Coignard – Strikes: arithmetic exercises for the use of LFI


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With the march organized on Sunday, October 16, Mélenchon’s party takes a failure for a success. A deliberate confusion in the form of an “alternative truth”.




By Sophie Coignard

Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of La France insoumise, alongside the writer and Nobel Prize for literature Annie Ernaux, during the march against inequality and climate inaction, Sunday, October 16 in Paris.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise, alongside the writer and Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux, during the march against inequalities and climate inaction, Sunday October 16 in Paris.
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” HASfter the success of Sunday’s march, today’s mobilization confirms it: the government’s policy is largely rejected”, triumphs, in a press release, the parliamentary group of La France insoumise (LFI). Admittedly, event organizers, whoever they are, always tend to embellish reality. But isn’t such a triumphalism part of what is now agreed to be called “alternative truths”?

Donald Trump, a champion of this discipline, affirmed, in 2017, against all evidence, that never had an investiture ceremony brought together as many people as his. The protesting left seems ready to use the same big strings, yet easy to unravel.

A few simple arithmetic exercises allow you to measure the am…


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