It is far from the golden age of the great Unef, of the Liberation at the beginning of the 1960s. In 1961, against the backdrop of the Algerian war, the Unef claimed one member in two among the students.
The time of the Trotskyists at the helm of the UNEF, then the gateway to the Socialist Party, is a long way off.
Like Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
, a
figure in the union in the 1980s, many of its former leaders no longer recognize themselves in this Unef which organizes
"non-mixed racialized meetings.
»And defends, in the name of secularism, the wearing of the veil at the university.
Benoît Hamon is one of the last representatives of the affiliation with the PS.
As the party sank, the UNEF entered new grounds of ideological struggles, decolonialism, racialism, intersectionality.
While losing its place as the first student union.
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Since 2016, the Fage (Federation of general student associations) has overtaken it in the representative bodies.
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