Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, former president of MEDEF, published a photo on his LinkedIn account this Friday showing him on the stands of the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, in the company of Dominique Carlac’h, president of the “Femmes du MEDEF” network, Bernard Thibault, former general secretary of the CGT and co-president of the “monitoring committee of the social charter of the Olympic and Paralympic Games”, and Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF.
In the photo, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux goes so far as to raise his fist, a way of ironizing his position among representatives of organizations supposed to have a link with the labor movement. But for anyone of normal constitution, seeing the former “boss of bosses”, a follower of the worst anti-worker reforms, make this gesture in the middle of union and “communist” leaders seems above all to be an immense provocation. Especially since Bernard Thibault and Fabien Roussel did not need to be asked twice to pose…
And for good reason, the former CGT union member, member of the board of directors of the Société de livraison des travaux olympiques (SOLIDEO) and Olympic flame bearer, shares the Paralympic fervor with the employers. Even though more than a hundred workplace accidents have been recorded on the Games construction sites, including at least 7 fatal ones, the latter has served in recent months as a workers’ guarantee for the Olympic Games, embodying the promise that the workers’ movement would not “spoil the party.”
For Fabien Roussel, this opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games has the feel of an extension of the REF, Meeting of French Entrepreneurs, the summer days of the MEDEF, where he was widely applauded for his defense of the “value of work” a few days earlier. We have a common ambition, a shared project, that of putting work back at the heart of society. ” he said in his speech, reported by Challengesa management magazine delighted with the speech of the pseudo “communist”, who also mentioned his friendship with the billionaire Gérard Mulliez.
In fact, the national secretary of the PCF has for several years now adopted the rhetoric of the “left of work” against the “left of benefits”, participating in the division of our class between active workers and unemployed workers. A concession to a rhetoric forged by the bosses, which goes hand in hand with his pro-cop outings, his anti-migrant speeches or his tackles against anti-fascist or environmental activists.
Between a former bureaucrat, specialist in betrayal of social conflicts and reconverted into a friend of the government, and a leader of the PCF, ready to do anything to legitimize his party in the eyes of the dominant classes, the head of the MEDEF indeed had reason to smile this Friday…
