Anger everywhere after the later use of article 49.3

It must be said that there is plenty of reason. The rejection of the law is unanimous among the workers, the working class and the proletarians : "What ?!, It’s impossible to work until we’re 64 ! We’ll be dead before then !" Anger against the bourgeoisie, the banker president, the millionaire ministers, the notable MPs, the heads of the employers’ organisation, with their contempt for the working class, their lack of interest in the fate and working conditions of the workers. Anger everywhere : in the big cities, but especially in the small towns, the small factories in rural areas at at traffic intersections , following on in the footsteps of the of the yellow vests movement. A huge wage of anger that is not set to die out even if for the moment the mobilisation has remained rather calm, more so than in 2010 and 2019 in any case.

And then the application of article 49.3 only poured more petrol on the fire.. Ah, how beautiful bourgeois democracy is ! How beautiful the parliamentary game is ! An endless stream of political skulduggery, from the way it was applied to a project on the welfare system to the different deployments of art. 49.3, not to mention to art. 47.1 limiting the time allotted to debates, art. 44.3 which imposes a block vote, and a joint committee held behind closed doors. Just pick a number !. Who still dares to talk about democracy ? Just for the record, all governments do this. For instance, the former Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, used article 49.3 twenty-eight times !

But in the end, we have to open our eyes. Bourgeois parliamentary democracy is nothing more than a playing field for negotiations, occasionally violent, between bourgeois factions on how to manage capitalism. There are the ultra-liberals, the statists and the reformists who dream of capitalism with a human face, the fascistic reactionaries, etc. All of them see the law as a means to change society.
But we the workers, the proletarians, the women and men, can see how things really stand. The law has only conceded a number of minor reforms in times of strong mobilisation, but on the whole it only serves to record the compromise reached between bourgeois currents to manage capitalism and always to the detriment of our living and working conditions : laws on temporary agency work, laws against undocumented migrants, laws on unemployment, laws on tenant evictions, laws to protect toxic chemicals, labour laws, laws on pensions, security laws, etc. We can continue to reminisce about the liberation of 1945 (80 years ago !) and May 1968 (55 years ago !), but the truth of the matter is that since the French Revolution of 1789 and the establishment of the domination of the industrial, commercial, banking and financial bourgeoisie, the various republics and parliaments have served to maintain its domination within the State. And don’t let anyone tell us that with the "left" it would be any different : we remember the austerity under former the former Prime Minister, Pierre Mauroy, in 1982 with the communists in the government, Jean-Pierre Chevènement and Manuel Valls’ anti-immigrant laws, Martine Aubry’s flexibility and working-time arrangements including as night-work for women, Michel Ricard’s white paper on pensions, not to mention Jean-Luc Mélenchon who served under the ex-Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, etc. .

Then, the problem arises when the trade union leaderships and the reformist politicians dream of "good", fair and equitable laws, dream of our exploiters "listening" to us, "respecting" us rather than looking down on us, to which end they adjust the calendar of mobilisations to fit in with the parliamentary schedule. What is the track-record to date ? We already tried that 2010 and it only led to failure.

The bourgeoisie, in the companies, the ministries and the media only understand one thing : the balance of power and violence. At this moment they are afraid, including for their cushy electoral seats. Organising based on the calendar set the exploiters is bound to fail our only future lies in class independence, in our mobilisation against exploitation, in our program and our organisation without worrying about the rotten parliamentary games, the results of which we are witnessing today...

The struggle will not stop here, that much is certain, even if today nobody can foresee what forms it will take. The anger and the frustration are running so high as to render it unstoppable .

It will be necessary to engage in a harder, longer, clearer fight. To build the organised power that the working class and the workers so desperately need, to confront the exploiters, to get rid of all the old and new reformists alike. The OCML Proletarian Way participates to the best its abilities : it is our fight to pave the path for a revolutionary future !