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Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate to become the next president of France, is meeting the press at the Jean Jaurs Foundation in central Paris.

Jaurs, an historian and socialist leader who lived in late 18th and early 19th century Paris, is considered one of the founders of what would become modern French socialism.

But, now, Hidalgo may be presiding over the party's collapse.

She is not used to being such an underdog.

In 2020 she was elected mayor of Paris for a second six-year-term in an alliance with the Greens. And she's become something of an international superstar for having done so much to make her city a model for a greener and cleaner urban future.

Paris has carved up roads to squeeze in bike lanes and trees, opened routes along the banks of the River Seine to cyclists and pedestrians. By 2024, a huge chunk of the heart of Paris will be car-free. By 2026 more than 170,000 trees will be planted across the city, and by 2030, 50 percent of the city is set to be covered by planted areas.

And as a presidential candidate, she's insisted that she's the only candidate who can unite the French left.

Yet the evidence suggests otherwise.

In the run up to the first round of voting in April six other leftist candidates are running and four of them are beating her in the polls. Hidalgo is garnering a meagre two percent of the vote (according to a 22 February 22 Ifop survey).

Mainstream French newspapers have described her as unelectable, a dying star, and the most frequent question she faces is, why doesn't she drop out of the race?

"I am confident that the dynamic will change," Hidalgo told Euobserver at the Jaurs foundation event in early February. "People know that I am a doer and stand by my word," she said.

That may be part of the problem: her marquee policies have earned her contempt and admiration in equal measure.

There are many French voters in rural areas where there are long commutes with high levels of dependency on cars. And they do not share Hidalgo's cosmopolitan outlook and environmentalist priorities.

In many cases these are regions where the Yellow Vests protest movement of 2018 gained traction after president Emmanual Macron, in an early misstep in his presidency, moved to increase fuel taxes.

Hidalgo says Macron fumbled that fuel tax decision. But she stands by the "absolute necessity" of acting on fossil fuels and she says that allowing "cars to keep destroying the environment and our citizen's lungs would be a crime."

Hidalgo, who was born in Spain and became a naturalised French citizen at age 14, also continues to vaunt traditional leftist ideals that include actively fighting bigotry and xenophobia.

"I do not believe in abandoning our ideals," she said. "I defend social justice and solidarity. Anti-migrant, wall-building positions are not compatible with me."

To be sure, Hidalgo is not solely responsible for the party's downfall.

In the 2017 presidential election, Socialist candidate Benot Hamon scored only 6.2 percent in the first round of voting.

And during president Francois Hollande's presidency from 2012 to 2017, the French Socialist Party already was fracturing into sharply polarised radical left and more centrist wings.

Hamon was supported by leftist socialists, while the centrists backed then prime minister Manual Valls a strong proponent of law-and-order and other policies more commonly associated with the right wing of politics.

Valls had presidential aspirations, too. But when he crashed out of the socialist primaries in 2017, he refused to support Hamon. Valls instead opted for Macron, a former socialist minister, and his start-up pro-European party, La Republique En Marche.

Valls, who was also born in Spain, then left France, unsuccessfully running for mayor of Barcelona. He now is back in Paris and unapologetic about his choices.

"C'est fini, there is no future for a party with outdated ideas," Valls said of the French socialists under Hidalgo. Europe needs to protect itself and "not be afraid of walls and barbed wire," Valls, who was speaking at a bistro in central Paris, told a small group of journalists.

Now Valls seems to be open to a position in the government that emerges from the April presidential elections, where currently Macron is a strong favourite to prevail for a second five-year term.

"France needs to look forward, and of course I would like to contribute in one way or another," said Valls.

To be sure, social democracy has been strengthening in other parts of Europe, such as Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Scandinavian countries.

And those signs of rejuvenation also help to explain Hidalgo's stubborn optimism.

Hidalgo says she takes particular inspiration from Spain where her counterparts in the country's socialist party, the PSOE, are governing in coalition with the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos alliance. She also looks to the German SPD, who are in a coalition in the federal German government with the Greens and liberals.

"We know that many voters want a just, green and feminist leadership," she said. "This has been shown locally and regionally in recent years, where Socialists have a stable support."

"Everyone seems eager to put a nail in the coffin of the Socialist Party but we are here to stay," she insists.

But Valls, the erstwhile prime minister and socialist hardliner, says those models, particularly in Spain, are far from ideal if the French socialists are seeking to rebound.

"A reasonable French Left would take inspiration from the Social Democrats in Sweden or Denmark, a bold left who dares to take measures against migration," said Valls.

When asked if left voters perhaps abandoned the Socialist party because its policies were no longer left at all, but centre-right, he shakes his head.

"The left needed to be reshaped," he said. "I do not believe La Rpublique en Marche is solid either," he said, referring to Macron's party.

"Only the future holds the answer for the French left," he said.

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Recently, some of the countrys most prominent conservative politicians spoke in Orlando, Fla. at the National Conservatism Conference. The dangerous rise of socialism and the overreach of our government quickly took center stage. I was shocked to hear Republican senators argue that the solution to socialism and big government is more government. Especially, greater government control of social media. We need to tread lightly when we work to rein in the platforms that serve as a digital venue for free speech and democratic values across the world.

The Florida legislatures plans to regulate social media platforms are very concerning to me. I understand the frustrations felt by my fellow Republicans toward overzealous tech firms. Still, those regulations will also extend to social media platforms that we love, such as Truth, the new platform that President Donald Trump designed for people like us that believe in freedom.

We only need to look 90 miles off the coast of Miami to see how social media can be used to foster democracy and fight extremism. For more than six decades, the socialist Castro regime has ruled Cuba. They cemented their power by expanding the government and controlling the narrative with state-run media. However, recently Cubans have used social media platforms to promote democracy and push back on Castro-era Communism.

Last summer, Floridians watched on their phones and laptops as Cuban democratic activists took to Twitter to share their grievances against socialism and Communism. Cubans turned to social media in a country where news is tightly controlled and crackdowns against government criticism are common. They coordinated and organized online to protest socialism and to demand democracythe Cuban government could only quiet the protests by shutting off access to the internet.

Cuba is not the only country where activists have used social media to share democratic ideals and coordinate protests against oppressive governments. Protesters in Hong Kong used Facebook and Twitter extensively in their efforts to resist the Chinese Communist Party. In 2011, a viral Facebook post sparked the sentiment that ejected Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic leader of Egypt, from power.

I do not oppose laws and regulations that govern social media companies. The CEOs of social media giants like Twitter and Google have asked the federal government to rework and modernize the legislation that protects privacy and free speech online. Unfortunately, legislatures across the country, and here in Florida, have proposed a series of bills that would regulate tech firms and remove an effective tool that promotes freedom.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio argued at the National Conservatism Conference that people do not want a woke socialist America. It leaves them with no voice in our politics and no answers to their problems. Rubio is right. As the daughter of Cuban immigrants, I know firsthand just how dangerous socialism and government overreach can be and that the freedom we have to spread ideas and quick communication through the use of social media are the best tools we have to protect American ideals and stop extremism.

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Abortion protester in a scene from Progressive Socialism, the new production of K. Piroto.| Photo: Bigstock

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According to producer K. Piroto, who gave us this exclusive interview directly from his home in Belford Roxo, in Baixada Fluminense, the story of Progressive Socialism repeats some elements known to fans of the franchise, such as the search for utopian equality through violence as explicit as possible.

The novelty, according to K. Piroto, is due to the use of a new technology, called Diversity, which he ordered from the famous Ideology Studios. Thanks to advances in science, nowadays everything is much easier. In the days of National Socialism we had the radio, trains and Zyklon B, but today we have the Internet and cancel culture. So everything is much cleaner and more subtle. The fans will love it!, predicts the always optimistic K. Piroto, creating suspense, but not too much.

There is still a lot of speculation about the stars who will star in Progressive Socialism. One sure name, however, is that of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. For now, we are also working on the search for an L, a G, a B, a T, a Q and a + capable of telling this beautiful story of intolerance disguised as tolerance, says K. Piroto, putting his hands to his mouth. as soon as you realize you gave a spoiler of whats to come. Asked if it is possible to have a Brazilian, Brazilian or Brazilian in the cast, K. Piroto says yes, for sure, but does not reveal names.

K. Piroto takes advantage of the relaxed moment in the interview to give more details about the production. Details that this journal publishes with total exclusivity. For example, anyone who thought that after the dramatic finale of Marxist Socialism Communism had died buried under the rubble of the Berlin Wall will be in for a surprise right in the opening scenes of Progressive Socialism. Communism is our big star. Our great reference. I couldnt leave him out of this one, says K. Piroto. The script is still being finalized, but the idea is, at the beginning of the story, to show Communism disguised as the Common Good. With that, I hope to attract a younger audience, says the millennial producer.

)K. Piroto, however, rules out using Swastika, the star of the controversial National Socialism. Times are different. And we know that the Swastika is not in a good phase, he says. The idea is to use the ideals and values that marked National Socialism, but employing less stigmatized symbols. There are many possibilities. Perhaps the Carbon Footprint could make a romantic pairing with Communism. Why not? What counts is creativity, says K. Piroto.

At ease in your mansion, in the At the end of the interview, an animated K. Piroto says, with his unmistakable accent, that he has a revelation to make to Brazilians. Im working with Embrafilme partners on a totally green-yellow production, he says, and then bursts out laughing. I lie, oh, of course I lie. For am I not the King of Lies? The truth is that the production is red too, he says, showing his fangs.

With the provisional title of A Vingana da Jararaca, K. Pirotos hope is to cause a lot of destruction and death around here, in a version that would condense the narratives of Marxist Socialism, National Socialism and even Progressive Socialism. The partnership with Pet Produes is taken for granted. As far as I know, our legion of lawyers even managed to obtain funding via the Rouanet Law, says an excited K. Piroto. Unfortunately, it wouldnt be his first successful production here.

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In Providence on Sunday an event to mark the 174th anniversary of the publication of the The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was underway at Red Ink Community Library when a number of self-identified Nazis, holding a red swastika flag, began banging on the windows screaming obscenities.

Due to the publication of The Communist Manifesto, February 21 is celebrated internationally as Red Books Day and the Nazis apparently came in response to this event which was advertised on Facebook. Video from both inside and outside Red Ink Library shows nearly two dozen Nazis wearing masks to hide their faces.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza made the following statement:

Providence is home to diverse people, cultures, and ideas and our city has no room for hate-filled actions meant to intimidate and cause fear. My administration is committed to making every resident feel safe and protecting the rights of people who are gathering peacefully. Anyone with information regarding the incident last night involving a swastika flag is encouraged to contact our police department.

Update: Uprise RI has the Providence Police Department report from the incident last night:

On Monday February 21st 2022 at approximately 18:40 hours, District 8 and 9 received information and were advised a group of Neo Nazis were proceeding to the Red Ink Community Library (130 Camp Street) to interrupt the individuals who were inside attending a reading.

At 1845 the District 8/9 cars proceeded to 130 Camp Street. While responding dispatch advised police they were receiving calls for an active disturbance. Upon arrival we observed approximately 15-20 subjects (from the Neo Nazi group) standing outside and striking the front window of the Red Ink Community Library with their hands. As soon as all of the District 8 and 9 cars arrived on scene with the overhead emergency lights on, the Neo Nazi crowd began to disperse. Moments later the crowd of subjects walked to their vehicles parked on adjacent streets and left the area. Police did not observe any damage to the building.

Car-282 (Ptlm. Lugo) remained on scene until 2015 hours to ensure no further disturbances.

Sergeant Groot was on scene.

Body Worn camera was activated.

During the last few minutes of the reading, as can be seen on the Facebook livestream, one can hear the Nazis chanting, rattling the windows and screaming obscenities.

You commie piece of shit! shouted one Nazi. You fucking commie piece of shit! Commie Scum! Shut your goddamn mouth you fucking whore! Commie Scum off our streets!

Video taken of the Nazis from inside the library and posted on Twitter show a clearly visible Nazi flag.

Neighbors alerted the police. After a short time six Providence Police Department vehicles arrived and the Nazis dispersed. See here.

The Black Lives Matter RI PAC responded in a statement:

There is no greater threat to Rhode Island than nazism and white supremacy. Yesterday evening, an organized group of Neo-Nazis that have established themselves throughout Rhode Island terrorized Red Ink Community Library in Providence Ward 3.

Candidates for Providence City Council Ward 3 have responded to the event:

Im saddened and disgusted to learn about the events that took place on Camp Street last night, said Bradly VanDerStad. Our city is better than this. Domestic terrorists have no place in Providence.

Bill Bartholomew did an excellent interview:

Ward 3 Democratic Committee

We, the Ward 3 Democratic Committee, are extremely disturbed that a group of self-identified Nazis, holding a red swastika flag, banged on the windows and screamed obscenities outside of the Red Ink Community Library at 130 Camp Street in the Mt. Hope neighborhood on Monday, February 21, 2022. We condemn the intentions and the actions of this group of Neo-Nazis in no uncertain terms; such hate-filled and intimidating behavior is unacceptable in our community. One of the wonderful aspects of Ward 3 is the variety of ideas and diversity of cultures represented within it. We stand with everyone who embraces acceptance, civil rights, and love over the fomenting and agitation of fear, white supremacy, racism, hate, and violence.

NeverAgain Rhode Island stands in solidarity with the Red Ink Community Library and residents of Mount Hope

We spent Sunday afternoonrallying outside an I.C.E. processing facilityunder construction in Warwick to call attention to Americas cruel immigration policies, and the culture of othering and dehumanization that leads to genocide like the Holocaust.Then on Monday night, ideological remnants of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germanyattacked a leftist libraryin the heart of our community. When we sayNeverAgain is Now, we mean nowthe forces of white supremacy and antisemitism will remain until we defeat them.

Martin Nimollers infamous 1946 confession begins with, First they came for the Communists/And I did not speak out/Because I was not a Communist. We know how his story ends, and the lesson within it is clearall of us must speak out, before there is no one left.

ICE is cloaking its brutality in bureaucracy, but last night we saw the cruelty and malice of this ideology on full display. Their processing facility is just one stop on the road to camps, to deportation, to disappearing from ones home. It is a necessary mechanism in the machine of genocide. The machine doesnt stop, will not stop, until every component is dismantled.

These struggles are all connected.The same hate groupthat targeted and harassed our comrades at Red Ink Library last night have also advocated calling ICE to target and abduct immigrants, in addition to taking hateful action against socialists and Jews.

Please join our allies and Mount Hope community members tomorrow afternoon at Billy Taylor Park on Camp Street at 4pm to stand up against the hatred and bigotry that is the fuel for this machine of genocide.

You can alsodonate to Red Ink Community Library.

In solidarity, NeverAgain Rhode Island

Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) released the following statement:

I am absolutely sickened by the image of a swastika waving in the streets of Providence. Hate groups like neo-Nazisand white supremacists have no place in our city,said Congressman Cicilline. Groups like these and the hatred they spew have too often led to terrible violence. The rise of neo-Nazis, white supremacy, and antisemitismin our country is not something we can afford to ignore.This hatred and last nights attack are a scourge on our community, and we must all condemn it in the strongest terms.

This group of Nazis may be the Rhode Island chapter of NSC-131, the same group that has been holding banner drops on highway overpasses from north of Boston to at least as south as Cranston Rhode Island. More information on NSC here.

Note: After this story went to press, Uprise RI received an email taking [minor] fault with the title, which includes a line from Martin Niemllers First they Came for the Socialists.

The poem that many know as beginning with First they came for the socialists, did not begin that way. It really started with First they came for the communists.

Our red-baiting American leaders in the mid-20th century, who wanted to paint Communists as never-a-victim-always-a-terror changed the poem to make it a more palatable one to our McCarthyist society at the time, focusing just on Socialists, erasing the fact that Communists were killed by the Nazis for their views as well. For Communists to ever be victims was unacceptable, even if it was historically true.

I apologize for going on at such great length, but just wanted to send this your way in case it is relevant to any follow-up articles. People still like to play this whole Socialism I dont like, but its okay, but COMMunism, thats gotta be out of bounds game, and my hope is that all of us together can fight back against that.

Heres an article (a bit lengthy, unfortunately) that explores this editorial choice, and the anti-communist reasons behind it.

Uprise RI has made an Access to Public Records Request to the City of Providence for the police body cam footage.

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Nazis interrupt book reading in Providence: First they came for the socialists... - Uprise RI

OPINION:

What could be more working-class than truck drivers? Spending 12 straight hours on the road, driving a big rig, isnt for sissies. And Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to the manner born (the son of a prime minister), with his beautifully styled hair, has the audacity to call them fascists because they protest his arbitrary COVID-19 restrictions.

Now, our own Freedom Convoy is forming up in Barstow, California. It could be on the road as early as Wednesday. According to organizers, more than 38,000 people have signed up so far.

Theyre putting up fencing around the Capitol again, ahead of President Bidens State of the Union address. The same that was in place for most of last year in response to the insurrection of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Will the Army Corps of Engineers begin blowing up bridges leading to Washington to quell an imaginary uprising? And to think, we used to call it First Amendment speech.

Mr. Biden will use the Capitol Police, as Mr. Trudeau used Canadian cops, to quell demonstrations visions of the czars Cossacks swinging their sabers at marchers.

Old Joe and Young Justin are cut from the same cloth.

In 2020, the presidents campaign styled him lunch bucket Joe. Mr. Biden went to Washington in 1973, at age 29. And there he stayed, and stayed, and stayed. The president and physical labor are not well-acquainted. Mr. Trudeau entered the House of Commons at age 36.

In the fairy tale version of socialism, socialists are champions of the working class thus, the communist symbol is a hammer and sickle representing those who toil on farms and in factories.

In reality, Marxists/socialists gave up on the proletariat a century ago when they refused to join the revolution.

This gave rise to cultural Marxism, formulated by Antonio Gramsci, who said workers were being held back by faith and family. Like Soviet communism, progressives wokeism is aimed at deconstructing both.

This contempt for the working class started with Marx himself, who loved the proletariat but only at a safe distance.

During his 61 years on earth, he never set foot in a factory. His collaborator, Friedrich Engels, offered to take him on a tour of one of his families factories. Marx refused. He didnt want reality to intrude on his fantasies. He preferred to spend his time reading statistical tables in the library of the British Museum and turning out stultifying tracts.

Revolutionaries are invariably drawn from the middle or upper-middle class from Vladimir Lenin to Fidel Castro to Hugo Chavez to Mr. Trudeau.

Workers sense the hypocrisy of their would-be liberators. When I was a student at Boston University in the 1960s, the local (Maoist) Progressive Labor Party leader ordered her cadre to join a picket line with striking GE workers. They reported back: Emily, these people hate us. They hit us and spit on us.

When his soulmate Castro died in 2016, Mr. Trudeau waxed eloquently on the love the Cuban people had for their commandant to such an extent that he ruled them for 50 years without ever standing for election and sent a million of them into exile.

The typical socialist has never done hard, tedious or boring labor. Most have a post-graduate liberal arts degree. At age 30, theyre still living at home. If they ever marry, they wont have children. They think the earth is overpopulated and diapers are a capitalist conspiracy.

They fret over saving the planet, saving the trees, saving the whales, saving endangered species anything but saving the people.

Like climate change, COVID-19 has been a godsend for the left, another opportunity to coerce people, reallocate resources and get them used to taking orders and living like the proles of Orwells 1984. The faceless masses are here.

Many Trump supporters are drawn from the lower end of the middle class. Youre more likely to find them on a gun range or at a motorcycle rally than slapping bumper-stickers on their electric cars that urge us to Think globally, act locally.

In 1917, during the October Revolution, protestors were in the streets of Moscow, calling for an end to the Romanov monarchy. This time it could be patriots in Americas streets calling for the restoration of small r republican government.

Power to the People was a slogan from the era of protest. Guess what? We are the People.

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist.

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