May 01, 2007

Labor Day à la française

Le 1er mai - May 1st - or La fête du travail - Labor Day - is a tradition in France: trade unions - most of them communists - demonstrate in the streets of Paris as work is celebrated with a holiday. It is the occasion to make des revendications - claims - such as higher salaries, higher pensions, more holidays, etc.

Here is what it looked like this year. Are the communists about to get their day of glory hijacked by, er, "insurgents" or is this the beginning of a new, great alliance, Ribbentrop-Molotov style?

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[Background] Let's unite under Maoism - [Front] Solidarity with the Palestinians

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Long live Marxism-Leninism / Socialism will save the world

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Proletarians of all countries, unite!

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Our grandmas are worth more than their profits

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On the truck: anti-Sarkozy posters.

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Tamil Association of Drancy

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Children on the Tamil truck.

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Coca Cola murders Colombian unionists - Let's not finance death!

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Posted by Carine at May 1, 2007 10:40 PM
Comments

Quelle constance dans la démarche !
Ce blog que personne ne lit, est peut être une bonne manière de soigner tes névroses après tout.

A part ça .... t'as perdu quelques kilos Carine, ou tu es toujours aussi grosse et frustrée, avec des gros doigts boudinés ???

Se faire passer pour un canon dans ton logo, c'est de la publicité mensongère.
En vrai ... tu es vraiment loin de ça !

Toujours pas le courage non plus pour aller habiter dans ton pays de cons ???
Remarque, je te comprend, aux States, tu ne ferais pas long feu.

Bon allez, je te laisse à tes nombreuses frustations.
Mes amitiés au seul homme de ta vie, je veux parler de ton psy.

Je passerai lire tes conneries à 2 balles, et je reviendrai bientôt faire caca sur ton magnifique " Flog ", histoire de le faire vivre un peu.

@ bientôt, et .... pense à maigrir !!!

Posted by: Not enough at May 2, 2007 01:25 AM

GÉ-NIAL!

Ça me rappelle ma jeunesse, du temps que le PCF se râflait 25% des voix minimum, bon an, mal an. Le temps de "Vaillant le journal le plus captivant" avec "Mao, fils de Chine" et je ne sais plus quelle bd à la gloire de Enver Hodja, et des articles scientifiques expliquant comment Mitchourine et de Lyssenko apprenaient aux tomates à pousser en Sibérie.

Mais surtout le temps de l'Huma, à la langue de super-bois. Pas du balsa, pas du pin, mais du teck, du bois de fer, du solide ça mon camarade!

Un bain de jouvence, je vous dis!

"Let's unite under Maoism"

Ah oui... Moi j'avais lu trop vite sans faire bien attention et j'avais cru voir: "REUNISSEZ-VOUS SOUS LE MACADAM!" (Gather under the tarmac). Ça aurait pu être une injonction à former un mouvement underground... Mais c'est bien MAOISME qu'il y a d'écrit, oui oui.

Et là le MLKP et son "VIVE LE MARXISME-LENINISME" avec la binette à Staline, alors que de nos jours, la binette au Petit Père des Peuples, on ne la voit même plus sur la Pravda (la déchéance!)

Un bain de jouvence, je vous réitère!

Merci, merci. On en veut d'autres! Et mon Che, et mon Fidel, et mon Hugo, et mon oncle Ho, et mon Polly Potty, où c'est-y qu'y sont-y???

Posted by: Rapetout at May 2, 2007 06:18 AM
Quelle constance dans la démarche ! Ce blog que personne ne lit, est peut être une bonne manière de soigner tes névroses après tout.

Ah c'est beau la France ! Ca insulte et ça fait de la projection. Ca pue aussi.

Mais vous êtes le bienvenu ici. Vous êtes tellement représentatif de la France, vous faites une magnifique étude de cas.

Posted by: Carine at May 2, 2007 10:37 AM

Brandir des drapeaux russes et piétiner le drapeau américain : c'est précisément cette attitude complètement décalée que j'apprécie chez les Français !

Merci donc pour ces photos : elles m'ont fait sourire.

Cela dit, j'espère sincèrement qu'ils voteront socialiste la semaine prochaine. Une France politiquement mature serait beaucoup moins drôle...

Allez, vive Ségo !

:o)

Posted by: thomas at May 2, 2007 12:28 PM

@Not enough
Et bien vieille pute, on est toute énervée ? On a pas pu se déplacer avec les kamarades nazillons faucille/marteau le 1er mai ? On était coincé au lit à cause d'une fuite de son anus artificiel soviétique ? Bah c'est l'âge, vieille merde, faut t'y faire, tu as eu une vie merdeuse et inutile de petit coco-facho, et maintenant tu es grabataire. Triste vieillard rachitique, tu te fais mousser en insultant quelqun que tu n'as jamais vu, avec des descriptions tout droit sorties de ta cervelle putride abreuvée de marxisme et de gros rouge... Bravo ! Tu auras peut-être ta statue dans ce pays qui a su porter aux nues les plus grands losers de l'histoire de l'humanité, à égalité avec tout ce que la terre a porté de barbares socialistes et leurs centaines de millions de morts.

@Thomas
Tout à fait d'accord, Ségogole, guère plus socialiste que Sarko, continuera le travail de massacre de l'Entité Pétainiste, et c'est une excellente chose !

Posted by: Hervé Grouik at May 2, 2007 02:04 PM

My God, is there really that much nostalgia for the USSR? Don't they have a phrase for that in French, la nostalgie de la boue?

I recall that some years back a riverbank in Siberia began to erode after a series of floods. As the river began to scour a new course, it exposed a mass grave. Hundreds of bodies, perfectly preserved in the frozen ground, most bearing a single gunshot wound to the head, came to light. The authorities solved the situation by using fireboats to train their high-pressure water cannons on the riverbank and wash the corpses into the river and out to the Arctic. (Hello, Greens, do you see what your Red friends have been putting in the river?)

You may say what you like about Abu Ghraib, but if you were to give me the choice of wearing women's panties on my head and being barked at by dogs or getting a 9mm slug to the back of the head, I would not hesitate. Although, I might ask to be better acquainted with the previous occupant of the panties. The dog can go out and play in the yard.

Posted by: Mitch at May 3, 2007 04:09 AM

Merci!

Hotty Socialiste Français Segolene Royal contre le Meilleur Espoir de France Nicolas Sarkozy dans Présidentiel Run-Off...


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers dit
la poussée pour une trois semaine de travail de jour

les gens ne doivent pas avoir à travailler
devrait vous être payé pour rester à la maison


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers pense
gagnant votre argent est MAUVAIS

tous prix devraient être gardés
le niveau bas personne doit aller sans les choses


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers dit
les gens de promesse la lune

n'importe quoi obtenir le vote
juste les permettent de mange alors du gâteau


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers dit
toujours freine des affaires

les empêcher de l'embauche
mais faire semblant ils sont vos amis


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers pense
que l'haut chômage est bon

grandir les jeunes soucieux
de poussée de population vers le crime


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers dit
nie des gens la vérité

le grand berceau vivant à la tombe
prodigue des avantages ne coûtent pas


la pensée absurde -
Dieu de l'Univers dit
a laissé des immigrants dominent

traiter mieux que citoyens
dire au revoir à la culture Française
.

Posted by: USpace at May 3, 2007 08:13 AM

These folks are LIVING these lyrics from The Rocky Horror Picture Show:

The Time Warp

It's astounding, time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely, not for very much longer
I've got to keep control

I remember doing the TIme Warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling
Let's do the time warp again...
Let's do the time warp again!

It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!

It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can't see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation, like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again!

Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pickup truck and the devil's eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again!

Posted by: Valerie, Texas at May 3, 2007 04:33 PM

What are they teaching these children? If only they had been taught about the millions of people that Lenin Marx Mao sent off to the next world, these stupid kids wouldn't be so keen for a resurgence.
That one sign about the worth of Grandma, juxtaposed with the thousands of real life grandmas in France, who were dispatched due to lack of air conditioners, is particularly disturbing.

Who is the candidate they are against?
Whoever they are against, I am for.

Posted by: Papertiger at May 3, 2007 04:49 PM

What Mademoiselle Hénaff (which happens to also be a brand of pork-and-sow paté) is that similar May 1 marches take place in many other countries. Just to name a few: Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia, China, etc...
In the end, only a very few countries have a ban on such demonstrations. The US, of course, is the leader of the pack. Even though, the tradition of May Day for workers originated in the US decades ago... N'en déplaise à Mademoiselle Hénaff.

PS: je suis Franco-Américain et je déteste que l'on s'attaque à mes deux pays de façon injustifiée. Ce blog est à la fois une insulte pour le pays de ma mère et un honteux détournement de l'esprit qui a forgé le pays de mon père. Il y a des gens qui comme moi ont la double-nationalité, il faudrait que d'autres puissent recevoir la "neither-citizenship" car ils n'en méritent aucune.

Posted by: Louis at May 4, 2007 12:36 AM

In the end, only a very few countries have a ban on such demonstrations. The US, of course, is the leader of the pack.
Oh please. Louis you have been living too long under the thumb of politicians and have forgotten what freedom is really like. Probably this is why you march with signs of dead dictators from the past.
WE ARE GOVERNMENT of the people, not subjects of the government. Ban a march or political rally? Nonsense. Not that there will be many besides ignorant border jumpers who would celebrate Lenins birfday here - and what country besides mine has illegal alien marching for rights on a day such as this? (It would be as if Germans were marching in Paris to celebrate Hitler's birfday every year - You think Jaque would allow that?)
Even if there were such a ban, it would be treated as a suggestion, and then only until the court case was brought to expunge it from the record. We have a thing called the bill of rights.
The right to peacefully assemble and petition for redress of greivance, is built into the highest law of America.

Posted by: papertiger at May 4, 2007 02:23 AM

"In the end, only a very few countries have a ban on such demonstrations. The US, of course, is the leader of the pack."

What are you smoking, and why are you so selfish as not to share it? Demonstrate for or against whatever you like; we have no reason to prevent you from making an ass of yourself, especially if you do it in public and in front of a camera. Perhaps you were thinking of some workers' paradise established according to European theory and Asiatic practice?

Read this and tell me what parts you find confusing:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

This is the law. The volunteers from my own town rushed some 20 miles or so to establish it on a beautiful spring day in 1775 at Concord, Massachusetts. We stand ready to maintain it by whatever means may be necessary.

Posted by: Mitch at May 4, 2007 05:15 AM

Louis,

Amazing how some red flags got you and your French pals all excited.

(which happens to also be a brand of pork-and-sow paté)

So elegantly Fwench. The art of arguing, French style.

is that similar May 1 marches take place in many other countries.

Er, Labor days, yes. Hardliner communists hand in hand with terrorist organizations, I don't think so. For your information, The Tamil Tigers are considered by many countries, including the European Union, a terrorist organization. Have you had a look at picture #2? #3??

While some countries, such as Eastern Europe former slave States of the USSR try to get rid of communism - because they know how "socialism saved their world", just think currently Poland and Estonia - France is dreaming of a People's Republic.

Just to name a few: Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia, China, etc...

Pro-communist demonstrations in Poland? Are you kidding me? Get out of your cave. Oh yeah, no links, of course.
The only Western country (China is communist, fyi), I saw pictures of, with similar demonstrations with Lenin flags and so on, is Sweden.

In the end, only a very few countries have a ban on such demonstrations. The US, of course, is the leader of the pack. Even though, the tradition of May Day for workers originated in the US decades ago... N'en déplaise à Mademoiselle Hénaff.

Yeah right. No Labor Day in the U.S. Is it just about bashing the U.S. or is it pure ignorance? I thought you hold the American citizenship? That's a shame you know so little about one of your - cough - beloved home countries. But you don't seem to know much about anything you're talking about anyway.

PS: je suis Franco-Américain et je déteste que l'on s'attaque à mes deux pays de façon injustifiée. Ce blog est à la fois une insulte pour le pays de ma mère et un honteux détournement de l'esprit qui a forgé le pays de mon père.

So what? You want to ban the freedom of expression so representative of the United States, that you claim to be a citizen of? You want to forbid me to talk about the country where I was born, where I live, where I am getting f*ck*ng ripped off the money I earn in the name of communism, er, social justice? I'm paying for those idiots demonstrating in the streets in the name of serial murderers.

Il y a des gens qui comme moi ont la double-nationalité, il faudrait que d'autres puissent recevoir la "neither-citizenship" car ils n'en méritent aucune.

Oh yes, let me think for a moment... which regime stripped some of its citizens of their citizenship about 70 years ago, because they were supposed not to deserve it? Ah, yes, I remember. Okay, so where should I go next? In a concentration camp?

Posted by: Carine at May 4, 2007 10:44 AM

I never said there was no labor day in the US. Calm down, honey, you're turning Segolist. But I'm glad the comments criticizing mine have confirmed that France is no exception when it comes to demonstrations. The US allows it as well. You've undone your own point.
You ask where you should go next. I can't help you with that, since you seem to be the miserable kind who wouldn't be happy anywhere on this planet. Definitely, you should leave France, for you obviously don't love it. Dixit Sarkozy, your idol.
You pose as a triple idiot when you bitch about a place which you willingly choose to live in. You bitch about foreigners in France (like my father), and yet one of you describes herself as an American living in France. You ramble about the French being lazy, yet you find the time to blog BS on the web. Yet only a few bother to read your crap. If that ain't improductive...
All this makes a whole lot of sense. To cretins at least.

Lou -- who will no longer gratify you with visiting your largely ignored blog.

PS: I now live in Zürich. People were marching and chanting "Die Internationale" on Tuesday afternoon. In the very heart of a bastion of holy capitalism. You see, Mademoiselle Hénaff, the world is far more complex than you would like it to be.

PSS: 60 years ago, the US stripped its japanese immigrants of their citizenship (some'd been naturalized. Some were born in the US). They were duly sent to concentration camps. There was no resistance from the american people. A complex world, indeed...

Posted by: Louis at May 4, 2007 02:06 PM
60 years ago, the US stripped its japanese immigrants of their citizenship (some'd been naturalized. Some were born in the US). They were duly sent to concentration camps. There was no resistance from the american people. A complex world, indeed...

Can't you get your facts straight just once? No, of course, that's not facts you're after. No links, just insults and claims unfounded. No reaction to comments from real Americans about your nonsense. You just flip flop to use our answers to your advantage (which you missed to do anyway). But what else could you possibly do? A l'impossible nul n'est tenu.

You want me to stop posting about what is going on in France, that you claim is hatred? But yourself you stink of hatred for America, alleging just about anything about a country you pretend to be a citizen of and you pretend to defend against unjustified attacks. Who do you think you are fooling, kid?

Live with it: France is a communist country, yet some French are still willing to open their eyes and fight communism. Whether you like it or not, denying reality won't change it.

Europe has been the nest of totalitarianism during the 20th century. And it sure looks like it is again willing to try and commit suicide. The colors this time? What about an alliance red/green?

Whether I live in France or not is changing what exactly? I can't comment about France when I live in France, I won't be able to comment about France when I am not living here anymore, right?

Your problem here is with those pictures, not my taking them. Too bad for you. We're not in the USSR here. I won't shut up.

Yes, get out, you're not welcome here anymore.

Posted by: Carine at May 4, 2007 02:46 PM

Seems like we can't have a discussion about elections in France without digressing to writing only about the US. I'm not French, nor do I currently live in France, but I do live a part of the US that was formerly French terrirtory. I don't think that we are overly bitter about the colonial oppression. But we wonder why France seems to deny the whole thing ever existed.

Did any of the candidates talk about France's responcibilites toward their former colonial possessions? From my point of view it seems that there hasn't even been an attempt addressing the issue. Apart from building a few very rough roads that only SUV's could drive the French haven't shoen much in terms of outreach here. No colleges or universities, no schools, no hospitals, no civic improvements of any kind. On the whole, I must say that I find France's policies to be very dissapointing.

Posted by: Charles at May 4, 2007 08:25 PM

American citizens of Japanese descent living in the western half of California, Oregon, Washington state and a small portion of Utah were sent to camps for the duration of the war. But, their citizenship was not stripped from them. If they could find employment outside of the above mentioned area, they could leave the camps and many did. Hundreds of young people left the camps to attend university. And, of course, the a regiment was formed and fought in Italy.

My father trained against them at Camp Shelby. He liked them and said they were good troops. Americans of Japanese descent outside the forbidden area went about their business.

J. Edgar Hoover, of the FBI, was against the camps. It was liberals like FDR and Governor Earl Warren that sponsored the legislation. In 1947, Congress paid the internees for their losses,including lost crops. At least, get your facts straight, if not, your opinions.

Posted by: interventor at May 4, 2007 08:43 PM

PSS: 60 years ago, the US stripped its japanese immigrants of their citizenship (some'd been naturalized. Some were born in the US). They were duly sent to concentration camps. There was no resistance from the american people. A complex world, indeed...

Sixty years ago... hmmm. 2007 - 60 = 1947
Even your math is wrong.
The last of the War Relocation Authority camps closed on March 28, 1946.
It's kind of embarassing. Back in the thirties and fourties, America suffered through 20 years of socialist rule. Roosevelt was arresting GOP newsmen to keep the people stupid, and charging 100% tax on income over $50,000, to keep them poor, along with putting German, Italian, and Japanese, Americans in government built "Hoovervilles". Shit happens. It's why I don't vote Democrat.

No Japanese Americans were stripped of their citizenship in that year or any other year. I can't imagine there is even a mechanism for doing such a thing. Even for a rabid mad dog Demo President.

Posted by: Papertiger at May 4, 2007 09:01 PM
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