#la france insoumise

[hard--headed--woman]

Et puisque je vois tous les partis de gauche et leurs sympathisants pleurer, se plaindre et manifester, je tiens à dire que je blâme totalement la gauche et en particulier LFI pour ce qui est en train de se passer. Au bout d'un moment il faut arrêter de pleurer parce que l'extrême droite avance considérablement et affronter la réalité en face : si les gens votent de plus en plus à l'extrême droite, c'est parce que la gauche (et la macronie, je ne l'oublie pas) est une immense blague qui a oublié ses valeurs de base, ne sait rien faire d'autre que dire "bloquons l'extrême droite!" et agir/parler/proposer des mesures juste pour provoquer celle-ci, qui n'a aucun argument solide pour quoique ce soit et débite un tas de conneries absolument incommensurable à la minute. Macron nous baise continuellement depuis 2017 et la gauche est remplie de clowns, évidemment que les gens se tournent vers l'extrême droite. Maintenant essayez de trouver d'autres convictions que "ouin ouin l'extrême droite est dangereuse bloquons la" et "légalisons tout et n'importe quoi sans réfléchir juste parce que la droite s'y oppose!" (façon de penser qui, d'ailleurs, a offert le pouvoir deux fois à Macron) et peut-être que l'extrême droite cessera d'avancer, parce qu'à ce rythme là après l'Europe on aura Bardella pour président bientôt.

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characters in order; nadia ozodo, oscar feira, phil poupon, sandy, bastien gelodu, léo desciternes, eric norac

made a visual novel about the current situation of the left wing union in france with my friend Paf! it took us 3 days flat as we were distraught after the results of the first election round. if you have been following what is happening in france, you must know that the far right is on the verge of power..

we hoped this game would be intuitive for people who aren't really politicized; it covers some program points while remaining fun and accessible and lasts about 15 minutes.

i illustrated all visuals you can see here. the characters are all representing various french left-wing politicians who have united to fight against the far right. this was also my first time drawing backgrounds! was super insipred by life is strange's environnements concept art.

you can play "Le Cœur à Gauche" here !!! (tw french)

i hope i will come back with a happier post on monday and if not, i will still be proud of the fight we have fought. culture is and will remain a social concept. what the far right does is destroy beauty and generate soulless, hateful, vile images via ai, spit out to represent fantasies of a society that does not exist. we will never stop fighting. NO PASARAN!

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81 MPs from NFP demand Macron’s impeachment

81 lawmakers from the New Popular Front (NFP) signed a motion for a resolution of impeachment against Emmanuel Macron, according to France Info.

This was announced on Wednesday, 4 September, by La France Insoumise, the party behind the initiative. The text was signed by 72 MPs, six elected environmentalists (Benjamin Lucas, Sandrine Rousseau, Clémentine Autain, Alexis Corbière, Hendrik Davi, Danielle Simonnet), and three elected members of The Democratic and Republican Left group (Frédéric Maillot, Karine Lebon, Emeline K/Bidi).

Faced with President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to appoint a Prime Minister from the coalition that came out on top in the legislative elections on 7 July, the authors of the motion for a resolution wish Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the Republic.

The impeachment procedure must follow a long process governed by Article 68 of the Constitution. The next stage would be to pass through the bureau of the National Assembly to ensure that the proposal is acceptable.

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Éric Coquerel (LFI) avoue accidentellement que la gauche pro-migrants est à la solde du patronat dans sa quête perpétuelle d'esclaves à sous-payer.

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Ce visage satisfait me hante

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La France Insoumise

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Las calles de Francia rebosan exigiendo un gobierno de izquierdas

[channeledhistory]

Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron schließt eine Regierung des Linksbündnisses Nouveau Front Populaire aus [...] [...] Bei der vorgezogenen Parlamentswahl vor sieben Wochen war das Linksbündnis auf Platz eins gelandet - vor Macrons Mitte-Kräften und den Rechtsnationalen um Marine Le Pen. [...] Schon am Dienstag will Macron sich erneut mit den Fraktions- und Parteivorsitzenden zusammensetzen. Sein Ziel ist eine möglichst breite und stabile Regierung. [...] [...] Die Gespräche vor allem mit den Zentrumsparteien hätten mögliche Koalitionen aufgezeigt. Die Fraktionen seien bereit, eine Regierung zu unterstützen, die von einer Person geführt würde, die nicht aus den eigenen Reihen stamme. Macron und seinem Mitte-Lager schwebt eine Art große Koalition vor. In dem Schreiben teilte Macron weiter mit: "Die Sozialistische Partei, die Grünen und die Kommunisten haben bisher keine Wege der Zusammenarbeit mit den anderen politischen Kräften vorgeschlagen. Es liegt nun an ihnen, dies zu tun." Damit spricht Macron explizit alle Parteien des Linksbündnisses außer der Linkspartei La France Insoumise (LFI) an. Sein Lager hatte eine Zusammenarbeit mit der teils populistischen Partei bereits in den vergangenen Wochen immer wieder ausgeschlossen. Das Linksbündnis hingegen hatte wiederholt klargemacht, im Verbund regieren zu wollen. Nach Macrons Ankündigung, eine Regierung des Bündnisses auszuschließen, äußerte sich die Allianz empört. Grünen-Chefin Marine Tondelier nannte Macrons Mitteilung eine Schande. Der Präsident ignoriere das Wahlergebnis. LFI-Fraktionschefin Mathilde Panot drohte Macron sogar mit einem Amtsenthebungsverfahren. Wie es in Frankreich nun weitergeht, ist unklar. Da im Herbst der nächste Haushalt verabschiedet werden muss, bleibt nicht viel Zeit, um eine Regierung auf die Beine zu stellen.

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Le leader du Front populaire français pour la France insoumise : « Honte à vous en tant que Juif »

Des militants de l’extrême droite juive en France ont attaqué le leader du Nouveau Front populaire, chef du Parti socialiste, Raphaël Glucksmann, lui reprochant de collaborer avec le parti antisémite La France insoumise (NF). Les socialistes sont entrés dans un bloc avec plusieurs partis d’extrême gauche – des communistes au FN flirtant avec les islamistes – avec pour mot d’ordre de sauver la…

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Rachel KÉKÉ à la consultation populaire des quartiers de Perpignan

Mickaël IDRAC pour l’Observatoire citoyen de la vie quotidienne (OCVQ) nous communique sous le titre “Rachel KÉKÉ présente à la consultation populaire municipale des quartiers à Perpignan pour l’OCVQ” avec prière d’insérer : “Dans le cadre du lancement d’une série de consultations populaires en vue de l’élaboration du programme municipal à Perpignan, l’AGAUREPS-Prométhée et l’Observatoire…

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Roerig Frankrijk: over pensioenen en een misplaatste keizer

De Franse politieke cultuur heeft veel merkwaardigs. De quasi-revolutionaire stemming waarin het land nu al maanden verkeert, naar aanleiding van zoiets onbenulligs als de geleidelijke verhoging van de pensioengerechtigde leeftijd van 62 naar 64 in het jaar 2030, is daarvan een goed voorbeeld. Wie de luide tegenstanders van deze ‘hervorming’ hoort – parlementariërs van ‘La France Insoumise’,…

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[allthegeopolitics]

A leftwing alliance was on track to become the biggest force in the French parliament on Sunday after tactical voting held back the far right, but the shape of the future government remained uncertain after no group won an absolute majority. The New Popular Front alliance of parties – which includes the former ruling Socialist party, the leftwing La France Insoumise, the Greens and Communists – was predicted to take 172–192 seats, according to projections by Ipsos pollsters for the French public broadcaster. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist grouping, Ensemble, was in second place, projected to take between 150–170 seats, a loss of up to 100 seats but a stronger showing than expected. Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration National Rally (RN) was predicted to come third with 132–152 seats, along with its allies on the right.

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(JTA) — The Jewish French-Moroccan journalist Ruth Elkrief — who has delivered TV news in France for over 30 years — found herself at the center of the story when she was placed under police protection in December.

Elkrief received the security detail after an online attack from the far-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mélenchon charged her with hatred against Muslims after she challenged one of his colleagues during an on-air interview about the Israel-Hamas war.

“Ruth Elkrief. Manipulator. If we don’t insult Muslims, this fanatic is outraged,” Mélenchon said of the journalist, adding that she “reduces all political life to her contempt for Muslims.”

Mélenchon, leader of the far-left party La France Insoumise, known as LFI or, in English, France Unbowed, posted his comments moments after Elkrief conducted a heated interview with LFI lawmaker Manuel Bompard on her TV channel, La Chaîne Info, on Dec. 3. Elkrief asked Bompard about his party’s refusal to condemn Hamas and its characterization of the militants as “resistance fighters” after their Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. She also asked about the party leaders’ decision to describe Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide,” and whether this language might provoke civil unrest in France.

In response, Bompard referenced warnings from the United Nations that the Palestinian people were at risk of genocide without a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Elkrief in turn quoted the French historian Vincent Duclert, who has said of Gaza’s high death toll, “Even a frightening humanitarian situation is not enough to qualify as genocide.”

Elkrief, who says she “came out” as Jewish to her viewers after Oct. 7, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she merely did her job of debating an interviewee and dismissed Mélenchon’s accusation of Islamophobia. According to Elkrief, she was challenging the positions of France’s far-left political class — not French Muslims, whom she does not believe to be well represented by LFI even though nearly 70% of them voted for the party in the 2022 national elections.

“Most French Muslims don’t support Hamas and they don’t support all these catastrophes,” she said. “They can of course fight for a Palestinian state — and I agree with that — but they are not agreeing with Hamas and terrorism.”

Nonetheless, Mélenchon’s charge prompted a wave of threats against the Jewish journalist and raised an alarm for French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. Darminin said he decided to provide police protection because Mélenchon “put a target on the back of Ruth Elkrief, who already faced many threats as a journalist [and] was just doing her job.”

The government was on high alert for domestic attacks responding to the Israel-Hamas war. Mélenchon’s statement came the day after a knife-wielding man killed a German tourist and injured two others near the Eiffel Tower, telling police he was angry about the fate of Gaza and “so many Muslims dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine.”

While it’s typical for domestic attacks to increase in France during conflicts in Israel and the Palestinian territories, a recent surge in antisemitism has been especially pronounced. Darmanin reported over 1,500 antisemitic incidents in the six weeks after Oct. 7 — a three-fold increase from the total documented in all of 2022 — including desecrated Jewish graves and the stabbing of a Jewish woman in Lyon whose door was marked with a swastika.

Whether or not Mélenchon planned for an antisemitic backlash against Elkrief, his choice of language on X was loaded, according to Dorian Bell, a professor researching France’s history of race and antisemitism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“To accuse a Jewish member of the media of ‘manipulation’ arguably draws on long-standing antisemitic tropes about Jewish control of the media,” Bell told JTA.

Mélenchon’s words landed in the middle of a polarizing fallout from the Israel-Hamas War in France, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe (about 5 million) and the world’s third-largest Jewish community after Israel and the United States (about 500,000).

French authorities met the wave of antisemitic incidents with a crackdown on pro-Palestinian rallies. Darminin attempted to impose a blanket ban on demonstrations denouncing Israel’s military campaign, which he declared “likely to generate disturbances to public order.” Although the ban was overturned, local authorities can still block protests on a case-by-case basis, prompting an outcry from some French citizens who accuse the government of suppressing free expression in support of Palestinians.

France’s Jews and Muslims have both experienced a painful recent history, including institutionalized discrimination against Muslim immigrants and Islamic terrorist attacks that targeted a Jewish school in 2012 and a Jewish supermarket in 2015. The reverberations of the Israel-Hamas war in France have further shaped a perception, solidifying for decades, that the country’s antisemitism and Islamophobia can be collapsed into a Jewish-Muslim conflict.

Michel Wieviorka, a Jewish French sociologist who studies violence and terrorism, told JTA there is no evidence that antisemitic incidents are predominantly driven by French Muslims. In fact, most of the perpetrators behind the recent spike in incidents — particularly non-violent ones, such as property damage and graffiti — are unknown. Between Oct. 7 and Nov. 15, 1,518 reports of antisemitic acts resulted in 571 arrests, Darmanin announced in November.

“Nobody knows exactly who is acting,” said Wieviorka. “Many people believe that most of these acts come from people with immigrant origins, but they can also come from the extreme right. For instance, I know some cases of destroyed graves in Jewish cemeteries — these attacks usually come from the extreme right, not from Muslims or Arabs.”

For Elkrief, Oct. 7 marked a turning point both personally and professionally. The 63-year-old journalist was born in Meknes, Morocco, and moved to France with her family when she was a teenager. (A remaining synagogue in Meknes bears her family name.) She started her long career at the French desk of the Associated Press in 1984. She spent 14 years at TF1, the oldest TV channel in France, helped found two news channels — LCI in 1993 and BFM TV in 2005 — and has hosted an LCI show about French politics since 2021.

She is also the great-niece of Chalom Messas, who was Morocco’s chief rabbi in the 1960s and 1970s until immigrating to Israel in 1978, when he became the chief Sephardic rabbi of Jerusalem. Elkrief is part of France’s small Liberal Jewish community and maintains Jewish traditions, keeping kosher at home and gathering the family for Shabbat evenings — including her two daughters and a newborn granddaughter. (Liberal Judaism in France is most similar to Reform Judaism in the United States.)

In all her years on air, Elkrief never spoke about her Jewish identity on TV before Oct. 7. She felt obliged to keep a “poker face” about her private life until the Hamas attacks, when she was moved to share more — fueled by her fear of rising antisemitism and enabled by her recent position as a commentator.

“I could explain where I was coming from and how much I was anxious about antisemitism in France after the 7th of October,” said Elkrief. “I called it my ‘coming out.’ I’ve since had some opportunities to speak about the conflict as a French editorialist, but also as a French Jew, for the first time in my life.”

On Oct. 9, Elkrief told her viewers that she was born in Morocco and lived there until early 1974, when she was 13. Her parents, both descended from generations of Moroccan Jews, feared regional tensions in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel fended off attacks from Arab countries. They went to France because they believed their children would have a safer life there.

“When I came at that time, I couldn’t imagine that there would be antisemitism in France,” Elkrief told JTA.

Worried about antisemitism gaining currency in French politics, Elkrief has criticized far-left factions heavily on her show. In addition to her dispute with Bompard, she blasted LFI for boycotting a march against antisemitism in November.

France’s traditional left, which encompasses socialist and communist parties, has nearly collapsed and left the more radical, controversy-dogged LFI in power, said Wieviorka. Meanwhile, the far-right National Rally — including anti-immigration leader Marine Le Pen, whose father and predecessor is a convicted Holocaust revisionist — has escaped the same censure for antisemitism during Israel’s war on Gaza, largely by proclaiming support for Israel.

“My idea is that they hate Arabs, Islam and migrants so much that they consider they have to be fighting on the other side,” said Wieviorka.

Bell cautioned against focusing exclusively on what is often described as the “new antisemitism” on the far left. The “old antisemitism” on the far-right never went away, he argued, but has only been masked by pro-Israel sentiment. Indeed, Bell said that historically antisemitic tropes — particularly those depicting an invasion of Jews too different or unassimilable to become truly French — have merely been recycled by the far-right to stigmatize Muslim immigrants.

And even if this narrative now primarily targets Muslims, Jews are not free from the conspiratorial discourse, said Bell. He pointed out that while members of the National Rally may not explicitly attack Jews, they sometimes use euphemisms for Jewish “elites” whom they blame for engineering mass migration, in a French version of the “great replacement” theory that has fueled violence around the world.

“When Marine Le Pen talks about ‘cosmopolitan nomads’ who are encouraging migration and destroying European nations, she has a tendency to mention Jewish French political figures — Jacques Attali, Daniel Cohn-Bendit,” said Bell. “I don’t think that’s an accident.”

Elkrief and Mélenchon have one thing in common: They are both among the estimated 836,000 Moroccan immigrants in France. (Mélenchon, 72, was born in Tangier and lived there until he was 12.) Elkrief said she is a strong believer in the “Republic,” which in France denotes an idea that there are only equal individuals in the public sphere, no minorities or ethnic groups. The country’s principle of “laïcité,” loosely and imprecisely translated as “secularism,” enshrines in French law the state’s neutrality between religions and confines religious symbols and practices to the private sphere — a pillar that Elkrief believes can protect France from discrimination against both Jews and Muslims.

“I don’t want to be defined by my religion, and I don’t want other French people to be defined by their religion,” said Elkrief. “I believe in the French Republic staying a space of debate, where religion is a private question.”