"What is true for kyiv is true for Gaza": tribute to Jean Jaurès, founder of our newspaper

Jean Jaurès would have recognized his own people on July 31st at the Croissant bistro. To pay tribute to him, 111 years after his sinister assassination in 1914 by the nationalist Raoul Villain, there were readers of L'Humanité, the newspaper he founded, communist activists, the mayor of the arrondissement, Ariel Weil, accompanied by his socialist comrades, rebellious activists, and elected ecologists. The united left he loved so much. Bearer of the desire for peace that he himself professed.

In his speech, Fabien Gay, director of L'Humanité , called for the culture of peace to be lived out . "It is practiced daily in our relationships with others, in relationships between individuals, between societies and between states," he explained, calling for "addressing conflict and disagreement through dialogue." The very hallmark of democracies.

He calls for an end to "the balance of power, this law of the strongest." "War is capitalism's best ally, peace is that of a democratic society, of the sharing of knowledge, wealth and power, a society and an ideal that we still call communism," he says.

On the other hand, the "alliance of reactionary neophytes 3.0" around Trump , with the Argentinian Milei and the Italian Giorgia Meloni, embodies "this shift to a world governed by violence" . An axis that attacks the law, "an obstacle to doing business, monopolizing resources" and a tool capable of reducing their possibilities of "throwing workers' rights to the wind" .

Regarding the ongoing conflicts, the communist senator denounces " Russian aggression in Ukraine " which "endangers regional security. " What "is true for Kiev is true for Gaza," he insists, urging people to denounce "the horror, these emaciated bodies of children" and recalling that the term "genocide" is "now accepted by human rights NGOs."

At the heart of the holidays, the tribute to Jaurès is also a time to prepare for the start of the school year, support the mobilization of unions and prepare for the future Fête de l'Humanité . Conflicts fuel a war economy, worries Fabien Gay, which will result in "budget cuts presented as necessary sacrifices" in François Bayrou's next budget, which will be examined from September.

However, "it must be remembered that there is no majority, either popular or in the Assembly, to get his budget adopted," denounces Fabien Gay. According to him, the Prime Minister intends above all to "open the Overton window and prepare the post-Macron period for the radicalized right" who, from Retailleau to Bardella , including Le Pen and Darmanin, will want to go further by challenging the 35-hour week or the retirement age, he warns.

Finally, the communist senator from Seine-Saint-Denis also denounced the extreme right, "this current of ideas which brought down our dear Jean Jaurès" and whose "love of the nation is nothing but a swindle. " The time has come to "unite" to "convince that another path is possible." And to resist.