After your candidacy for municipal elections, your political movement, Rennes commune, is preparing to launch the political school, a training course that you present as being intended to “train citizens for commitment and activism”.
The Political School will open its doors in October in Rennes. It will be free and independent. This is a great first in the history of the Breton capital. We would like to welcome a first equal class of around twenty people, primarily young people from priority neighborhoods, to train them theoretically and practically in politics. They want to participate in changing society? Let’s give them the intellectual weapons to do it, concretely.
What is it to say?
On a theoretical level, it is a question of offering them some intellectual tools, historical benchmarks and on the great struggles of the left. We will discuss the history of social movements, the place of working-class neighborhoods, anti-racism, feminism… On a practical level, the Political School will instill the basics of activism. How to manage door-to-door? What digital communication? We will also focus on questions related to electoral campaigns. How is it organized on an administrative and financial level? We know that these subjects are often a barrier to commitment. So in reality, it’s not that complicated.
In 2019, when I lived near Paris, I initiated Frap (Training for Responsibility and Political Action, Editor’s note), in Bondy. In the last municipal elections, several former students of this school – which still exists but in which I no longer intervene – were candidates. We want to use this feedback for Rennes.
You indicate that this school will be independent… It will not be independent from Rennes commune.
It is independent of all political parties. It will not be financed by them, nor by the communities. For the rest, it is an extension of what was posed by Rennes commune during the municipal elections.
We noted that the political field remained closed to a large part of the population, who wanted to get involved but did not have a suitable framework. All the parties elected to the municipal council are lost on this. Rennes commune fills a big void, as he did during his campaign, by allowing personalities from the neighborhoods to present themselves. It’s not about fighting the far right with grand speeches. We need to expand the scope of the left. What this should do in France, we are doing in Rennes.
You have just opened registrations. They last all summer. Can we find out when the courses will take place, who will give them and where?
The start of the school year will take place in October. Classes will take place on Sunday afternoons for 16 to 20 sessions. They will be provided by several speakers. The program is quite strong. As for the place, we have the keys, but we still have the surprise…
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