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Cambadélis: "It feels like the Maoist China of the Red Guards"

2021-03-21T21:02:05.685Z


INTERVIEW - The former first secretary of the Socialist Party believes that the militants of the UNEF think they are revolutionaries but that their concerns no longer have anything to do with the defense of the moral and material interests of the students.


Former deputy for Paris and first secretary of the Socialist Party until 2017, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis chaired the National Union of Students of France - Independent and Democratic (Unef-ID) from 1980 to 1984. He takes a severe look at this what has become of the student organization.

LE FIGARO.

- What do you think of the current drift of the UNEF?

Jean-Christophe CAMBADELIS.

- It is no longer a union, it has become a political group movement whose ideology is that of Anglo-Saxon campuses.

They go to the end of this logic in good faith and in all sectarianism.

These activists have become the red guards of the "woke"

(militant and combative state of mind in favor of the protection of minorities and against racism, Editor's note).

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Approving denunciations of professors like at the IEP of Grenoble is unheard of even if the president of the UNEF has distanced herself from her.

One would nevertheless believe oneself returned to Maoist China of the Red Guards.

It is distressing even though these students

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Source: lefigaro

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