Ne were concerned about the vagueness that the congress text [organisé du 7 au 10 avril à Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)] maintained on the strategic choices of the French Communist Party (PCF). Vaguely advocating union on the left, without proposing either strategy, precise framework or content, this text indeed carefully avoided mentioning the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) other than to insist on its limits.
But we were far from imagining that Fabien Roussel declaring the Nupes ” outdated would eagerly turn to the shipwrecked Dutchmen” (L’Express, April 3), like Bernard Cazeneuve who, as Prime Minister, kept until the end and without the slightest repentance since then, the course of a left as secure as it is austere. A strategic shift confirmed by the latter who even mentions meetings aimed at the union of the left ” responsible » (The Parisian, 4 avril).
We understand better why the very centrist Radical Left Party, which had supported Fabien Roussel in the presidential election, announced to join Mr. Cazeneuve as soon as his movement was announced in early March. Who can seriously believe that the latter could become the militant of the struggle against capitalism?
The true lines of a congress debate so far reduced to a very caricatural “for or against Fabien Roussel” are brutally revealed: what is on the agenda of the Communist Party is therefore a change of alliances policies. Thus renouncing to situate the forces aiming for a break with capitalism at the heart of the gathering of the left, we would now switch to a political axis favoring the center left or even social-liberalism. This would be a strange denial which, far from leading to an enlargement, would open the way to new electoral disappointments.
An anti-democratic twist
At the very moment when the presidential stubbornness is fueling both black anger in the country and the impatience of an extreme right which feels its time has come, it would be completely irresponsible to throw the Nupes out with the bath water, alone capable of carrying here and now a credible progressive alternative.
This would turn its back on the very strong unitary aspiration expressed in the movement against the pension reform, an aspiration to which the Nupes forces have so far been able to respond by organizing throughout France hundreds of public meetings and joint meetings.
It would also be a real anti-democratic coup de theater since the common basic text discussed by the Communists does not mention such an orientation, which tumbles into the public debate even though all the section or departmental conferences have already spoken.
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