This open letter in response to the 'Manifesto of One Hundred' (October 31) has been signed by over 2,000 French scholars and was originally published on November 5 in Le Monde.
The sole beneficiary is the far Right leader who helped turn laïcité from a fine democratic value into a justification for prejudice and discrimination.
This manufactured conflict is dependent upon a curious, neoconservative redefinition of laïcité and a libertarian fetishisation of absolutist free speech.
Now the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is due to become international law, nuclear powers need to engage constructively on nuclear disarmament.
Ten months into the epidemic and it is the virus and the right who are in control. The left can’t just wait in hope for the world after to be different.
