THE BEAUTIFUL RAILWAYMAN' S NAME
Translated from French: original article written by
Régis De Castelnau
http://www.vududroit.com/2018/02/beau-nom-de-cheminot/
Emmanuel Macron benefited from special circumstances to come to power. Thanks to a judicial operation he probably commissioned, he got rid of his main opponent in the presidential elections. This kind of coup precipitated the collapse of the political system of a gangrenous 5th Republic. This made it possible for him to govern by relying on four or five people, in a direct relationship with the CAC 40 and the great Capital of which he assumed very well to be the servant. With the help of high-ranking civil service members, he is thus able to implement the roadmap desired by German Europe. After destroying the century-old work of the Labour Code, he is tasked, in the context of the dear "free and undistorted competition" of blind Europhiles, with completing the destruction of our rail system which had already been started by the Socialists. As usual, a report was produced by a recurrent offender of the dismantling of public services, in order to impose the indispensable nature of the disappearance of the SNCF. As we still use the usual crass populism to set rail workers against other population groups. The most pernicious opportunity was to contrast their status with that of farmers. Lest the railway workers be responsible for all our misfortunes.
And that's where it becomes a problem for me. In my childhood, the train and those who operated the engine enjoyed great prestige. They were a kind of working class aristocracy, competent, rigorous and dedicated, indispensable to the nation. In our country they were recognized as such, especially since under extreme conditions they had paid a heavy price. The 3,000 railwaymen shot, members of the "Iron Resistance" network, might have been communists, yet for my father they were brothers in arms. I saw the last steam locomotives, sublime symbols of the industrial revolution, the red and white michelines that flowed right through my country all the way to its corners. I knew France where there were railway stations everywhere and where the station master of each station was an important figure. Even though, and this was a sign of it, we sometimes laughed at his conjugal misfortunes. Things have changed, but this national monument is still present. I keep this particular tenderness for the trains, for those who drove them, and maintained them. I feel at home in the TGV, which I often use as in michelines or fast trains with compartments or 'coral' carriages. The stations are always magical places, the light and smells are the same as in the previous world. And those who claim otherwise are liars. When today I take the TGV to Avignon, and I see 2:40 later, American or Japanese foreigners coming out to enter into the summer of Provence, I still have this small feeling of pride for what my country is able to show them. And then I want us to continue to provide a rail service, to prevent them from dying, for all these towns and small towns, these Vallon en Sully, these Cerans Foulletourte, these Villedieu les Poëles. For the latter, if only in honour of Jean Devé, an activist union activist, station master at Villedieu, a brilliant mechanic of the Bren Carriers tracked vehicles, killed by the enemy at Bir Hakeim on 10 June 1942, made a Companion of the Liberation. You see, Mr Macron, on that day France was not in Vichy as you claim, but in the Lybian desert. Incarnated by a railwayman who gave him his life.
Selling Alstom to the Americans and Germans, that's a done deal. Soon throwing Airbus to the same people, that's in progress. The rest is as well.
So today, in order to better carry out the orders of this German Europe, and open up rail transport to competition with the consequence that we imagine too well, that is to say the disappearance of a public service rail transport, our controlled elites want to destroy the SNCF? While it is of course an essential economic tool for public services that we need, it is also a historical and cultural heritage.
Well, that's a no.
Comrades railwaymen, your fight will not only be for your professional, categorical or personal interests, however legitimate they may be. It will also and above all be the duty to keep our country a valuable asset. There are times when each person in his or her own place is the bearer of our national interest." The one who is chosen must walk,"Péguy said. You will of course have in front of you the servile media element that will insult you and accuse you of taking the users as hostages. You'll get phony polls, caste arrogance and yellow union capitulations. Don't be intimidated.
Whatever forms of struggle you choose, we will support you and remember that the only fights you lose are those you refuse to fight.