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The French army’s coup plots and the global onslaught on democratic rights This year the day of international working class solidarity comes amid a deepening threat of far-right dictatorship. In the week before May Day, a political crisis has mounted in France over a letter by 23 retired or reservist generals in the neofascist magazine Current Values advocating a coup. Even as the defense ministry threatens to prosecute officers supporting the letter, growing numbers of officers are signing it—now over 7,000. These statements must be taken as a warning to workers not only in France but i...

Share 'These general officers will each pass before a higher military council. At the end of this procedure, it is the President of the Republic who signs a decree expelling them'. The 18 serving officers joined thousands of retired ones who had signed an open letter warning that France was heading for 'civil war' because of radical Islam. It said action was needed to fight the 'suburban hordes' - a reference to the predominantly immigrant population of the housing estates which surround French cities – or else there would be 'thousands of deaths'. President Macron's government strongly con...

Share 'These general officers will each pass before a higher military council. At the end of this procedure, it is the President of the Republic who signs a decree expelling them'. The 18 serving officers joined thousands of retired ones who had signed an open letter warning that France was heading for 'civil war' because of radical Islam. It said action was needed to fight the 'suburban hordes' - a reference to the predominantly immigrant population of the housing estates which surround French cities – or else there would be 'thousands of deaths'. President Macron's government strongly con...

France's Armed Forces minister reacted with fury tonight after hundreds of retired soldiers pledged to support Marine Le Pen in the fight against 'the disintegration' of their country and the threat of 'civil war'. Florence Parly said a coalition between politicised former military personnel and the far-Right presidential candidate would be an outrage. Ms Parly was particularly concerned about an open letter in the latest edition of Valeurs Actuelles (Current Values) magazine, in which ex-generals are among those calling for a clampdown on 'Islamism and the suburban hordes.' Florence Parly, p...

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104261082723065-french-defence-minister-slams-marine-le-pen-for-hailing-retired-soldiers-anti-islamism-drive-/ In an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron late last week, former French military personnel urged him to act against the looming dangers of religious extremism in France in order to avoid a civil war scenario in the future. French Defence Minister Florence Parly has slammed Marine Le Pen, head of the French political party National Rally, for her readiness to support hundreds of the country's retired soldiers' drive to tackle an alleged threat of...