Robert Injey, a leading figure of the Nice Communist Party and former city councilor, is a candidate in the regional elections on the “Région Co-operative” list, which brings together the Left Front, the Greens, and other leftist movements.
He calls for voting and explains his motivation: “This Sunday, December 6th, don’t let others decide for you. You are fed up with the austerity policies that have been imposed for more than 20 years. We are a majority in France in the same situation.”
The right, and now the Socialist Party, have applied the same formulas producing the same effects: more and more unemployment and difficulties for the majority, more and more gifts to the wealthiest, more and more taxes for most of us, less and less purchasing power, less ability to live, lower wages, less social protection, and fewer public services, with the retirement age continuously pushed back…
All of this is intended and supported by a MEDEF that never has enough. Yet, we are a majority who crave life, justice, freedom, equality, and fraternity. We are a majority rightly outraged by this politics that goes backwards but…
Some are disgusted
We are too. But giving up has never improved daily life. When you abstain from voting, you don’t change the course of things; on the contrary, you’re giving power to those who dominate us. Imagine the strength all the “disgusted” would have by regaining hope and asserting, together, the choice of putting Humanity first and not money.
Some want to shake up the status quo
We do too. But, while there are things that must be broken with, there are especially others to build. What does the National Front want, for example? To divide the poor and modest people, to designate scapegoats to avoid tackling the holders of wealth who continue to get richer at our expense. They want to push back the retirement age and lengthen the work week. This does not challenge the established order, quite the contrary.
Some don’t want a return of the right-wing
We also don’t. But it must be recognized that if the French people drove out Nicolas Sarkozy and elected François Hollande, our living conditions have not improved. With so many concessions, some no longer recognize the left and its values and see that this government is heading straight for a wall. The left has never imposed its major social reforms by keeping a low profile but by being ambitious.
In our Region
We are not the left of the left. We are the left! The courageous one; the one that wants to build and invent putting Humanity first and will never play into the hands of the right. The one that proposes and acts to protect our lives, for social justice, to develop and modernize public services, for the equality of territories, and for the ecological transition. Its representatives will be, by your side, in all your battles.
Robert Injey (Région Co-opérative list)
