This Wednesday, October 13, more than fifty people – students as well as workers – gathered at the Zig Zag bar in Bordeaux for the presentation of Anasse Kazib’s candidacy for the 2022 presidential elections and the launch of support committees for the countryside over the city. A first deadline presented by two activists of the Permanent Revolution, Marie Laure Charchar, laundromat and CGT general secretary of the Laundry of the CHU Haut Lévêque, and Petra Bernus, student and activist at Le Poing Levé. A success that calls for others.

By way of introduction, Petra, activist at Permanent Revolution and former spokesperson for the Bordeaux en Luttes pour les municipaux list, discusses the foundations of Anasse Kazib’s candidacy for the presidential elections. She opens the evening by recalling that: ” we are in the context of an offensive launched by the government for a year which is today the bedrock of the rise of the extreme right and in particular the emergence of nauseating speeches like that of Zemmour. “More officially, this is reflected in the repressive and racist policy of the prefecture, which does not hesitate to put on the streets and expel from their place of life, refugees, families and unaccompanied minors.

” Faced with Zemmour and company, the candidacy of Anasse is for us that of the anti-Zemmour. Faced with the umpteenth candidate for wealth, financed by the bourgeoisie and the neoliberal economic program, we want to defend the candidacy of a worker, a railway worker, who works at night, knows what the high cost of living is and who, moreover, is of immigrant origin and lives in working-class neighborhoods in a country with a colonial past and present. “

While recalling the complicity of the EELV city hall of Bordeaux in the anti-migration and racist policy of the prefecture, Petra recalls that in this nauseating context, “ the institutional left is engulfed in the reactionary field by participating in the demonstration of the police officers, by setting up the camps of repression, the increase of the repressive arsenal or even by proposing or by supporting racist and security policies particularly in terms of immigration. “

Marie-Laure Charchar is also present at the podium to present the candidacy of Anasse Kazib. A candidacy carried by the workers, in the face of contempt and against the life that the dominant caste wants to impose on us, made up of misery, of living conditions degraded by successive employer and government attacks: ” We are called the people from below but we are not, we are workers who make the country go round, if we weren’t there, nothing would work “

On the front line in the face of Covid-19 during the health crisis at CHU Haut-Lévêque, Marie-Laure, hospital worker and mother of two children said: ” The Anasse 2022 campaign embodies the reality of my daily life. In the midst of the Covid crisis, hospital workers, after being named heroes of the nation, have just received contempt from the government, which even criminalizes them, by suspending unvaccinated caregivers when there is already a dearth of staff. Very heavy schedules, which make family life difficult to keep two children, with my husband who is a railway worker. “

Combative trade unionist, she is part of this new generation of workers who emerged in the last mobilizations, and who are now raising their heads alongside her colleagues: ” When we refused to be silent, the government and hospital management sought to muzzle us: we fought to obtain masks during the first confinement, then news against the management who sought to oust me by the union repression “

If she calls today to support the campaign of Anasse Kazib, it is precisely to carry all these struggles, to highlight the essential role of invisible daily workers: ” Today what we want to carry with Anasse is our struggles, against the contempt and attacks of this government and all those who came before it, and to wear what we, workers who make society run , let’s live every day in this infernal capitalist society which only promises us difficult working conditions, poverty, unemployment…. “

But to bring this candidacy to the presidential elections, the difficulties are multiple: as explained by Petra, the mechanisms of the regime of the Fifth Republic are undemocratic and are made to prevent small candidates from running. It takes 500 sponsorships of elected officials, distributed in 30 different departments, and this is why the militants of the Permanent Revolution have been traveling the roads of France for several months to meet the mayors of small towns. This task is all the more difficult given that there is an enormous imbalance in terms of resources between the candidates: “we do not have the same resources as the major parties, for us the campaign is an enormous financial commitment and it is a all the more reason why we need strength, because we know that we cannot do it on our own. »Explains Marie-Laure. She adds ” Hence the importance of support committees and the commitment and participation of all and the participation of all and to ensure that all of us are there during debates with professional politicians who know nothing about our business. everyday life . “

This first meeting in Bordeaux, which was followed by a debate, made it possible to lay the groundwork for the new campaign support committees. If there are already in high schools and in universities, it is a question of extending and multiplying, because to impose Anasse to the Presidential, it will take a great resolution to break the anti-democratic obstacles. As of the coming week, we are organizing a support committee on Monday, October 18: if you want to participate, contact us on the networks! It will be an opportunity to think about and prepare the campaign, wherever we are, in the workplaces, in our studies and in our neighborhoods, and to prepare the date of the next meeting in Bordeaux where Anasse will be present, on November 24 at Sciences Po.