On the polls and within the streets

Thursday June 13 at 6pm Place Félix Poulat after which Saturday June 15 at 2pm from Grenoble station, come and shout your rage in opposition to the far proper and those that put together the way in which for it.

Lastly, a broad Widespread Entrance has been organized to counter the affect of the acute proper. A Widespread Entrance able to creating a serious political shock, as researcher Julia Cagé and economist Thomas Piketty predicted of their newest research,”A historical past of political battle“.

For the primary time in France, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty have rigorously recognized and digitized election outcomes of the 36,000 municipalities in France for 200 years. Then they crossed these outcomes with loads of financial, geographic and sociological information.

What are the conclusions of those analyses?

To simplify it, because the financial disaster and inequality deepen, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty announce that the left might return within the subsequent elections, if the questions concerning the distribution of wealth and entry has put public companies again on the desk of the platform, and if the left succeeds in uniting and embodying itself by way of credible personalities.

Will the Widespread Entrance motion have the ability to counter the robust actions of the the sociology of voting in France : the good abstinence of the youngest and most weak populations, an over-representation of aged folks with a snug way of life?

To be taught extra concerning the fascinating work of Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty, we suggest:

– interview with Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty on France Inter: Macron’s vote is probably the most bourgeois in historical past

– interview with François Ruffin on Mediapart: Revive the left, however how?

– the location presents all the information and the principle findings of the analysis: https://unehistoreduconflitpolitique.fr

– And naturally, the e-book by Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty: Historical past of political battleElections and social inequalities in France, 1789-2022, printed by Le Seuil.

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To take a step again from election points, we additionally suggest:

– Interview with Frédéric Lordon: Ruffin 2027? Fascinating interview (and bonus)

– Well-known podcast from France Tradition on the sociology of voting in France: Vote, a disappearing act? This podcast is a abstract of the e-book Vote to vanish (PUF, 2022).

– Interview with Vincent Dain, doctoral scholar in political science on the College of Rennes and professional on the unconventional left: Senate launch: “We’re in a really harmful state of affairs”