SOS Racisme

A French anti-racist organization and youth movement, founded in the 1980s in the context of anti-racist mobilizations in France, which according to some analyses was cultivated under President François Mitterrand to channel and blunt youth protest during a period when class-based politics were declining in mainstream French politics.

Claims that use this term

• SOS Racisme actually functioned as a Mitterrand-created instrument to blunt youth protest
• SOS Racisme emerged precisely as class politics faded from mainstream French politics