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Nice-Première: It’s back to school but also back to politics. How were the holidays at PCF 06?
Robert Injey: Active, to make the PCF’s proposals known to residents and tourists. So nearly 75,000 documents for an emergency plan have been distributed since the end of June.
Active too, because every summer there are families threatened with eviction from their homes, or tenants suffering from OPAM malfunctions (see the elevator issue). Communist activists and elected officials have continued to intervene.
NP: What are the issues for the new school year and your current concerns? In summary, what is stirring the discussions of communist activists on the Côte d’Azur?
RI: There are two major concerns. On one hand, the social situation which for a large majority of the population continues to worsen. Loss of purchasing power, explosion of precariousness are an increasingly strong reality. The “social” tone of the government’s speech this new school year should not make us forget the effects of its policy on job precariousness, or the increasingly dramatic financial difficulties of households.
The other concern is 2007 and the preparation for the presidential and legislative deadlines, with the desire for the communists to defeat the right and build a real alternative to liberalism.
NP: Marie Georges Buffet made her “comeback” at the end of August in Hennebont. She outlined a presidential program. Can you summarize its key points for us?
RI: The important point of Marie Georges Buffet’s “comeback” in Hennebont is the appeal to the youth, to working France, men or women, French or immigrants, not to “let the presidential election be stolen,” to “not let themselves be imposed with off-the-shelf candidacies.”
For her, the strength of this people lies in its ability to grasp the challenges of the campaign as during the 2005 referendum, the anti-CPE struggle, or for peace in the Middle East.
This is the sense she wants to give to the building of a great rally and a popular candidacy that guarantees the future, with clear commitments aligned with expectations.
On commitments, Marie George Buffet proposes a series of immediate measures to respond to the social emergency.
• “A salary Grenelle” with in particular the minimum wage raised immediately to 1500€ gross per month.
• A taxation of profits to fund the creation of necessary jobs in public services.
• Really fight against relocations and stock market layoffs.
• Impose massive construction of social housing.
• Make companies, which choose the stock market over employment, contribute to the financing of social security and pensions.
• Give justice, police, associations, and juvenile judicial protection the means to really tackle insecurity.
NP: She reproached Ségolène Royal for not having a program but hopes for a Left Union: “what I dream of is that tomorrow, the whole left can participate in a political majority, and in a government carrying a policy capable of responding to popular expectations. What the communists want, I repeat again, I will repeat again over the coming weeks, we want the left to succeed.” How to achieve this gathering?
RI: After the failures of 1986, 1993, and 2002, the left no longer has the right to disappoint! A left that succeeds is one that will implement a policy in line with popular expectations and refuses liberal logics, as expressed by a majority of the left electorate during the victory of No on May 29, 2005.
That’s the reason why, since the referendum, communists and others have been working on the content of a policy that truly breaks with the liberal policies we’ve been suffering for over twenty years. We want to build this gathering around the appropriation by the largest number of people of the content of such a policy. This is the meaning of the creation in our department of about twenty local collectives since the month of June.
NP: On a local level, tell us about upcoming deadlines: legislative and presidential campaigns.
RI: They fit into this desire to build a real alternative to liberalism and not yet another alternation. For the presidential and legislative elections, we are in favor of common candidacies carrying the demand for this alternative.
NP: Is PCF06 already thinking about the municipals? Is there a dialogue between members of Nice-Plurielle to form a list, and if so, what will be the role of the Communist Party?
RI: There is a time for everything. Today, for our people, the priority is to end with a right that hurts. All the efforts of the communists are to make possible the emergence of an anti-liberal dynamic for 2007.
NP: I will cite words or names. Tell me what it inspires in you.
RI:
-Student return: The announcements from the government (regarding additional aid to students) cannot hide the fact that social inequalities that are strengthening in our country are even more so at the university.
-Nice grand stadium: If Nice needs a new stadium, on the other hand, the conditions under which the grand stadium project was or should be undertaken are scandalous. Delegating the construction and operation of the grand stadium to a private company, under the pretext that football is a public service, will cost, at the very least, 185 million euros over thirty years to the city and deprive it of the last free spaces in the Var plain.
The solution desired by J. Peyrat represents a cost that is more than three times that of rebuilding the Ray on site with 25,000 seats. A solution, however, if it were to happen, would be very good business for the private company Cari…
-Fête de l’Huma: with 500,000 participants and nearly 200 debates the largest popular and political event in our country.
-Lionel Jospin: The symbol of a left that failed because it refuses to question liberalism
-Patrick Allemand/Patrick Mottard: The people of Nice who can no longer stand the right in this city are deeply exasperated by the “war of the leaders.”
-Internet: A fantastic tool.
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