as well as a basic and brief analysis of what is up with the anti-immigrant bills.

“The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story—the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war—has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence...

A great upsurge is taking place across the United States! Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are stepping out of the shadows, into the sun. In Chicago, up to a half million filled Daley Plaza, shutting down the city, chanting "¡se siente, se siente, el inmigrante esta presente!" ( The immigrants are here, you can feel it!) In Milwaukee—home of Congressman Sensenbrenner, author of the cruel bill that set off the protests—25,000 marched. Tens of thousands went into the streets in Washington DC. In Phoenix, over 20,000 demonstrators marched to the office of Republican Senator Jon Kyl, co-sponsor of a bill that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. In Georgia, tens of thousands of immigrants stayed away from work in protest against a new state law there that would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegal immigrants. As we go to press, students have walked out of schools throughout Southern California, and hundreds of thousands are filling the streets of Los Angeles.

Franc-Parler reproduit un article écrit au lendemain des élections fédérales 2006. Dans le cadre du discours du trône du nouveau gouvernement du Parti Conservateur le 4 avril, la désinformation s'intensifie à propos du résultat des élections et de l'annexion du Canada aux États-Unis. La récente visite de Stephen Harper en Afghanistan en est un exemple frappant.

Dans le cadre du dossier sur la "crise nucléaire" en Iran, Franc-Parler publie, à titre d'information, une intervention de la délégation cubaine à la réunion extraordinaire des gouverneurs de l'AIEA.

20 March 2006. A World to Win News Service. Globalisation means that hundreds of millions, even billions of lives are being swallowed under the thundering wheels of imperialist finance capital. The tribal people of the eastern Indian state of Orissa are locked in a desperate fight to escape being crushed. They are fighting the theft of their land and livelihood by multinational corporations and giant Indian capitalists dependent on the merciless international market. The following is abridged from a lengthy article about the revolt of tribal people in Orissa and other states of India in the March 2006 issue of the Indian magazine People’s March. (www.peoplesmarch.com)

Terry Jones, ancien Monty Python, publie « Ma guerre contre la "guerre au terrorisme" » (Flammarion), une réjouissante satire orwellienne de la « guerre au terrorisme ».

Le 18 mars 2006 marque le 135e anniversaire de la proclamation de la Commune de Paris, noyée dans le sang par la suite.

Le Comité éditorial de Franc-Parler annonce que son deuxième numéro sera disponible en format imprimé dès le mardi 21 mars et que son contenu sera disponible sur son site internet dans les jours suivants.

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