The Popular Front against fascism returns almost a century after it was first adopted by the Comintern. Yesterday in France, an electoral alliance was announced consisting of the Socialist Party, Communist Party, Ecologists, Mélenchon’s France Insoumise, and a few other small left groups.
The alliance has been formed to combat the rise of Le Pen's far-right movement, as well as the current government. In a joint statement they said, “We wish to carry out a program of social and ecological rupture to build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and combat the racist project of the far-right.”
This tactic was first formally adopted at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International and was based on the idea of uniting all anti-fascist forces, including those of the working class and progressive middle class. Politically, this meant that communist parties would extend an olive branch to social democratic parties.
Popular Front alliances historically took power in Spain and France, with communist parties as their fiercest advocates. In the case of Spain, the communist party helped build the “Popular Army,” bringing together all democratic forces against Franco. However, the idea was opposed by anarchists and Trotskyists who believed in a pure revolutionary front that excluded liberals and socialists.
Explaining the theory behind the Popular Front tactic, then-General Secretary of the Comintern, Georgi Dimitrov, wrote “when the scattered proletarian detachments, at the initiative of the Communists, join hands for the struggle against the common enemy, when the working class, marching as a unit, begins to act together with the peasantry, the lower middle classes and all democratic elements, on the basis of the People's Front program, then the offensive of the fascist bourgeoisie is confronted with an insurmountable barrier.”
In response to the formation of today's Popular Front in France, the conservative "Republicans" party has announced an alliance with Le Pen's far right "National Rally" party.
Extraordinaria demostración de civismo y democracia hemos visto este domingo #2Jun en México, una gran participación en las elecciones presidenciales. Felicito a este noble pueblo, a su Presidenta Electa Claudia Sheinbaum, al Partido Morena, al PT y a los Movimientos Sociales.
Felicitaciones al Presidente @lopezobrador_, quien es un gran líder de México y de nuestro continente. Esta es una gran victoria para la Patria Grande. ¡Los Abrazo! ¡Viva México!
México eligió a una progresista como la primera presidenta de su historia. Es un triunfo para el pueblo mexicano y para su democracia.
Felicitaciones a mi amiga Claudia Sheinbaum, juntos trabajaremos por ver a América Latina unida y progresando.
Ne, in den Regenbogen-Farben geht beispielsweise auch. Oder halt klassisch schwarz und im Fall von AfD-Brandner besonders passend mit der Aufschrift:
St. Pauli gegen Rechts!
#fcsp
Ono. Doslovno smo predstavljali program pred stotinjak ljudi, uključujući sve novinare, brojne komentatore, profesore… i o njemu govorili tijekom kampanje. Al dobro, evo da se nađe
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U dijelu Vladinog programa nema jasno određene borbe protiv korupcije. Pa sam pokušao pomoć novom ministru:
— jačanje kapaciteta za borbu protiv korupcije (tijela istrage, jasniji i kratkotrajniji proces)
— suradnja naših tijela sa OLAF-om i EPPO-m
— jačanje neovisnosti sudaca
Bivša ministrica poljoprivrede, koja se u svom mandatu rukama i nogama borila protiv zaštite prirode, sada je imenovana ‘zelenom’ ministricom 👀👀
Strah me te zelene tranzicije #politikahr
Rasprava o novoj Vladi;
Glasao protiv
Očekujem loše
Nadam se kratkom trajanju
Ali sve rasprave će biti konstruktivne jer jedino to ima smisla! ✊️
1. Izgradnja nove šibenske bolnice
Vlada koja bi se trebala boriti protiv korupcije prožeta je korupcijom. I to je, nažalost, realnost onoga što se nudi. Uz HDZ ne može i neće biti napretka i boljitka za građane ove zemlje. #politikahr@pedjagrbin
Čestitamo Međunarodni dan borbe protiv homofobije, bifobije i transfobije! Borili smo se i nastavit ćemo se boriti protiv govora mržnje i diskriminacije po bilo kojoj osnovi. Samo tolerancijom kao društvo možemo učiniti napredak u cilju ostvarenja pune ravnopravnosti. #politikahr
Zekanovićeva prijetnja je nešto što od takve spodobe ne iznenađuje. Međutim, zanima nas što o tome imaju reći oni koji su ga u Sabor doveli? Oni čiji je novi-stari predsjednik Sabora još jutros govorio o prijetnjama ekstremnih političkih skupina kojima se moramo oduprijeti...