In the strongholds of the cultural left

MTuesday, February 14, Villejean campus, Rennes 2. The day before at 10:30 p.m., the university hastily closed its premises, to avoid an announced occupation. Students arrive in small groups. The crowd grows quietly, under the sun. A striking illustration of real student precariousness, a line of some 600 young people stretches out in front of a stand where the Pirate Union (UP), the majority union in Rennes 2, distributes food aid packages. “It’s a short day, commented a member of the UP. Sometimes we go up to 1,000 people. » Sitting on the asphalt, packet of rolling tobacco in one hand and beer in the other, Kote, Louise, Arthur, Lancelot and Julien (they chose their own pseudonyms), students of letters or sociology, talk “social struggles…