Left chop vs left quinoa

Let's first go back to the current political grub: Fabien Roussel calls for a new Popular Front, which amounts to disconnecting the Nupes which he considered outdated in an interview published in L'Express . In Marseilles, where the great congress of the PCF was being held, to the executives who in Le Monde judged it irresponsible to throw out the Nupes with the bathwater , he replied: " It is not a question of throwing the baby out with the water. bath, but you still have to change the water from time to time! At the same time , the National Secretary of the Communist Party extended his hand to Bernard Cazeneuve; he therefore disputes the leadership of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left. Crime of lèse-majesté!

La Nupes, you love her or you leave her

Behind all these tactical and political bickering, there are real fundamental differences. A few sentences from Roussel's speech, in particular, particularly annoyed the Insoumis: " They put France on the right corner, they signed free trade treaties with all their might, they turned our borders into sieves, opened the France to the four winds, to merchants and to finance (…) they let our factories slip away and they come back today with their mouths in their hearts talking to us about sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty…”

The melanchosphere strangles on its favorite theme: here is the far right! " Reds-bruns no pasaran " , tweets for example the documentary filmmaker David Dufresnes. “ Leaving Nupes for the RN, I was not ready ” , annoys another. In short, Fabien Roussel is the coco-facho!

But why does his plea for sovereignty shock the rebels so much? 

Even if it is addressed in theory to Emmanuel Macron and to the right, these accusations of having sold off France and its industry are largely valid for the entire post-Mitterrandian left, which has thrown itself headlong into globalization. financial. It is under the power of this left that the big sale was largely held. It effectively let our factories go abroad.

According to the supporters of Fabien Roussel, moreover, what he wanted to denounce in his speech is the free movement of goods, of course. But the real issue of discord on the left is obviously the migration issue, the free movement of people. Roussel is also the left of Vitry's bulldozer. Remember, in 1980, when Paul Mercieca, the communist mayor of this commune, participated in the ransacking of a home for Malian workers to protest against mass immigration. In short, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon flirts with the Muslim vote, Fabien Roussel hears about the native working classes, the old school people(as Michel Onfray calls it) that the left abandoned to the RN because it was not multicultural enough, not progressive enough, not modern enough… Fabien Roussel could therefore tomorrow dispute with Marine Le Pen this France of the sub-prefectures. It only remains for him to abandon the word communism; first, because it is stained with blood; then because the French want to regulate capitalism, but not break with it. For the rest, he is right. The left chop has a much better future than the left quinoa.