The following organizations and collectives: Unite/make people, UJFP, Tsedek, decolonial HQ, Call against permanent war and for revolutionary peace invite you to the Political Summer University “Preparing for victory, organizing pessimism”, on July 3, 4 and 5, 2026, Gennevilliers! Registrations are open.
Something is going to happen in 2027. While we are on the brink of a third world war or a global economic explosion, the 2027 presidential election will be crucial: the far right has never been so close to power, the disruptive left has serious chances to reach the second round, macronism, alas, is not dead. It is the election of all dangers. But it is also a historic opportunity that obliges our side.
Despite the relentless anti-Semitism campaigns since October 7, the political recovery from the death of Quentin Deranque, and the coalition of all the forces from the extreme right to the “reformist left” against rebellious France, the social bloc that this represents holds strong, and anchors itself even more with the municipal elections. If we are to believe the reactions to the few electoral successes of the rebels, we know that the upcoming campaign will be extremely violent. Let us have no doubt, these forces will prefer Hitler to the Popular Front. They will prefer it all the more since France is too central a state to be abandoned to a social alternative, capable of putting an end to the Thatcherite dogma: “There is no alternative”.
They will prefer it, ultimately, because France persists in being the leading edge of the class struggle in the North. From 2005, with the no to the European Constitutional Treaty, the neighborhood riots against racist police crimes, the massive movement of youth against the First Hire Contract – a thread opens which extends into the insurrection in Kanaky and the mobilizations in the “overseas”, the movements against pension reforms and the labor law, against the police violence of Lamine Dieng in Nahel Merzouk, against Islamophobia, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes then in Sainte-Soline, in the roundabouts and up to the outskirts of the Elysée where the yellow vests rumble.
Partly breaking with the consensus – neoliberal, Islamophobic, security and imperialist – which cements the rest of the political spectrum, France Insoumise appears as a daughter of this sequence and a student of these struggles. If disaster is the normal course of things, we still find ourselves dreaming.
Let things be clear: France Insoumise is not a revolutionary formation. But, concrete analysis of the concrete situation requires, it is clear that there is no mass revolutionary movement, that the ruling and media classes designate rebellious France as the main enemy and that there is no other equally powerful revolutionary left in the West. The duty of revolutionaries is twofold: on the one hand, to stand up to this conquest of our struggles, and on the other, to deepen the class struggle.
This duty applies to all scenarios: takeover of power by the fascists, maintenance of authoritarian Macronism or victory of the FI. The institutional tool cannot claim to fully defend us from current accelerations, nor guarantee the realization of the promises it carries with it. Victory is prepared as much as pessimism is organized. And if we must dream, we still have to draw more finely the maps of these dreams. The electoral battle will be tough. It would not make sense if it were not accompanied by a deeper movement, in the streets and the world of work, in the countryside and cities of immigration, the strategy of which remains to be built collectively.
Convinced of this necessity, we propose to meet in large numbers during a large forum on July 3, 4 and 5 to reflect and imagine together the conditions for strengthening our collective power whatever the configuration that will emerge on the evening of the second round.
If it is the renewal of the current bourgeois bloc, or, even worse, the arrival of the far right in power, we must think about and prepare in advance the forms of organization, solidarity and social anchoring which will allow us to hold on and continue the collective action which will open the way to the counter-offensive. In other words, it will be a question here of politicizing pessimism because defeat is not the end of the organization, it redoubles its necessity.
But first of all we need to think about strategies that will help avoid such an outcome. Not in a defensive mode, the “middle” solution which would repeat the disasters of the left governments of the past, but by drawing on all the experiences of struggle of recent years and on the possibilities opened up by the emergence of a left of rupture on a mass scale.
The questions that arise are then those of the alliances around which a “majority popular bloc” can form, the modes of organization of these alliances, both in programmatic and discursive terms and in terms of organization in the strict sense. From this perspective, how can we build a people capable of overcoming the racial divide of the working classes?
These questions will continue to arise, in a different form, in the event of LFI’s victory, which will mark the start of a war of positions within institutions, in society and at the international level. Preparing for victory means anticipating conflict with the capitalist and racial state and with all the international institutions within which it takes place: the European Union and its powerful Central Bank, NATO, or even directly with US imperialism, more determined than ever to crush everything that threatens it. resists.
There is no doubt that the forces engaged in this confrontation will have to face the sedition of the police, the senior administration and the sabotage of economic power. How, from the outside as well as at the institutional level, can we force a government not to deviate from the path of rupture and prevent it from being reabsorbed by the State? How can we conceive the relationship between the plurality of fronts of struggle and movements from below and the need for political direction of this process? In short, how to make a victory at the polls more than a simple electoral success: not a mythical “big night” but the beginning of an offensive sequence, which will make it possible to shift the balance of power over time and put an end to the long neoliberal night.
Let’s make things clear: an electoral victory for the FI would only constitute a stage victory, but it would represent a sufficiently powerful break to open the way to revolutionary possibilities. This is what we call preparing for victory.
Lucid on what a victory or a defeat would be in a context of asymmetry in the balance of power both on a national and international scale, we propose to face together all the hypotheses, from the most joyful to the darkest, to be the best armed, without ever abandoning either our hopes or our determination to overcome over time.
So what to do? How can we live up to History and accomplish our mission regardless of the name of the person who will reside at the Elysée? Let’s ask ourselves these questions together on July 3, 4 and 5 at the Gennevilliers village hall.
Come in large numbers, register and register your friends!
Making a bloc/making a people, Tsedek, UJFP, Decolonial HQ, Call against permanent war and for revolutionary peace.
