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°Pas de Justice, Pas de Paix
“No justice, No Peace”. A communique from Mouvement de l’Immigration et des Banlieues (MIB), which you can find a translation of in the comments below, kindly done by Chris from Qlipoth.
“Crevez en Paix mes frères, mais crevez en silence, qu’on ne perçoive que l’écho lointain de vos souffrances … “
Communiqué du Mouvement de l’Immigration et des Banlieues
Ceux qui ne comprennent pas aujourd’hui les causes des émeutes sont amnésiques, aveugles ou les deux. En effet cela fait 30 ans que les banlieues réclament justice. 25 années que des révoltes, des émeutes, des manifestations, des Marches, des réunions publiques, des cris de colère avec des revendications précises ont été formulés. 
°Riot memes
The poster is of course from May ‘68 in France, events since iconised and relegated to the archive. The archive, at present, moves at a rapid pace (see the Wikipedia entry for perhaps the most sustained documentary effort so far). But the more pertinent question is whether comparisons might be drawn, or not, with the events of May 1968. All up, I’d say comparisons are in order, though it’s worth noting the significant differences.
°Baise la police
Whatever the origins of recent rioting in France, there seems to be no let up as yet and, just as with the LA riots of years ago, these riots have quickly surpassed their codification as ‘race riots’ as they extend outwards and continue.
A handy map of the spread, from the Daily Telegraph. And there are reports of more than twenty similar ‘incidents’ in Germany in more recent days.
Poor riots is surely a much more accurate description, because no matter the extent to which poverty is racialised, descriptors such as ‘race riot’ generally serve to reinscribe the sense in which the classifications of ‘race’ function to justify the distributions of impoverishment, deaths and worse, as if these are inherent attributes of ‘race’ as such.
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