A time of war
Subversions - October 2015 - France
Pushing further on its warmongering path ( the military interventions in Central Africa , Mali and Syria are continuing ), the socialist government in power seized the occasion of the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercasher in January 2015 to decree that the whole of France should consider itself “ at war ”. This update of the war against internal enemies , in speech and in facts , has police and juridical consequences as for example the new law on the intelligence services extending the antiterrorism law that itself was reinforced only a few months ago . On top of the Vigie-Pirate plan comes now operation Sentinelle which added a strong touch of khaki in the militarisation of the spirits and the public space . The visible and continuous presence of soldiers no longer concerns only the public transport , but also each corner of the street . Mission and propaganda are going hand in hand .
In this context of “ protection of the national territory ”, the question of borders takes on a particular emphasis . The state needs to take measures to prevent some of leaving the territory ( to go fight in Syria for example ) and on the other hand the whole of Europe is busy managing the flux of migrants pressing at its gates . The sweet dream of migrations managed by the powerful ( one only has to think about the exodus of peasants towards the urban industrial camps , the import
of labour forces by recruiters in the colonies until the recent euphemism of “ chosen ” immigration ) to keep the capitalist machine running has been surpassed by movements of hundreds of thousands of people . These exodus are certainly caused by the advance of the capitalist steamroller and the devastation it causes ( environmental disasters , wars ,...), but they are also much more uncontrolled and therefore problematic . More or less voluntary exiles have breached the borders , often attacking the border guards , and sowing a great deal of disorder in the European border system . Now the European states are doing everything to get things back under control by erecting new walls of barbed wire , between Hungary and Serbia , then Croatia , and recently also between two Schengen countries : Slovenia and Austria . The loans and troop reinforcements issued to the first country and the deployment of the army in the second country recall once again to which point borders are also part of the military domain .
If the migrants are modifying their trajectories depending on the new obstacles that are put in their way , the states from their sides are redeploying their border arsenal . Subcontracting the dirty jobs is a habit of the EU , so negotiations are ongoing with countries that might serve as “ buffer zones ” ( the agreement with Turkey plans the creation of 6 registration centres and the reinforcement
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