Keeping the Red Flag Flying

Manon Aubry | La France Insoumise | Rebranding the Left | Rosie the Riveter | People and planet | Trade and emissions | Yellow vests | Macron’s rightward plunge | Darmanin & Le Pen | Identity politics in France | 5G phones | Gobshite | Water polo

18 March 2021

The hard left is often associated with the colours red for revolution and black for anarcho-syndicalism. But the movement is more and more green these days too. The trend is exemplified in many ways by Manon Aubry of the political party La France Insoumise. Since 2019, she has been a co-leader of the Left in the European Parliament and is the youngest person to head one of the chamber's political groups. Manon says a green-tinted approach to social and economic justice combined with unabashed antifascism can help to rebrand her fractious group of leftists and communists — and win voters back from the far right.

James Kanter is co-founder and editor EU Scream. For 12 years he was an EU Correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times based in Paris and Brussels.  

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