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Back to 2010 and Happy New Year 2011!

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year 2010 that ending was rough with the result of "reforms" concocted by the president and his parliamentary majority.

Never has a president been so unpopular and mired in such scandals: the case of Karachi with his stunning revelations, the possible tax evasion in several tax havens by Liliane Bettencourt, aided by his Management nary property, the wife of Eric Woerth, the 12 000 € cigars in six months, Christian Blanc and many other cases like the last one, that the pick ...

The pick, this drug ineffective and dangerous, would have killed over 500 people and ruined the thousands of others. G Bapt Erard, Socialist deputy, remembered, rightly, the ties between the president and founder of the Laboratory Servier, manufacturer of the Mediator.

The president wants to make a "transparency" in this folder! But it will probably be very vigilant when you know the links with Mr Sarkozy's Servier, whom he recently handed the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and he did return as a customer in the law firm where he worked ...

And it would be natural now to puncture small personal savings of the owner of this laboratory to repair the damage. The cost of reimbursement by social security of this appetite suppressant sold as antidiabetic and cost of care he would have incurred would amount to around 2 billion euros! This would never do that little half or a third of the 5 6 billion of personal fortune accumulated by Jacques Servier, a member of the First Circle of donors to the UMP!

Never in the history of the Fifth Republic, a government has tried to impose such social regression as the decline of the legal age of retirement and increasing the contribution period to 41 , 5 installments for a full pension. Side and purchasing power for the fifth consecutive year, the minimum wage will not benefit on 1 January 2011 of a boost!

Never before in history of that republic, a minister of the interior, meant to lead by example, has been condemned repeatedly by the courts and made as many balls as the latest. While the sky Ile handles large flakes, Brice Hortefeux is adamant "There's no mess.". Meanwhile, the caps are formed on some roads and motorists are preparing to sleep in gymnasiums and shopping malls! When there is an inch of snow it will, is when there are problems that many ...

Unfortunately, opposition side, things are little more exciting. The PS has not been a major contribution to the fate of the proposed pension reform. Never, he has served as a relay to mobilize the media and the street ... And for good reason! The "cons-project" socialist Martine Aubry does it not also 41.5 years of contributions for a full pension?

trade union side is much better. Denial of a more assertive confrontation with power, both in the type of mobilization chosen (repeated mobilization days too spaced in time and no clear call a strike interprofessional even 24 hours) than in the contents of the claims (the CFDT is general agreement with the proposed lengthening the period of contributions under the watchful eye of the national secretary of the CGT ...) the train train demos spring and fall eventually lead to anything. The millions of employees who have generously participated in these actions, especially those who have been in isolation for long strikes remain bitter and retain especially having lost money for little results ...

The year 2011 promises to be also very policy. It will mark the beginning of the presidential campaign for the French political class and the head of state in particular. The designation of PS candidate remains subject to primary unknown if this will be a success in mobilizing voters on the left. Dominique Strauss Kahn, IMF chief, an organization that has ruined so many countries, there will be the Socialist candidate in 2012? Recent comments clumsy Martine Aubry on the "pact" between three prominent Socialists do not they will eventually turn against the initiators of the primary?

The latest find potential candidates socialists is to provide a winning ticket the first president Minister with actors whose roles seem reversed: DSK Premier Laurent Fabius and Ségolène Royal Premier Manuel Valls. This is a bit of bad joke ...

But that rigor is very slightly softer with DSK with Nicolas Sarkozy as president, it will not change much about the financial difficulties of the vast majority of employees. Over 8 million people live below the poverty line on less than 950 euros per month, more than 3 million workers are paid minimum wage (1343 € gross, which equals on average to 1055 € net, barely a little above the poverty line) and 30% full-time employees (excluding temporary) receive a salary less than 1.3 SMIC (1745 € gross, which is on average less than 1,370 € net).

resistance to oppression is an inalienable right for employees because it is indeed an oppression "systematic mistreatment of a social group with the support of the oppressive structures of society" according Wikipedia. The "systematic abuse" are the reforms that are sarkozystes whenever social regression. The oppressed social group, it is the employees who have only labor power to sell. Oppressive society, they are the haves who do not get enough. Structure, the state Sarkozyist.

Giving prospects for credible action across the world of work require the left finally brings serious answers to the crisis of capitalism and social catastrophe, ecological and democratic it results are what one could wish for the political year ahead.

A one and all, receive my best wishes 2011.

May this new year bring you happiness and is full of hope, solidarity and peace!

And a big thank you for your loyalty to this blog.

Albert blogmestre

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