involved in mobilisations against marginalisation?
Firstly, because of the demand for one of the most fundamental human rights: the right to work. It is an integral part of the totality of human rights, the same as the right to travel or the right to live with one's family.
It is a concern for everyone living on French soil, whatever their country of origin. It is a condition for citizenship and the right of everyone to live in dignity.
We have to recognise that the plague of unemployment conThe calling into question of the right to work opens up a chain of attacks on other fundamental rights, such as the right to housing, to education and to health.
Exclusion from such rights affects the whole of society. Racism increases this marginalisation of the most deprived, the poorest and especially foreigners.There is a link between racism and exclusion. Exclusion, marginalisation and precarious existence produce and legitimate racism.
Faced with its inability to provide concrete answers to social problems, of which employment is amongst the most important, the government throws immigration into the field of public opinion.
They have put in place a legal arsenal - the Nationality Code, identity controls, conditions on entry and remaining in the country - which challenges fundamental liberties such as the. right to live with one's family, the right of asylum, the right of residence, the right of nationality, the right of free movement.
The suspicion and arbitrariness encompassed in these laws make every immigrant into an intruder, a smuggler, a criminal, a delinquent.
By introducing legislation on gration. It cultivates the logic of scape-goats and increases xenophobic sentiments.
Every reactionary social measure introduced by the government, and every mobilisation that has forced them to retreat, has been accompanied by attacks on the rights of immigrants.
Anti-racists must mobilise against the logic of 'too many' immigrants and counterpose a logic of 'not enough': not enough jobs, houses, spending on schools.
Racism represents a threat to everyone because it grows on the denial of the values of equality, justice, comradeship and solidarity.
Racism divides, offers no solutions and leads to a dead-end. It sets 'North' against 'South', worker against unemployed, immigrant against deprived.
More than ever anti-racists need to act together for an active citizenship based on real and living solidarity. We need to seek out the road to equality and a better life together.
This is the reason for the participation of MRAP in the mobilisation of AC! in its fight against this filthy scourge ravaging our society and putting in peril the future of democracy. every military factory will be