"
Ah...ah!
Anti!
Anti-capitalists!
The clamor set the tone, Saturday at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, during the meeting of presidential candidate Philippe Poutou (NPA), who came to defend his "
rupture
" program and feed his troops with hope, eight days before first round.
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Red, everything is red.
Under the marquee of this iconic monument in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, dozens of flags in the colors of the far left party, born in 2009 from the former LCR (Revolutionary Communist League), are waved in the stands.
Below, on the circular stage, the Trotskyist candidate draws the strong line of his speech: "
My program is not a list of promises to show off
", he declares.
“It is quite simply a project of breaking with capitalism.”
Saturday afternoon, the leader of the NPA recalled wanting to cage the "
dangerous scam
" of the capitalist system,
and
"
hustle, even overthrow this power
" held by "
Macron and his gang
", at the same time in the first meeting campaign on the Arena stage in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
“Money, there is”
“
We are here!
We are here !
Even if Macron does not want it!
»
.
In the room, the crowd resounds with the songs of the "
yellow vests
" and the walls shake with applause.
"
We all want to hit the same nail: employers, French or international
", sums up Loïse, a 23-year-old student.
The former worker at the Ford factory in Blanquefort (Gironde) also says he defends the idea of a "
decent life for everyone
", with an increase in the minimum wage to 1,800 euros net per month as well as a reduction in working time of work.
How to compensate?
Dig into “
the accumulating fortunes
”
,
he suggests.
And the white-hot crowd added: “
There is money!
In the employers' coffers!
".
For the far-left candidate, it is also a question
of “expropriating and socializing whole sections of the economy
” to put it back into the “
hands of the people
”
.
In the plural, because the internationalist candidate dreams, moreover, "
of a world without borders, of solidarity and cooperation between peoples
".