Book. Economist specializing in IT, Jean-Christophe Le Duigou constructed his life “on horseback” between the CGT and the French Communist Party. Secretary common of the central finance federation, member of the confederal workplace from 1999 to 2009, this Breton near Bernard Thibault, appointed to the Council of State by Jean-Marc Ayrault in 2013, led a mirrored image with out complacency and with out taboos on commerce unionism.
His e-book A protracted story. Trade unionism, the intense proper and democracy (Arcane 17, 228 pages, 20 euros) is a powerful invitation to “return to the offensive” in opposition to the intense proper and “build a rampart” to forestall the risk from coming true within the 2027 presidential election. “Neither moral condemnation nor local activism, he emphasizes, do not represent sufficient and effective antidotes. »
After sixty years of personal commitment, Jean-Christophe Le Duigou continues to speak about “National Front” (FN). “This party, he writes,is in reality anti-national, since it divides social rights based on ethnic considerations and propagates anti-union, anti-social and anti-democratic ideas. (…) Trade unionism must be concerned with warning of the danger, the harmfulness of the FN. Tomorrow it will be too late! »
The approach of the former director of the CGT Confederal Center for Economic and Social Studies is educational. Without explicitly mentioning security and immigration, he revisits the subjects of concern and anger of the working electorate who vote for the National Rally (RN): taxation, pensions, work, public service, industrial policy, employment, the social question, artificial intelligence and ecological transition.
Unionism losing influence
Jean-Christophe Le Duigou recommends “equal taxation of labor and capital, strengthening the progressiveness of income tax, reform of corporate tax, reduction of contributions from the poorest households, taxation of speculative income, reinforced fight against tax fraud”. He judges that the tax reduce, defended by the RN, is “very demagogic”.
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