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When Jaurès and the CGT were more anti-immigration than the right

2024-02-07T18:26:06.577Z

Highlights: When Jaurès and the CGT were more anti-immigration than the right. As soon as it comes to regulating migratory flows, the left replays the same comedy, mixing overplayed indignation, abusive appropriation of morality and multiplication of signs of belonging to a cultural elite. The endless and byzantine debates around the immigration law, adopted in December by the National Assembly, offered the disillusioned citizen a new representation of this spectacle. “We are touching on a France which risks seeing the ideas of Vichy return, whitewashed ” (Jean-Luc Gleyze, PS president of the Gironde departmental council, to AFP)


ANALYSIS - The Jean Jaurès Foundation has just published a note analyzing the evolution of the positions of the French left on immigration. At the end of the 19th century until the 1960s, it defended a firm policy on this subject.


It is a piece that has been performed without interruption for a quarter of a century.

As soon as it comes to regulating migratory flows, the left replays the same comedy, mixing overplayed indignation, abusive appropriation of morality and multiplication of signs of belonging to a cultural elite.

And what does it matter if the audience has deserted the theater?

The endless and byzantine debates around the immigration law, adopted in December by the National Assembly, offered the disillusioned citizen a new representation of this spectacle where the roles are known in advance.

Selected pieces:

We are touching on a France which risks seeing the ideas of Vichy return, whitewashed

(Jean-Luc Gleyze, PS president of the Gironde departmental council, to AFP);

Everything goes out in the land of lights

(Mathilde Panot, LFI deputy, on the social network X).

However, the left has not always uttered cries of outrage when hearing the word “borders” nor assimilated any desire to control them…

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Source: lefigaro

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