French left plans to create a ‘progressive international’ to fight against the far right

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/21/french-left-plans-to-create-a-progressive-international-to-fight-against-the-far-right_6741499_7.html

by LeMonde_en

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  1. **A group of Socialist, Green and Communist elected officials are set to meet with political leaders, intellectuals and civil society figures abroad. They aim to forge connections to better resist the far-right Rassemblement National party if it came to power.**

    How can the left resist the far right’s rise, symbolized by Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States, Javier Milei’s rise in Argentina, Geert Wilders’ breakthrough victory in the Netherlands and the surge of the [Rassemblement National](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/05/03/le-pen-s-tightrope-preparing-voters-for-plan-b-without-admitting-defeat-to-election-ban_6740879_5.html) (RN) in France? To answer this thorny question, the French left aims to rebuild a “progressive, humanist and environmentalist international,” in the spirit of the major left-wing networks of decades past, the last of which was seen in the alter-globalization movement of the 2000s.

    Hoping to rekindle that era, a network of French elected officials – MPs, MEPs, mayors and senators – is about to embark on a tour, through an initiative called *La Digue* (“The Dam”), to meet with political leaders, intellectuals and civil society figures. Their aim: to ask them “how they resist” and to build connections, ahead of the possibility of the RN coming to power. “Nothing seems to stop the momentum of identitarian neofascists. The forces opposite us are allied and powerful. They sustain the narratives they instill against critical thinking, science and everything that makes us democrats,” said, on Tuesday, May 20, left-wing independent MP Pouria Amirshahi (formerly a Socialist, who now sits with the Greens in the Assemblée), who spearheaded the initiative and had once taken part in the alter-globalization movement.

    “La Digue,” whose position can be summed up with the slogan “Neither Trump nor Putin,” according to left-wing MP Tristan Lahais, aims to oppose the “neofascist international.” “The progressive camp must not be like a rabbit caught in a car’s headlights,” added Socialist MP Fatiha Keloua Hachi.

    **Read the full article here:** [**https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/21/french-left-plans-to-create-a-progressive-international-to-fight-against-the-far-right_6741499_7.html**](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/21/french-left-plans-to-create-a-progressive-international-to-fight-against-the-far-right_6741499_7.html)

  2. The righties will lose their mind as soon as the Russian payments clear.

  3. The left will do anything but address the immigration issue. The “far right” will not go away if they do nothing about it, and it will only grow. Also how ironic of them to dare talk about critical thinking when their agenda includes anything but critical thinking

  5. Replacing far right with far left isn’t a solution. Trust me, we tried it so you don’t have to.

  6. Left does have a more effective solution to migration than the right (by helping poorer countries have a better standard of living, so they don’t feel the need to migrate), but most people complaining about migration will be opposed to that solution cause it’s more about xenophobia and easy scapegoats than solution.

  7. Finally some organized action. Law enforcement must receive a clear course of action against fascist propaganda at all levels.

  8. French left known as LFI is rotten to the core by russian money and influence, so, yeah, good luck with fighting racism with that.

  13. Well they gotta get fuckin’ onto it like it should’ve been ready to go yesterday!

    (Or last year if you wanna be more precise)

  14. Denmark proves that it’s unbelievably easy to stop the far right

    100 percent end of mass migration

    Prioritize your people above foreigners in all situations

    The sad reality is that most European politicians would rather have open borders with Afghanistan than protect democracy

  17. I like the idea but it shouldn’t be the extreme left to fight the russian puppets of the far right

  18. Loooooooong overdue. 

    As long as it doesn’t involve anything Russian. 

    The Far Right schemes and plots. The Left has just reacted and draft ‘strong letters’

    Time to be proactive. 

  19. Wasn’t the far left supposed to be doing that all along?

  20. Ah, more of the same shit that brought them to power ?

    I’m sure it will help… get them to ever higher amounts of power.

    Stupid shits.

  21. Translation: interference in foreign affairs. That’s not democratic and it will backfire spectacularly.

  22. Sound like a big waste of money, if you dont want the right to win do what you promised to do and what people voted for

  25. Perhaps instead the European authorities should invest in fighting against the Russian financed bots spreading lies, misinformation and propaganda and by far the main reason for the rise of all these neo-fascist movements.
    It’s also known Russia has influence among the more radical left parties, their objective the creation of extreme divisions in European societies.
    Perhaps we should start by removing the arsonists before attempting to contain and extinguish the fires.

  28. A coalition that includes the Putinist left can never be progressive.

  29. Ok, but what about trying to offer things to people who are susceptible to the rightist propaganda by not demonizing their beliefs for problems that leftists don’t want to deal with. We need a centrist party

  31. Jeez wtf is wrong with this sub. Didn’t know trying to fight fascism was controversial now lol.
    Obviously I don’t have high hopes for this initiative – we’ve been burned by politician’s cynicism too badly in the past – but it seems to me they’re sincerely trying to help for once. At least someone is doing something, while the rest of us are like deer in the nazi tank’s headlights.

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