A Bill to Prevent the Government from Keeping Files on Trade Unionists

On Dec. 28, French Communist Party deputy Pierre Gosnat came to Perpignan to support Philippe Galano [1]. Gosnat, who represents the Val-de-Marne, outlined the bill that he has tabled in the French National Assembly: “It is a question of excluding trade union activists from the provisions of the law on internal security, and not forcing them to provide DNA samples,” Gosnat said. “In just a few years, France has begun applying drastic security measures. In the year 2000, DNA samples from 2,000 people were on file. Today, 1.2 million samples are on file. And the data bank is growing by 30,000 names a month! Political and trade union activists are treated as criminals.”