By removing from the nomination those who criticized him, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has just dealt a new blow to the unity of the left.
A book analyzes his aversion to democracy, both within his movement and on a geopolitical level: Trotskyism, secret stories, from Lambert to Mélenchon (Les Petits Matins). Its authors, Laurent Mauduit and Denis Sieffert, have known Mélenchon for half a century. They trace a route that sheds light on his current behavior.
Trotskyism, secret stories
From Lambert to Mélenchon
Authors: Laurent Mauduit, Denis Sieffert
An essay on the most secret branch of French Trotskyism, Lambertism, and its influence on political and trade union life over the last half century – and still today.
The story told here is that of the Internationalist Communist Organization (OCI), the most secret branch of French Trotskyism. A story partly from the inside, since in their youth the authors were themselves “Lambertists” (named after the leader of the organization, Pierre Boussel, known as Lambert). They provide a political-historical investigation into this little-known movement despite its influence on public life in recent decades. To understand this, it is enough to cite the people who, with their faces revealed or hidden, were members, from Lionel Jospin to Jean-Christophe Cambadélis via Jean-Luc Mélenchon, not to mention numerous trade unionists like Marc Blondel or Jean -Claude Mailly.
This dive into the past provides keys to understanding the crisis the left is going through today. It allows us to understand the role of a clan which, gathered around Cambadélis, stormed the National Mutual of Students of France (Mnef), before, later, taking control of the Socialist Party and contributing to its historical decline. Finally, it allows us to identify some of the origins of the crisis which is destabilizing La France insoumise. Because if there is one person who has preempted the legacy of Lambertism, it is Mélenchon, who culturally reproduces the most characteristic features of this current of Trotskyism: a problematic relationship with democracy, hostility towards the media, a cold war geopolitical imagination.
Laurent Mauduit, formerly of Libération and Le Monde, is, with Edwy Plenel, one of the founders of Mediapart. His investigations gave rise to numerous works.
Denis Sieffert, long director of the weekly Politis, of which he is still the editorialist, is the author in particular of Left, the angry questions and several essays on the Middle East.
Release date : 04/01/2024
Collection : Trials
Number of pages : 464
ISBN: 978-2-36383-398-3
