2023-05-10 18:49:26
“I cancel you from my world. I leave, I go on strike, I join my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over that of money and power. » Posted by Telerama Tuesday May 9, the letter by which the actress Adèle Haenel announces the end of her career does not spare the world of cinema, which she accuses of “widespread complacency towards sexual aggressors”. Already in 2020, the actress left the Césars ceremony with a bang, ulcerated by the awarding of the prize for best achievement to Roman Polanski, accused of several rapes.
Today, Adèle Haenel hears “to politicize” the end of his career, assimilating the 7th art to a “bourgeois order” that she intends to overthrow. Her decision highlights the trajectory of a Caesarized actress at just 25 years old, who became a “feminist activist” under the colors of the far-left collective Permanent Revolution.
Absent from film sets for three years, she has continued to invest the field of social struggle in the battle against pension reform. On March 24, she appeared as the spokesperson for Permanent Revolution alongside the strikers at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville-l’Orcher, in Seine-Maritime.
“The purest Trotskyist tradition”
This former current of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), with only 400 members, enjoys the support of famous fellow travelers such as the philosopher Frédéric Lordon or Assa Traoré, emblem of anti-racism. At its founding congress in December 2022, it defined itself as “a collective that fights for the emancipation of all from an anti-capitalist, socialist and revolutionary perspective”.
“In the galaxy of the French extreme left, Permanent Revolution is part of the purest Trotskyist tradition. It is the tail end of a long history inaugurated by the Revolutionary Communist League in 1968,” explains the political scientist Laurent Jeanpierre. The movement had existed within the NPA since 2011, under the name of Revolutionary Communist Current (CCR). But it took until 2018 and a new party congress of Olivier Besancenot and Philippe Poutou for the divorce to be consummated with this rebellious left wing.
A sociology close to academic and intellectual circles
At the time, 296 dissidents berate “a turn to the right” and denounce “a policy of compromise with the institutional left”. They disapprove of the unitary strategy which consists of forging alliances with La France insoumise. A rupture precipitated by the emergence of the future leader of Permanent Revolution as the 2022 presidential election approaches: Anasse Kazib. Despite his media exposure, this railwayman, who distinguished himself during the movement of yellow vests, did not cross the bar of 500 sponsorships.
Permanent Revolution already existed independently through its online newspaper created in 2015, but also its student organization “Le Poing levé” and its feminist entity “Du pain et des roses”. “Their rather sophisticated rhetoric is mixed with all the old theories dear to the far left”, remarks the professor at the University of Paris-1, Laurent Jeanpierre. With nevertheless “a particular sociology which owes much to the investment of university circles, intellectual and cultural professions”.
Invited to speak at Paris-8 University during a feminist and anti-racist meeting last February, Adèle Haenel launched in front of 350 white-hot students: “I played in a movie called Portrait of a girl on fire, and today I want to say: You can put misery on the capitalists and the bourgeois and portray the youth on fire! »
That evening, in the speech of the actress, all the fights of the moment merge: environmental issues, police brutality and racial discrimination or against LGBT people. What, she hopes, will create the conditions for a “insurrection against capitalism and patriarchy”.
#Permanent #Revolution #farleft #collective #actress #joined