The PCF wants to try to weigh in through social protest

Two weeks before the traditional Feast of Humanity, the French Communist Party (PCF) made its pre-entry at the University of Strasbourg this weekend. A way for the movement and its militants to establish, finally, the results of the presidential campaign. Because, if by everyone’s admission, the candidacy of Fabien Roussel enabled the PCF to gain visibility within the left and prepared the ground for its integration into the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), the calendar election did not give the Communists the opportunity to learn the lessons of the April election.

“I have a very positive assessment of this campaign. It has allowed us to make great strides in our organization. We are looked at differently. The sympathy capital is there; we now have to transform it”, welcomes the Secretary General, Saturday 27 August. The latter plans to launch from September and until the congress (scheduled for April 2023) a tour of the regions. The candidate, who gathered 2.28% in the first round of the presidential electionaspires to become “the most popular party there is, the most unifying in the world and the most influential in France”.

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“At the side of the people”

If he does not deny the agreement with La France insubordinate to the legislative elections, Fabien Roussel says he is realistic about the ability of the 151 deputies of Nupes to make their voices heard in the face of a liberal majority. It is in the streets that he now intends to obtain the hoped-for changes, by calling for a strong mobilization alongside the unions during the demonstrations devoted to the defense of the health system and the increase in wages, on September 22 and 29. next. “We will not be stronger by erasing our diversity in a federation or a single party; we will be stronger by acting alongside the people”he launched.

“The National Assembly, like the Senate, are places where we bring our proposals to life, where we debate them. But we know very well that the great rupture we need will be blocked in each of the rooms. For things to move, all the left-wing environmentalists, beyond even those who signed an agreement in the legislative elections, must work together with the social movement and the trade unions so that this return to school is a return to mobilization.explains Fabien Roussel, calling on the left to “increase the level of resistance to government policy”.

Energy issues

The priority of the new school year for the Communist Party: energy issues, bringing together issues of purchasing power, sovereignty and climate change. While the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced the same day the creation of a “green fund” of 1.5 billion to support communities, Fabien Roussel calls to get the money “where he is” to feed a fund of 150 billion intended to finance the energy renovation of buildings, the production of renewable and carbon-free energy, the development of non-polluting and free transport.

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