Sowing a Rural Insurgency

Rebuilding the Left in one of France’s Poorest Cities

Roubaix used to be home to France’s textile industry — but doesn’t have the same battalions of factory labor as it once did. For France Insoumise, the challenge is to rebuild the Left’s roots in working-class communities. Employees of the French retail company La Redoute take part in a protest against layoffs on March 21, 2014, in front of the company's headquarters in Roubaix, France. (Denis Charlet / AFP via Getty Images) France Insoumise has…

Sowing a Rural Insurgency

New organizing groups agitate for a healthy share of resources to rebuild the Democratic image in left-behind communities.

The courage of the jubilees is not surprising: their militancy forged in the hard school of the dictatorship, contrasts with the apathy of other social sectors that seem today far from the struggle and mobilization.