This Saturday, June 12, the political, trade union and associative lefts are meeting during a "march of freedoms", motivated in particular by recent news, such as accusations of Islamogauchism, the controversy over "single-sex" meetings, police protests and the rise of the far right.
With parades in many cities of France, at the call of more than a hundred organizations, this "
march
", very different from the events dominated by the unions, is intended to be a large-scale event.
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The political cast will be dispersed. The rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Benoît Hamon (Generations) and the ecologist Julien Bayou should participate in Paris in the march, which will leave at 2 p.m. from Place de Clichy to reach Place de la République via Boulevard Magenta. Communist leader Fabien Roussel will be in Lille, socialist Olivier Faure in PACA, while EELV MEP Yannick Jadot will participate in another event.
The sign that the birth of this "
walk
" was long and complex. The process began in the fall of 2020, told AFP LFI deputy Éric Coquerel, co-initiator with Générations spokesperson Thomas Portes. Opposition to the comprehensive security bill, and in particular its provision for sanctioning people filming police officers, has crystallized the anger of a broad spectrum on the left.
The idea does not find an outlet for the deconfinement at the beginning of the year, but is revived by the approach of the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal wanting to attribute to the CNRS an investigation on "Islamogauchism" in research, in February. The controversy that immediately followed him on “single
-sex
”
meetings
at UNEF finally convinced Éric Coquerel and Thomas Portes to step up. But the division of left parties on subjects such as secularism, the police and the Republic, complicates support for an initiative on freedoms which would have been unanimous in this part of the political spectrum several years ago.
Especially since the membership of Eric Coquerel in the close guard of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, more and more isolated on the left after the controversy over his remarks linking presidential and terrorism, has placed in some minds the event in competition with another unitary initiative, more oriented towards 2022: the meeting of the left at the call of Yannick Jadot.
