The youth in the working-class areas of France descended from postcolonial immigration and considered a threat by the established order, are subjected every day to an operation that robs them of their childhood: they are not treated like children but as threats to the survival of the system.
Fatima Ouassak, the author of this combative book full of hope, shows the political strategic potential of mothers. By systematically exercising solidarity with their children, by no longer acting as a barrier between them and the violence done to them, in short, by no longer being a force of social peacemaking and no longer supporting the inegalitarian system, they will, in turn, become threats to the established order.
The aim of this book is to propose a political alternative, controlled by mothers and focused on the breakdown of parenting, which combines academic success and dignity with an ecological project to reconquer territory.
Fatima Ouassak is a political scientist and cofounder of Front de mères, the first parents of students’ union in working-class areas. She is also president of the Réseau Classe/Genre/Race (Class, gender, race network) which fights against the discrimination to which women who are descendants of postcolonial immigration are subjected. La Puissance des mères is her first book.