In May 2013, the communists of Nice adopted a strategic direction for the 2014 deadlines by adopting a text titled “Nice: Giving Meaning to the Left”. Recently, they have just adopted a campaign framework. Out of more than 500 communists in Nice, nearly 400 participated in this consultation.
Today, the communists are ready for action with the implementation of this new framework. The 2014 municipal elections, the first election since 2012, will be a crucial moment. Nice, the fifth-largest city in France, facing a powerful right-wing, will need to engage in a lively dynamic on the left.
This is explained by Robert Injey, the movement’s leader, assisted by the other two Nice communist officials, Emmanuelle Gaziello and Jacques Victor:
“The costly Estrosi system (in Nice, things are pricier than elsewhere) combines social regression with a security-focused rhetoric to win over the National Front electorate. Nice is tightly controlled. Through public-private partnerships (new stadium, tramway…) or other arrangements (stadium-supported real estate program), Nice has become a cash cow for a few major groups for decades.
Meanwhile, Nice is the 4th city in France, for cities with over 100,000 inhabitants, in terms of the increase in the housing tax between 2008 and 2012.
A common denominator unites tens of thousands of inhabitants of this city: the refusal of austerity imposed on the majority, the desire to build a future for our children that doesn’t rhyme with precariousness, unemployment, exclusion. The desire to rebuild a city to live better and live together.
But our approach also addresses all those on the left, socialists, ecologists, who are disappointed. To those men and women who want to prioritize human over the dictatorship of money and the arrogance of a local right that believes it is allowed everything, our message is clear: “Let’s unite.”
