Marches of liberties: against the extreme right, the left in dispersed order

Is the united left back?

From rebellious France to the Socialist Party, from Generation.

s to the communists or environmentalists, they will all demonstrate this Saturday, within “marches of freedoms”.

All over France, left parties and movements will march against "the ideas of the extreme right".

“For several months, we have observed an alarming political and social climate, we explain to rebellious France, one of whose deputies, Éric Coquerel, is in the process of maneuvering with Thomas Portes, spokesperson for Génération.s. To ally with the extreme right or to take up his ideas is no longer a prohibition. From the Global Security law to the law on separatism, through the hunt for Islamo-leftism and the abolition of the Observatory of secularism, this five-year term is accumulating pledges for the far right, by resuming its elements of language, but also some of its proposals. "

🚨 Tomorrow, we raise our heads

Faced with the attacks and the unbreathable discourse of the extreme right, for our freedoms: we are back in the streets!

110 organizations call # 12Juin.

144 cities mobilized.

All that's missing is you!

In Paris, I'll meet you at 2 p.m., Place de Clichy!

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- Eric Coquerel (@ericcoquerel) June 11, 2021

No wonder, under these conditions, that Macronie did not join these marches.

Even if a prominent member of the government confided to us, “if I were not a minister, I would have gone to demonstrate as a simple citizen”.

"We fight the RN and the extreme right, every day, by ideas and actions, in the ballot box and outside the ballot box," insists, on the other hand, a leader of LREM.

"The fight against the RN does not take place during a march, especially when it is instrumentalised by the extreme left", adds Roland Lescure, deputy walker and responsible for the spokespersons of the movement.

Geographic dispersion of left leaders

But if the left will appear united this Saturday, appearances are deceptive.

Difficult to bring together, even behind the consensual banner of the fight against the far right, parties more fractured than ever on secularism, security and the Republic, and divided by competing ambitions ... Especially since the last speeches of Jean -Luc Mélenchon on a so-called "conspiracy", linking presidential and terrorism.

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To mobilize as widely as possible, the promoters of these marches have therefore decided to appeal to the parties, but also to the cultural, associative and union left. In addition, the 18 political organizations classified on the left, 13 unions and 38 collectives, such as Cimade, Attac or the League of Human Rights, will therefore swell the ranks of the processions. The unions in the lead, followed by associations and parties.

Another symptom of this malaise, the geographical dispersion of the leaders of the left. If Julien Bayou, the leader of the Greens, will demonstrate in Paris, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Benoît Hamon (Generation. S), the MEP EELV Yannick Jadot, who supports these marches, will participate instead, Saturday in Berlin, in the Congress of Grünen , German environmentalists. Fabien Roussel, the number one of the Communists, will beat the pavement in Lille and the boss of the Socialists, Olivier Faure, in Avignon…