France’s left-behind forgotten again

As a crowd celebrated the victory of Bally Bagayoko, the new mayor of the Parisian commune of Saint-Denis, they chanted: “We are all children of Gaza.” The winning candidate from the far-left France Unbowed party considers that Saint-Denis is the capital of the resistance against what he calls imperialism and he considers that its people, like those in Gaza, suffer from injustice. If, in the past, communism used the workers’ condition as a rallying cause, today’s far left is using Gaza as the new rallying symbol.

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