After "La Rochelle", the summer university of PS-MJS

Thanks to Matthieu Rouveyre for the picture

During three days, the socialists organized in La Rochelle our summer university. 2500 socialists and between them, 350 members of MJS were there to listen debates organized by MJS about "Republic at the time of Sarkozysme", about employement, and about the French policy in Africa in which i was speaker.

Details of the program

It is quite difficult to have this kind of debate about "Françafrique" in a socialist meeting and it is quite new for the socialists, strongly involved in the past in these policies, and not always in the best way... But a lot of socialists really wanted to debate this issue and we received a lot of greetings to have organized this debate.

Our debate focused on the necessity to get out of this system and to change French policy in Africa. It has to be one of the focus point for the next general elections for the socialist candidate. More democratic control of the Parliament, renegotiation of the military agreements with the African countries, a European view of the policy in Africa, to put an end to the support of dictorships and non-democratical "electoral" processes, a strong reform of the public aid... These points were raised by the different speakers Guillaume Fine, secretary general of Survie, Guy Labertit, national delegate on African issues in PS, and me.

It was very interesting to meet the NGO Survie. It was the first time they speak in a socialist meeting. And we strongly want to strenghten the cooperation between our two organizations. We proposed our help in their will to build a European network (in the European Parliament) to change the policy towards Africa. In the closing ceremony, David Lebon, MJS France president began his speech with strong critics on French Policy in Africa. The struggle against "Françafrique" will be one of the main political point we will push inside PS.

For the second time, we also organized in La Rochelle a report of the international activities of MJS France. We present the campaign "For another constitution" and the report of the MJS France delegation in the last ECOSY summer camp. We also present the Global Progressive Forum in which 40 MJS France members will participate. During this meeting, Mathieu Rouveyre, Responsible of MJS Bordeaux introduce their action in India.