The Château Festival is organized on Château Hill by the Communists of Alpes-Maritimes since the post-war period. This festival is now established as the major political, festive, and popular event of the department at the beginning of summer.
Cécile Dumas, departmental secretary of the PCF, invites everyone for great moments of solidarity, debates, fraternity, and conviviality.
For her: “This 2014 festival concludes a long electoral sequence that saw the political landscape of the department and the country significantly shift to the right, and a Valls government that completely forgot its remaining leftist values.
The “red thread” of this 2014 festival will indeed be the reconstruction of the Left. The communists will use this occasion to call on all those who want to resist, act, and debate, to work on a Left project for our country, a call for the construction of a Popular Front, a People’s Front to rebuild the Left.
Two days where meetings, politics, culture, concerts, and local specialties intertwine, two days of fraternity and conviviality.
Every year, this festival is the great political, festive, and popular meeting of the early summer, made possible by the mobilization of hundreds of volunteers.
As every year, this festival will bring together all those who never give up, who fight and want to build a more just, more solidary, more fraternal society.
In these times of political and economic stagnation, the Château Festival is an opportunity for activists and supporters to replenish their hope, debates, meetings, and enthusiasm.
The debates
Saturday, June 28:
2:00 PM: “Territorial Reform, What France Tomorrow?” debate hosted by Jacques Victor, General Councilor, President of the ADECR with the participation of Francis Tujague, General Councilor and Mayor of Contes, and Gérard Piel, Regional Councilor.
3:00 PM: Debate organized by Friends of Liberty “In the Alpes-Maritimes, the War of 14-18” followed by the inauguration of the exhibition.
4:30 PM: “Freedom of Palestinian Prisoners and Palestinian Reunification” in the presence of Taoufik Tahani, President of the AFPS, the Ambassador of Palestine in France, and Pierre Barbancey, senior reporter at l’Humanité.
6:00 PM: “Put People First! How to Empower this Slogan!” with the participation of numerous Left Front activists.
Sunday, June 29:
2:00 PM: “Secularism Is Not What You Think” with Pierre Dharréville, author of the book, and Marie-Christine Vergiat, European Deputy.
3:30 PM: “Sport Business – Sport for All – High-Level Sport – How to Find Consistency?” with the participation of Marie-George Buffet, Deputy, Jean-Claude Poirier, and Arnaud Berthier, co-presidents of the FSGT committee of Alpes-Maritimes.
5:30 PM: MEETING at the DONJON space with Cécile Dumas, departmental secretary of the PCF06, Marie-Christine Vergiat, European Deputy, Marie George Buffet, Deputy.
