Humanity Festival 2025: Make way for hope

The ^90th Fête de l'Humanité, which opens this September 12, is taking place in a volatile context. The Bayrou government, illegitimate and unpopular in view of the July 2024 vote, has logically fallen. The period that is beginning is full of uncertainty and fuels popular anger.

Only one man, the President of the Republic, holds the cards. He alone can decide to reappoint a prime minister from the united right, dissolve the National Assembly, call a referendum on the institutions... He alone can decide the future of our country after having plunged it into the abyss and divided it more than ever by pursuing a policy that serves a privileged caste.

On the contrary, the Fête de l'Humanité is about the common good, about democracy in the service of an ideal that we, for our part, call communism. This weekend will see a surge of freedom-loving crowds carrying the banner of equality and fraternity and thirsting for justice and peace among peoples.

It's time for a party to cope with the anxious and gloomy atmosphere . This audience will attend and participate in the discussions that constitute the major questions and crises of our time: ecology, feminism, anti-racism, peace.

It's time for debates and exchanges on alternatives and paths to another world, to a society free of exploitation, poverty, and war. With activists from associations, unions, international organizations, and political parties, including those from the Communist Party, who are the driving forces behind this popular gathering, the debates will be lively and respectful, far from the caricatures and invectives of social networks saturated with hatred.

Make way for culture and emancipation with all the arts that will meet in every space, from stages to exhibitions, including books, cinema, and theater. At a time when the powers of money and reactionary forces want to bring creativity into line, we are offering them a space of freedom where the only prohibition is that of prohibiting.

Let us seek the demand for social justice that is the majority in this country! At the time of the ^80th anniversary of Social Security , these are new rights that we must conquer. Let us cry out the rejection of wars and denounce the horror of the genocide in Gaza. A few days before the UN General Assembly, we will carry loud and clear the voice of a France that recognizes the State of Palestine.

Those who come do not want to be trapped in an impasse that leads to political despair. They want to seek paths to human and fraternal emancipation, one that restores taste, hope, and struggle.

We therefore have an immense responsibility. To ensure that after these three days of this Festival, and with September 10 and 18, this compact, dense, and diverse crowd becomes one people. A people committed to the social, secular, democratic, feminist, and ecological Republic, fighting for its rights to be won, for a sharing of power, knowledge, and wealth.