November Ultra, Ebony… More than 1,200 artists launch an appeal to defend creative freedom against the far right and industrial concentration

After recent initiatives from the world of publishing and cinema, more than 1,200 artists are launching an appeal published Thursday June 18 on the Politis media site to “defend creative freedom in the face of threats from the extreme right and industrial concentration“. In the list of signatories of the call, we find November Ultra, Renaud, Bernard Lavilliers, Barbara Pravi, Ebony, IAM and Les Ogres de Barback.

Titles The Call of the 1000: music in resistancethe platform, supported by the Union of Current Music (SMA), is accompanied by the official launch of the collective “Cultures Futures” on Thursday in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at Point Éphèmère. At the origin of this call and this collective, a desire “to warn of the threats to artistic diversity, the emergence of new talents, access to culture throughout the territory and the independence of creation”, can we read in the collective’s press release sent to France Inter.

The signatory artists share their “restlessness” faced with the rise of the far right in the country. “We are watching the 2027 presidential election with concern, we are deeply alarmed by the risk of the country’s official shift to the extreme right and all the reactionary forces and parties at work in this country”they summarize, recalling that culture must be “free, plural and contradictory”.

Ils “affirm the need to defend a cultural model based on the plurality of expressions, freedom of creation and the general interest”. “The time is no longer for simple resistance”write the artists. “We need a common project: a culture based on cooperation rather than concentration, on proximity rather than gigantism, on commons rather than monopolies.”