Anasse Kazib is the presidential candidate of the far-left movement Permanent Revolution, a dissent from the NPA.
Railway worker and SUD-Rail activist, he participated Wednesday morning in an inter-union mobilization in front of the building of the Ile-de-France regional council to denounce the reorganization of the Transilien network.
In this campaign where he is hardly visible on the audiovisual media, Anasse Kazib wants to “address all the exploited and oppressed”.
The sound system spits
What Am I
by Snoop Dogg.
Perhaps in homage to the rapper's performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
Or more certainly to ambience the employees of the SNCF grouped this Wednesday morning in front of the headquarters of the Ile-de-France region, in Saint-Ouen, to denounce the reorganization of the Transilien network.
In total, between 500 and 600 demonstrators – according to a wet finger count against a thousand according to the organizers – are present at the foot of the beautiful glass facades of the Ile-de-France building at the call of SUD-Rail, but also of the CGT and OF.
“Do you comrades hear me?
“Launches at the microphone a CGT official who recalls that the mobilization of the morning is part of the “fight against the dismantling of the public services of the SNCF in Ile-de-France”.
Concretely, and according to the calculations of SUD-Rail, this reorganization of the Transilien amounts to 133 stations transformed into "Point of unmanaged stops" (Pang) therefore without personnel or whose opening hours will be reduced, with the consequence of the suppression of 338 positions.
“He is good Anasse”
Syndicated SUD-Rail, Anasse Kazib, presidential candidate in the name of Permanent Revolution – a dissidence of the NPA – came to support the mobilization with a little delay and without fanfare.
Dressed in black and with a blue and brown backpack, he navigates between the clusters of militants as Bengal lights have just been lit.
"He's good Anasse", slips a salesman from the SUD unionized SNCF, before going to greet him.
For the candidate from the radical left, this reorganization is in the “continuity of the scrapping of the railway and the preparation for the opening to competition”.
Moreover, he carries in his program "the cancellation of all the reforms of opening up to competition" as well as the workers' control of the transport companies which must be managed "by those and those who make the public service of transport on a daily basis ".
Finally, he calls for free transport to ensure the ecological transition.
But everything is linked according to him, because the latter “cannot be done with those who put us in this shit”.
The betrayal of the left
In his sights in particular, the left of government.
“There is nothing to expect from this institutional left which has betrayed the labor movement so much,” he believes.
It is from below, through our struggles, that we can act.
In fact, assures Anasse Kazib, "the presidential election will not change anything in the system" since "the bosses are not going to allow themselves to be dispossessed of companies just because we put a ballot in the ballot box".
But a “revolutionary candidacy which is 5 or 10% in the elections, for power, for the system, that would be very worrying because we are talking about free transport, wage increases.
»
And to achieve this score, Anasse Kazib targets abstainers who "when they voted were betrayed".
"In this candidacy which is subversive, there is the possibility of mobilizing these popular classes who abstain, especially in working-class neighborhoods", he believes.
And he wants to sweep wide.
“We are not only addressing the worker in overalls, we are addressing all the exploited and oppressed, too long neglected by the far left.
The SUD railway worker, who nevertheless does not have the support of his union - "in the federation, some agree with him, others do not, so we do not take a position", explains a member of the federal office - thus claims the presence at its meetings of Assa Traoré and members of the Adama committee.
“You have to go to this front line and this front line,
Take a trip for two, both on the paths
But as a prerequisite, you need the famous 500 sponsorships.
"This roadblock is for candidates like ours, so that they cannot express themselves", denounces Anna Kazib, who refuses the label of folkloric candidacy.
“Today we are at 116 sponsorships.
We saw more than 8,000 mayors.
There are more than 450 activists who have been criss-crossing France for six months.
Among these activists is Yassine who has just returned from Haute-Saône to "search for a signature".
Yassine is a RATP bus driver, a CGT union member, and got close to Anasse Kazib during the great mobilization against the pension reform.
“In fact we are cousins but as we are a big family, I saw him once a year.
I knew he was going to
Les Grandes Gueules
from RMC, but I didn't even know he was an active activist.
»
And to hear it, going in search of sponsorship for Anasse Kazib is like looking for a boletus in the woods after a month of drought.
“I went to Dijon by train and then a sympathizer took me by car to go to Luxeuil-les-Bains where we rented an Air BnB because there was no one to accommodate us.
Yassine targets small town halls, large municipalities being managed by politicized mayors.
He thus establishes a schedule according to the opening hours of the town halls, but sometimes that is not enough.
“Sometimes the mayor is not there so we have to go to his house by finding his address in the white pages.
»
Absent from TV sets
“Most of the time, we are well received, continues the RATP agent.
People are touched that we make the trip”.
But this does not mean that Yassine obtains the famous signature, he who has scratched four over his wanderings in Côte-d'Or, in Essonne or in Eure-et-Loir.
“Most mayors refuse because they are afraid, either because they fear they will no longer receive subsidies from the department or the intermunicipal authority, or because they do not want to sponsor a candidate with an immigrant background in their municipality. where the extreme right scores high.
»
📣 The latest CSA table from 1/01 to 13/02.
The gap is even more incredible, 5min in all for my candidacy, Lassalle before last is at 1h42, Zemmour 148h or Taubira which has 50 sponsorships less than me but has 384 times more airtime or 32h.
#OuEstAnasse pic.twitter.com/zNDTNKaKVI
— Anasse Kazib (@AnasseKazib) February 16, 2022
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However, obtaining sponsorship is all the more difficult as Anasse Kazib's notoriety is low.
Yassine admits that the supports he has obtained are “democratic signatures” from mayors who did not know the trade unionist SUD.
This is why the latter calls for better media exposure.
“In the month of January, according to CSA data, I am the last of all the candidates, I spoke 2'40.
For example, Taubira, who has 50 referrals less than me, spoke 11 hours!
And Zemmour, 33 hours when he only has twice as many referrals from me.
“But in this” total media blackout “, Anasse Kazib sees reason for hope: “If we are made invisible so much, it is because we bother them a little bit.
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