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By Michael Howie
Published: 11:01AM BST 21 Aug 2010

Beaches along the English Channel have been reopened to swimmers amid reports that a suspected crocodile sighted close to busy beaches was in fact a piece of wood.
The alarm was raised after French authorities received reports of a 12 foot long reptile apparently seen swimming around sailing boats in the French port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by two local men on Thursday.
A local newspaper said further warnings were later received from other eye witnesses.

But on Saturday morning it was reported that the French Coastguard had confirmed the crocodile sightings had in fact been sparked by a floating piece of wood.
BBC Radio 4's Today programme said it had been told "the alert was lifted when officials said it was a piece of wood".
With thousands descending on the beaches during the Channel's high season, local officials said they decided to ban swimming just in case.
Police and fire brigade officials supported by the army carried out a wide-ranging search, broadcasting warnings in English and French to holidaymakers.
A search of nearby zoos and amphibian centres for a missing crocodile was also launched. The elusive reptile was even dubbed Croc Monsieur after the French ham and cheese toastie.
Wild crocodiles can grow to 25ft long and swim hundreds of miles.
Jeremie Marion, spokesman for the Opale animal welfare agency which coordinated the search, said that if a crocodile was in the English Channel it would be in great discomfort and therefore extremely dangerous.
He added: "If there was a crocodile in the area he would not live for long, because an animal with cold blood needs a temperature of around 30 degrees."
Earlier in the week beaches were shut in the south of France following a shark alert, but the creature turned out to be a dolphin.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7957653/Crocodile-sighted-in-English-channel-revealed-to-be-drift-wood.html

A French guide to beachcombers: That's no crocodile, Monsieur. It's just a lump of wood

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1305138/Thats-crocodile-Monsieur--Its-just-lump-wood.html#ixzz0xLOEnhDp

Lurking menacingly in the murky waters of the English Channel, it is no wonder the sinister form sent the French authorities into a panic after reports of a crocodile on the loose.
But this was one case where the creature’s bark really was worse than its bite.
For when coastguards finally surrounded their ‘prey’ yesterday after a full-scale alert they were forced to admit that it was in fact a harmless lump of driftwood.
Soldiers, police and firefighters had been drafted in, beaches closed and swimming banned following the sighting close to the port of Boulogne on Thursday.
But yesterday a clearly irritated Boulogne council spokesman said: ‘It is easy to be clever with hindsight. It’s not every day you get a crocodile alert, so we had to be very careful. Perhaps too careful.’
The alarm was raised when two men, identified only as Pierre and Laurent, said they saw the giant ‘beast’ circling sailing boats


Lurking menacingly in the murky waters of the English Channel, it is no wonder the sinister form sent the French authorities into a panic after reports of a crocodile on the loose.
But this was one case where the creature’s bark really was worse than its bite.
For when coastguards finally surrounded their ‘prey’ yesterday after a full-scale alert they were forced to admit that it was in fact a harmless lump of driftwood.
Soldiers, police and firefighters had been drafted in, beaches closed and swimming banned following the sighting close to the port of Boulogne on Thursday.
But yesterday a clearly irritated Boulogne council spokesman said: ‘It is easy to be clever with hindsight. It’s not every day you get a crocodile alert, so we had to be very careful. Perhaps too careful.’
The alarm was raised when two men, identified only as Pierre and Laurent, said they saw the giant ‘beast’ circling sailing boats


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1305138/Thats-crocodile-Monsieur--Its-just-lump-wood.html#ixzz0xLOOGST6




The council official said: ‘Swimming was banned just in case. All local zoos and amphibian centres were investigated to see if any crocodiles were missing.’
None had escaped, of course, and yesterday the same spokesman reluctantly admitted that the whole thing had been a false alarm.
He added: ‘People probably saw a large piece of driftwood and mistook it for a crocodile. This kind of thing can happen.’
Others were more cynical. British holidaymaker Keith Jackson, from South London, said: ‘It must have been a hoax, but you can always rely on the French to over-react to the slightest hint of danger.’
Genevieve Martin, a French cafe owner, was even more to the point. Referring to one of her most popular dishes, she said: ‘I think the whole thing was a load of croc, Monsieur.’


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1305138/Thats-crocodile-Monsieur--Its-just-lump-wood.html

shame it turned out to be a log.
Our French cousins have missed out on a meal as they are renowned for eating anything that moves.
If they had caught a croc no doubt it would have been on the local menu by lunchtime!!

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France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) is preparing closer ties with the Party (PS), the country’s bourgeois “left” party of rule, with a view to participating in government. This policy, signaled by rising dissension inside the NPA after its poor showing in the March regional elections, received official confirmation in a July 1 interview by NPA leader Alain Krivine.

Speaking of the PS to the newspaper Le Bien Public, Krivine noted that “as to governing France with [the Socialists],” he was not sure, but “if there is an agreement that unites the left, it might be possible.” He explained, “We must first force all the political and trade union left to work together against Sarkozy’s policy. And we’re starting to get there.”

With this policy, the NPA is seeking to lay the political basis for a betrayal of the working class.

As Krivine is well aware, the PS would return to power on a platform of massive social cuts directed against the population. In response to the European economic crisis, ruling social democratic parties, such as PASOK in Greece and the PSOE in Spain, have attacked jobs, wages, pensions, and labor regulations. The PS assisted in this assault by voting to fund France’s portion of the €750 European bailout package, which imposed massive cuts on Greek workers in exchange for bailing out major banks holding Greek debt.

Such policies emerge from the previous betrayals of the working class by the PS. President François Mitterrand’s so-called “austerity turn” devastated workers’ living standards, particularly in mining and steel communities in the 1980s. From 1997-2002 Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin carried out a massive privatization program.

Krivine does not see this legacy as precluding a political alliance with the social democrats. “We have seen what the PS has done in Greece, in Portugal, in Spain, and in France,” he said. “We are willing to struggle with them against [conservative President Nicolas] Sarkozy, to the extent that they agree.”

The interview comes amid a bitter debate inside the European ruling classes, as each government seeks to restore the competitiveness of its national economy by imposing austerity measures. British Prime Minister David Cameron is setting the tone, demanding cuts in government budgets of 25 to 40 percent. These policies were recently ratified by the June G20 financial summit, which issued a communiqué calling for global spending reductions.

In France, sections of the political establishment could consider replacing the current conservative government with the social democrats, in an attempt to replicate the enormous cuts enacted by their Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese counterparts. Sarkozy, already unpopular, has been deeply implicated in the recent tax-evasion scandal of billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, which has intensified already profound public hostility to further social cuts. There are rising expectations of strikes and protests in the fall.

The NPA’s reaction, in such a climate, is to move into closer alliance with the establishment. The NPA is deepening its public ties to the PS and promoting illusions that the PS and its allied parties, Ecologie (EE) and the Communist Party (PCF), can be pressured into adopting progressive policies through trade union protests or political deals.

This orientation was implicit in the Feburary 2009 founding of the NPA by the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR), which was based on a rejection of the idea that the working class is the leading political force in the fight against capitalism and of any residual verbal association with Trotskyism.

The NPA leadership’s decision earlier this year to run a campaign independent from the PCF-dominated Left Front in the March 2010 regional elections was bitterly contested inside the party. In January Leila Chaibi, the head of an NPA faction that organizes “protest” shoplifting in grocery stores, said, “The choice of going it alone in the regional elections is for me the expression of the failure of the NPA project.”

After the March elections, in which the PS won all but one of metropolitan France’s 22 regions thanks to popular anger over Sarkozy’s policies, there were growing calls inside the NPA for collaboration with government parties. Raoul-Marc Jennar, an anti-globalization activist and one of the founders of the NPA, denounced the NPA’s “sectarianism” in an April 9 Libération interview. He explained that he favored “confluences” with the EE and other environmentalist groups, and announced his resignation.

As shown by Krivine’s interview in Le Bien Public, the existing NPA leadership agrees with the need to work with the PS or its satellite parties, though for the time being they prefer to adopt a falsely independent stance.

NPA spokesman Olivier Besancenot shares this position. He welcomes PS members onto public platforms, with the fraudulent claim that the PS is fighting President Sarkozy’s pension cuts. Speaking on June 14 in Rouen, alongside Guillaume Bachelay of the PS and Jacky Hénin of the PCF, Besancenot said: “Today, we are hitting the same nail on the head….and the mayonnaise is beginning to gel,” (a French expression indicating all the groups are starting to work together as a coherent whole).

As Krivine’s comments on the social democrats’ policies in Greece and Spain show, such bravado from the NPA leadership amounts to a conscious betrayal of the working class and all those who mistakenly look to the NPA as some sort of genuine opposition movement. The NPA leadership is well aware of the right-wing character of the PS and similar parties throughout Europe. Its aim is to foster the conception that, with enough pressure from below, the PS can be made to adopt policies less harmful than Sarkozy’s.

This illusion, which is immensely valuable to the French bourgeoisie, is maintained by cynical operators like Krivine. He told Le Bien Public that he did not currently have plans to go into a PS government because “that discredits the left.” By this, Krivine means that immediate participation in a right-wing PS government would threaten to expose the entire “left” political establishment, from the NPA to the PS.

This was the experience in Italy, where Krivine’s Italian co-thinkers in Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista—RC) participated in the 2006-2008 Prodi government, which cut pensions and continued Italian participation in the Afghan war. Subsequently, RC’s vote in the Italian parliament collapsed.

For the moment, the NPA intends to corral growing opposition to the government using other well-worn methods. Referring to youth protests in 2006 sparked by the government’s proposal to slash job protections for young people in the form of the First Job Contract (CPE), Krivine stated, “[A]t the NPA, in September, we are starting a general strike movement, just as the youth did with the CPE.” Krivine declared it is his intention to make the government “retreat” from its proposed austerity measures, similar to the Villepin government’s partial retraction of the CPE in 2006.

Krivine’s analogy, however, rests on a false presentation of what actually happened at that time. The anti-CPE protest movement was sold out by the unions and the “left,” in exchange for a partial pullback by the government. Sections of the unions acted directly in concert with Sarkozy, who used then-Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s defeat to promote his own 2007 presidential campaign. This maneuver gave Sarkozy a false populist gloss, which he exploited to move against the workers, slashing pensions and labor laws, in the early period of his presidency.

That Krivine would promote such an example underlines the treacherous, anti-working class character of the NPA’s policies.

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On July 22, after three days of closed-door debates, the French parliamentary social affairs committee—comprised of members from all parties—approved unpopular planned pension cuts. They will go to a vote in the National Assembly in early September.


The close-door session took place in the midst of a scandal involving France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt. While preparing massive social cuts against the workers, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Labour Minister Eric Woerth were allegedly obtaining illegal campaign funding from Bettencourt and arranging gigantic tax refunds for her. The parliamentary session began with a presentation of the bill by Eric Woerth, who declared that he was capable of carrying the reform through the parliamentary debate process despite the scandal. He ruled out any changes to the key measures of the reform. The reform raises the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, increases the pay-in period from 40 to 41.5 years, and raises civil servants’ pension contributions to the level of those required in the private sector. Some 400 amendments were submitted to the social affairs committee, of which 90 percent were not adopted.

The government said the measure concerning workers in arduous work, who can retire at 60, would be examined in September after consultation with unions and employers. In order to benefit from it, according to the bill, a worker must prove he has “a rate of incapacitation equal to or larger than 20 percent, having given rise to a payment for work-related injury or accidents, which will be evaluated by a medical visit.” Medical experts are already criticizing these proposals. Le Monde cited a comment by François Guillon, a professor of medicine and labour health at Bobigny, who said that this rate “has no medical, social, or professional pertinence.”

He suggested that the government’s reform threatened to largely eliminate early retirement due to disability, commenting, “For muscular-skeletal problems, the most frequent professional ailments, average permanent incapacitation goes above 15 percent only among 1 percent of patients. For work accidents, the highest average incapacitation is in the construction industry and only reaches 12 percent.” The pension cut is part of a raft of government austerity measures designed to slash public spending by €100 billion to bring France’s public deficit down to the European limit of 3 percent from 8 percent by 2013. Combined with other planned pension cuts, the government noted that raising the retirement age will allow them to save €19 billion by 2018.

While preparing massive social austerity policies to dismantle the living standards of the working class, the political establishment continuously defends the financial aristocracy, who are benefiting massively from the government’s tax concessions to their wealth.

In the recent France 2 TV interview, President Sarkozy defended his tax policy for the wealthy by asserting that the “tax shield” is necessary to preserve super-rich wealth in France. The tax shield is a tax concession for high-income earners. According to the weekly satirical Le Canard Enchaîné, Bettencourt received about €100 million in tax refunds under the tax shield over four years. According to an April report in Le Figaro, “The 4,521 households with a net worth of over €7.3 million and yearly revenues of over €43,761 received 90.4 percent of the funds reimbursed by the state under the tax shield provisions. These sums amounted to €585.6 million in 2009. These wealthy taxpayers received on average a check for €117,142.”


Under these conditions, the closed-door debates at the National Assembly are an unstated admission by the French political elite of its contempt for the working population, and the breakdown of democracy. A recent BVA poll found 56 percent of the population hostile to the pension reforms, and 67 percent opposed to the government’s economic policy. The response of the National Assembly is to hide behind closed doors and ram through bitterly anti-working class policies in the face of mass opposition. The anti-democratic character of the procedure attracted commentary even from within the political establishment. Despite fully supporting the pension reform, deputy Lionel Tardy of the ruling conservative UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) said the closed-door debate was outrageous.

He said, “Imagine, to push the reasoning to the extreme, that commission members decide, all of a sudden, to increase the legal retirement age from 62 to 63 years. Well, this decision would be taken suddenly on the sly. And with the new rules, it would not even be re-examined in the full assembly.” This situation is only possible because the working class is politically strangled by the trade unions and the unions’ defenders amongst the petty-bourgeois ex-left, such as the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA).

The unions are well aware that social opposition to the government’s austerity policies are growing and must be stifled if the financial aristocracy is to avoid a political explosion. While occasionally making empty criticisms, the unions have negotiated with the government to impose the cuts, as they have done during previous pension “reforms.” Notably, these included the gutting of rail workers’ pensions and the end of the 35-hour workweek in 2008, which the CGT was instrumental in negotiating and passing. On July 11, CGT (General Confederation of Labour) leader Bernard Thibault gave an interview to the online publication Mediapart, saying, “The executive will have to move on the pensions, or we will have a major social crisis during the autumn.” Coming from Thibault, this warning has the character not of an attempt to rally working class opposition to an unpopular and discredited government, but of advice given to Sarkozy on how to prevent workers from getting out of the political establishment’s control.


Since the Bettencourt-Woerth scandal broke out, Sarkozy’s ruling party has faced an acute crisis. As Sarkozy explained in his recent television interview, however, the government has great confidence it will be able to carry out its cuts, as the trade unions have “responsible,” that is pro-government, policies. The unions, the Parti Socialiste (PS) and pseudo-left organisations like the NPA are helping the government to stifle working class opposition to social austerity measures. When asked whether the CGT is benefiting from current political crisis, Thibault responded, “We are not profiting from it at all.”

Thibault does not welcome, but rather dreads, the exposure of the class character of the Sarkozy regime and of French bourgeois “democracy.” This is because the CGT and other forces that currently control anti-austerity protests oppose the mobilization of the working class in a political struggle against the government and its cuts. In fact, the French ruling elite rely on the trade unions’ assistance to disorient the working class, providing a semblance of opposition by calling impotent one-day strikes while on the other hand helping the government to push through its cuts.


Having called one-day protests on May 27 and June 24, the unions have called for yet another one-day protest on September 7, when the bill will be examined in parliament. As during the imposition of previous austerity measures, such actions will do nothing to dissuade the government from carrying out savage cuts.

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