A wake-up call is needed now! The far-right has just achieved a historic score in a threatening global context. It appears capable of uniting the right and is now on the verge of power in France. By playing poker with democracy, Emmanuel Macron is taking the risk of bringing them to power, six months after voting for a shameful immigration law with them. This event must create a shock. We have less than three weeks to prevent the far-right from leading the country. There is very little time left to propose an exciting solution to the disasters of our time. On the left, we must finally reconnect with victory and the best moments in our history. Like in 1934, we must defend “what the people have conquered in terms of rights and public freedoms”.
Only the union of the left and the ecologists can counter this dreadful prospect and open the hope of a better life. Only this union can bring together the working class and the middle class from small towns to suburbs, villages to major cities, as it has been done in the past. Only this union can act seriously in the face of the triple urgency of climate, social, and democratic issues. This can happen if the left and the ecologists, broadly defined, present unified candidacies everywhere for the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7. Together, the left and the ecologists have the means to be the leading political force in the next National Assembly. If separated, we pave the way for the far-right to attain power.
We, in our diversity, personalities from the world of work, research, culture, activism, and associative activism, are convinced that victory is possible if we meet urgent social needs, defend solutions for life, ecology, and climate, value feminist struggles, fight against all forms of racism, reject of Muslims and anti-Semitism, stigmatization of migrants and sexual minorities, and for respect, dignity, and equality. And if our obsession is justice and democracy as a guiding light, even for ourselves. We know that these fights and values must be carried by a pluralistic, social, cultural, and political force. Political parties cannot do it alone. Citizens must get involved so that a mobilization dynamic emerges. A mobilization for unity. Today and now.
