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With 'Merci Patron' the worker wipes the boss for once

  • When Socialdemocracy works with François Hollande to organise the workers the biggest cut in the rights of the hundred years, a simple documentary film produced by a small weekly has shaken the class struggle in France. The class struggle, yes, the poor against the rich, no less, but this time the poor has defeated the richest of the rich.
‘Merci Patron!‘ filmetik ateratako fotograman, ezkerrean telefonoz hizketan François Ruffin kazetaria, aurrean dauzkala Jocelyne eta Serge Klur senar-emazte langabetuak. Dokumentalak bildu ditu hirurok, ‘Fakir’ aldizkariarekin eta oihalgintzatik kanporatu
‘Merci Patron!‘ filmetik ateratako fotograman, ezkerrean telefonoz hizketan François Ruffin kazetaria, aurrean dauzkala Jocelyne eta Serge Klur senar-emazte langabetuak. Dokumentalak bildu ditu hirurok, ‘Fakir’ aldizkariarekin eta oihalgintzatik kanporatutako langile militanteekin elkarlanean, Bernard Arnault oligarkari egindako xantaia eta iseka. Film lotsagabeak erakusten du Louis Vuitton, Moët-Chandon, Kenzo eta beste hainbat luxuzko konpainiaren jabe den Arnaulten aberastasunen jatorri iluna eta obreroekin darabilen jokabide errukigabea.

Can the journalist François Ruffin be the new Pablo Iglesias of France? Based on Fakir magazine, no bigger than ARGIA, Merci Patron! With the film, it's given the greatest tunda in history to an oligarchy commanded by all. When social democracy is prepared with the help of François Hollande and Manuel Valls, it is the biggest centenary setback of workers’ rights.

The L’Autre Cinema room in Baiona welcomes Merci Patron until 21 March! It is not certain that we can see it in Spanish. In Euskera I'm sure not. Eight Basque surnames was a sequel of Welcome to the north and Chomin del Regato, set in the same France of the Belgian border. Will the oligarchies in Madrid and Bilbao conceal the Spanish Basques?

Look. Serge and Jocelyne Klur live in misery. In the company Ecce of the LVMH group – Louis Vuitton, Dior...–, the most vigorous luxury company in the world, they were sewing the garments of the brand Kenzo until they were released into unemployment: their pattern delocalized production to Poland.

They have been out of work for four years. They have been exhausted from unemployment benefit. Spend the month with 400 euros. Winter is prolonged without heating. Looking for work? Yes, when they have between EUR 5 and 10 to pay for petrol they will be given a curfew. “Living with three euros a day doesn’t seem easy, how do you get it?” “Sometimes without eating. We celebrated Christmas with a cheese cake.” The Klurtarras do not seek mercy, but do not hide their condition as poor.

François Ruffin finds them through a CGT militant. Bernard Arnault, the richest man in France, has been investigating and chasing the owner of LVMH for some time. Ruffin speaks in a language full of sarcasm rather than irony: that he wants peace between rich and workers, that dialogue between classes, that he cannot believe that Arnault is as ruthless as they say...

A surprise when they are recording a documentary about Arnault: in addition to being in misery, the Klatur has been forced to leave their homes. The vehicle in which they traveled uninsured has collided with a large 4x4 and the court has imposed compensation of EUR 25,000. Have you lost the house?

Serge doesn't get into his head. A humble cold house, fruit of the work of all life, restored by their own hands, a vegetable garden that gives them food in daily meals... He will set him on fire before losing the house and there will be no one else.

“There is no more local history, but no more global than that of the Klur family, says leftist economist Frederic Lordon. The clerics summarize almost the entire system.” From there, Ruffin and the Fakir team have not begun to explain how neoliberalism treats workers in the line of pedagogy and analysis, as others have done. Merci Patron! is classified with difficulty. Frederic Lordon says that “a film d’action directe”. In La Vanguardia Rafael Poch calls it “a gamberra movie.”

Rufian knows something about direct action. To denounce Arnault’s lies, in addition to publishing articles and books, he became a shareholder of LVMH along with many of the employees that he had left unemployed and in 2008 exploited the so-called shareholders’ meeting. Merci Patron! the film also goes beyond the denunciation: To respond to the grave situation of the Klur family, the richest man in France is blackmailed. A clear blackmail that you will see from the chair with your own eyes. But what revenge!

Most of all, don't tell the Fakir

The beginning of the fortune of Bernard Arnault is linked to the misfortune of Boussac and thousands of families from the departments of Picardie, Pas de Calais and Nord in general. In 1984 he bought his own fabrics, 13,000-15,000 workers, fired 20% and ordered to save others… and then relocate everything.

Dior was the only one in the whole company who was interested in buying it, had the rest of the industry in disuse and liquidated it. But 30 years later almost nobody remembers it, the young people condemned to total precariousness in the Boussac itself know nothing about the massacre.

In recent years, Arnault has succeeded in getting nowhere to mention the disaster of the Boussac Saint Freres, unemployment, redundancies, suicides, misery... or, as it were, transfigured by euphemisms. He has created his own story – a famous story – with books, interviews and reports written by purchased journalists.

When Arnault managed to cover the “original sin”. Ruffin has found the last witness who has guarded the memory of the crime, trade unionist moja Catherine Thierry, in the press pages saved in those years, is how they ransacked Saint Freres, failed the subsidies to save him, forgot the promises to keep the jobs…

Ez joan Merci Patron! Sad about the history of neoliberalism in these 30 years: it is about giving experience to the most insolent of the oligarchs. Red boyfriend Catherine is still angry with Arnault. However, Ruffin-David wants to laugh at Goliath, ridicule her, fascinate her... and take away 45,000 euros.

They'll write a letter to the skipper: we're in trouble, we're about to commit a barbarity, but you can help us with 45,000 and Serge by giving us a seat on one of your many companies. A small gesture for you, a change for us of life or death. If not, we should turn to the press to explain our misery, Le Monde, Mediapart, Fakir...

Even though belief works, the trap will work. The oligarchs must be concerned when they send him to the Klurtar house to negotiate with a private security chief who has been a commissioner for the French secret police. The adviser to François Hollande and a well-known socialist politician will speak later. The Panico in the palace, to parecer.Padrone is ready to give 45,000 euros to the awkward laborer and the employment of Carrefour... everything if he is not going to go to the press. At the end of the day, in order for the careless of the workers to be complete, Arnault, a golden Arnault who has never lost anything, is going to be paid and, in addition, remains ridiculous before everyone else.

This is a hopeful film in times of the general oppression of workers, who will perhaps see not only people on the left but also crushed poor diabetics. The former commissioner explains where the key to the revolt is, when he tells the Cleomenes that they have to be very careful with the people of Fakir. With that little magazine? Why? ”C’est les minorités agissantes qui font tout”. Entrepreneurial minorities are the most dangerous.


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