“Let’s build a new Popular Front”: Fabien Roussel addresses the French in a letter

2023-06-21 12:09:09

Blue suit, red tie, hands stretched forward, Fabien Roussel addresses the country. It is with this new “letter to the French” that the boss of the PCF hopes to flood the streets. This leaflet printed in two million copies – a large volume for the PCF – will be distributed from the beginning of next week. “The federations will receive it in the coming days”, details a Communist Party executive. This will be the material of the party during the summer holidays and the start of the school year until the feast of Humanity, next September.

The former presidential candidate, who had gathered just over 2% of the vote, reaffirms his positions criticized on the left on work. “We defend the right to work for all, secure, with a real salary, throughout life, allowing us to live, to raise our children, to go on vacation, to project ourselves into the future and to to be able to enjoy a good, healthy retirement. A job that allows you to train, reorient yourself, meet the needs of the country and meet major challenges such as the climate. There is urgency,” he wrote, while vilifying government policy and the “cult of money.”

Take the opportunity to chat with people

“They want to silence us. They despise the trade unions and the millions of workers, workers who have been demonstrating for 6 months against retirement at 64 (…) In short, they are damaging the Republic”, targets the number one of the PCF, largely re-elected at its last congress.

“This is why I want to invest myself with each and every one of you to snatch victories, everywhere, and first and foremost against inflation and for salary increases, like those obtained by the women of Vertbaudet (on the Marquette-lez-Lille site, in the North)”, he explains, before urging “the indexation of wages to inflation”. “Wages, purchasing power, public services: the time for justice must come!” “is it inscribed in highlight.

And Fabien Roussel to launch an appeal: “Let us unite, in companies, in our municipalities, in our neighborhoods to ensure respect for human dignity everywhere, to reduce trafficking and corruption, to bring equality and fraternity to life. and the Republic in a France free of its choices! »

Find a membership dynamic

Further, he calls for building a “new Popular Front which brings together the France of the cities and the countryside, the France of work and social progress, a sovereign France, capable of finally putting the human being and the planet at the heart of all his choices. Without ever mentioning the Nupes, this alliance of the left formed under the leadership of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and whose line Fabien Roussel regularly criticizes.

This initiative aims to increase the number of members of the PCF, which claims 3,000 new ones since the presidential election. “From now on, each federation will identify in each department the different places or companies where we are trying to set up: hospital, factories, professional high schools.

With this leaflet, it is a question of taking advantage of it to discuss with people, to propose to them to join and to find a dynamic of membership, in particular before the European elections. The PC wishing to present its own line. And to try, once again, to distinguish themselves from the Nupes.