The Fête de l’Humanité takes place until Sunday. Next year, it will take place at Plessis-Pâté in Essonne. The current site is to accommodate infrastructure for the 2024 Olympics.
At aperitif time, the activists’ debate is not about the Presidential election, but about the move of the Fête de l’Huma to Essonne next year.
“It’s a bond in the heart. We were at Parc Georges Valbon for 30 years and for 20 years here, at Parc du Bourget. It’s a lifetime”recalls one participant when another regrets: “It’s a whole atmosphere of conviviality, history and struggle that is disappearing. We’re going to build another in Brétigny, but hey”.
The current site will host part of the infrastructure for the 2024 Olympics. Created in 1930, this popular festival waltzed between Bezons, Vincennes and Montreuil for a long time, before landing in the 1970s in La Courneuve, a bastion of the red suburbs, with a recipe: politics and music.
“Vibrating Heat”
For 20 years, Edgar Garcia has been the presenter of the big stage and the witness of his evenings. “There is a lot of tenderness at the Fête de l’Humanité, a vibrant warmth. All this will find in Brétigny a setting to continue”he hopes.
This celebration also accompanied vocations, as for José Moury. He joined the Communist Party about fifteen years ago. “It’s a mixture of the Paris Fair, the Book Fair, a music festival and a political meeting. And that doesn’t exist anywhere else”says the 1st deputy (PCF) to the mayor of Bobigny.
At the time of farewell between two sandwiches, we debate around the future: should we open this party to new progressive forces, at the risk of making a moribund CP disappear? This year, it is also the ideological future of the left that is being played out at the Fête de l’Humanité.
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