The 88th edition of the Fête de l'Huma! This year, for the second year running, the cultural, militant and popular event is taking over the Essonne department, with three not-to-be-missed days on Friday September 15, Saturday September 16 and Sunday September 17, 2023. In addition to the concerts, the Fête de l'Humanité offers a host of debates and events, as detailed below by day!
Every year for almost 90 years, activists, associations, politicians and music fans have gathered at the Fête de l'Huma. This year, the event returns to Essonne with three new days on Friday September 15, Saturday September 16 and Sunday September 17, 2023.
On the menu? Music , of course, with concerts by Bigflo & Oli, Angèle and Mass Hysteria, but also comedy shows and live art, not forgetting a host of debates in the Agora, the Book Village, the World Village and the Village des Territoires Solidaires. Find out more about the program of debates and events on September 15, 16 and 17.
Fête de l'Huma 2023: program of debates and events
Friday, September 15, 2023
- Place Jean Jaurès
- 12:00: André Lejarre - Retrospective
- Village du Monde
- 12h00 : Figures of wrestling
- 12h00: The Jacqueries
- 5:00 pm: Secours populaire français and its partners respond to a world in precarious conditions
- 7:30 pm: Inauguration of the World Village
- 9:00 pm: Solidarity evening with Turkish progressives
- Book Village
- 3:15pm: Opening of the Book Village
- 3:30 pm: Carte blanche with Jean-Numa Ducange
- 4:00 pm: Presentation of l'Humanité special issue: 1793, Robespierre et le peuple debout (1793, Robespierre and the standing people)
- 4:45pm: Carte blanche for Audrey Millet
- 5:15pm: Around Lucien Sève
- 6:00 pm: Carte blanche with Boris Gobille and Eugénia Palieraki
- Agora
- 12h00: Fred Sochard's "Portraits
- 2:00 pm: War in Ukraine, how to win the peace?
- 3:00 pm: Banlieues populaires, outre-mer, ruralité : quelle politique pour les territoires oubliés de la République ?
- 4:00 pm: Drought, megafires, floods, heat... How can France adapt to global warming?
- 17h00: Have social networks killed public debate?
- 6:00 pm: Backseat live
- Esplanade Mélinée and Missak Manouchian
- 12h00: Picasso - Aragon, Story of a complicity
- Science and digital space
- 2:00 pm: What digital tools for activism?
- 3:45pm: Inauguration of the "Women in science and technology" exhibition
- 4:00 pm: Women in scientific fields and jobs
- 6:00 pm: Open-source software for public and government services
- Social Forum
- 3:00 pm: Social and tax fraud
- 4:30 pm: What impact will pension reform have on the local civil service?
- Village des Territoires Solidaires
- 5:00 pm: The right to health: who pays the bill?
- 6:00 pm: Pesticides: let's stop the poisoning!
- Les Amis de l'Humanité
- 7:00 pm: Inauguration of the Espace des Amis
- 8:30pm: Evening event "50 years after the death of Salvador Allende, under the aegis of Pablo Neruda".
Saturday, September 16, 2023
- Village des Territoires Solidaires
- 10:00 am: SSE, democracy and emancipation
- 11:30am: Cuba, the urgent need to lift the embargo
- 12:30: The drug market versus social protection
- 1:30 pm: Cooperatives as a counter-model to start-ups?
- 2:30 pm: La grande évasion, un pognon de dingue, pas pour tout le monde. How can mutuals resist?
- 3:30 pm: From field to plate, earning a fair price for food.
- 4:30 pm: The well-being of teachers, in France and around the world
- 17:30: Faced with multiple crises, local councillors on all fronts
- Book Village
- 10h00: Françafrique, a French neo-colonialism
- 11h00: Carte blanche for Livres en lutte
- 11:30am: Thrillers, history and politics
- 12:15pm: Carte blanche for Violaine de Fillipis
- 12:45pm: Le Puys du Faux, or the instrumentalization of history
- 1:30 pm: Carte blanche with Nicolas Offenstadt
- 2:00 pm: 140th anniversary of Marx's death: "Taking sides and taking sides".
- 2:45pm: Carte Blanche with Yves Pagès
- 3:15 pm: Carte blanche to Evelyne Ternant
- 3:30 pm: Carte blanche to Gérard Mauger
- 4:15pm: Exploitation and domination
- 5:00 pm: Carte blanche to Jean-Claude Zancarini
- 5:30 pm: Rendez-vous children's literature
- 6:30pm: Bulles d'Humanité award ceremony
- Agora
- 10h00: What remains of class voting?
- 11:00am: DNA at the heart of the human adventure: all migrants
- 11:45am: Who still wants teachers?
- 1:00 pm: Europe: fighting the return of austerity
- 2:00 pm: Back to work: interview with Sophie Binet, CGT General Secretary
- 3:00 pm: Extraordinary session of the French National Assembly: immigration, inflation... the Agora votes on Nupes deputies' bills
- 4:00 pm: Faced with the far right, how can the left regain cultural hegemony?
- 5:00 pm: The trial of the Fifth Republic
- 6:15pm: Property is always theft!
- Friends of Humanité
- 10h00: Meeting with Lauréline Fontaine, about her book La Construction maltraitée
- 1:30pm: Debate with Chapelle Darblay trade unionists
- 3:00 pm: "Le méprisants de la République" ("The scorners of the Republic")
- 5:00 pm: Carte blanche with Bernard Friot
- 6:30pm: Debate with GM&S workers
- World Village
- 10:30 a.m.: Against the water war, the fundamental sharing of the resource
- 11:45am: French arms sales: democratic control to be conquered
- 13h00 : With the extreme religious right in power in Israel, what future for the State of Palestine?
- 2:00 pm: Ukraine: Is peace possible?
- 4:00 pm: Carte blanche to Chris Smalls
- 4:40pm: Iran: where does the Iranian youth movement stand?
- 6:20pm: Solidarity evening: Fifty years since the 1973 coups d'état in Chile and Uruguay
- 7:30 pm: Chile meets Vietnam: an unprecedented musical fusion
- Social Forum
- 10:45am: What future for public broadcasting?
- 1:30 pm: Just transition, energy prices: a complex equation?
- 3:00 pm: Freight: what's in it for the public?
- 4:30 pm: The company of tomorrow
- 6:45pm: My manager is an algorithm
- Science and digital space
- 11:00am: The climate challenge: what planned development for scientific and industrial sectors in France?
- 12:00: Progressistes magazine's solar observatory: a journey 150 million kilometers from the Festival!
- 1:30 pm: The place of women in the digital world
- 3:00 pm: Understanding the quantum revolution. What place for science in society?
- 4:30 pm: Divorce or marriage: what future for the science-society couple?
- 6:00 pm: Public services and free software: for whom, for what?
- Humanité Readers' Society
- 2:00 pm: Working together to ensure proper distribution of the daily press by the French Post Office
- Angela Davis stage
- 6:00 pm: Meeting with Fabien Gay
- Espace Jack Ralite
- 7:30 pm: Discussion about Julian Assange
Sunday September 17, 2023
- Les Amis de l'Humanité
- 10h00: Why the left lost and how it can win
- 11:00 am: Media, freedom under threat
- 2:30 pm: Alone in the universe?
- Book Village
- 10h00: Reacting to the instrumentalization of the Middle Ages
- 11:15am: Towards a renewal of trade unionism?
- 12:00: Around Monique Wittig
- 1:15pm: Meeting with Bernard Minier and Victor Del Arbol
- 2:00 pm: 100th anniversary of the birth of Jacques Stephen Alexis
- 3:00 pm: Carte blanche with André Chassaigne and Maurice Lemoine
- 3:30 pm: American noir and the witch hunt
- 4:15pm: Carte blanche with Galien and Laurent Lefeuvre
- Agora
- 10:30am: Artificial intelligence, nightmare or revolution?
- 11:15am: Police violence: when order overflows
- 12:15pm: From Sainte Solline to fist actions, what do the forms of action of the climate movement reveal?
- 13h15: How to revolutionize work?
- 2:00 pm: Fabien Roussel and Edouard Philippe face off in the new political season
- 3:00 p.m.: Medicines, health delivered to the appetites of pharmaceutical companies
- 4:00 pm: Sport, a political battle for women
- Village des Territoires Solidaires
- 11:00am: Women, the forgotten ones in healthcare?
- 2:00 pm: Water in all its states, the urgent need to share blue gold
- World Village
- 11h00: Mayotte, a colonial zone testing French migration policies?
- 1:00 pm: Support for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
- 13h45: Why is it urgent to recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Rasd)?
- 2:00 pm: Solidarity with the peoples of the world
- 4:00 pm: Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
- 4:45pm: Turkey. Interview with Can Dündar
- Social Forum
- 12h00: The alternative: what kind of energy mix and public service for fairer tariffs and an ecological transition based on solidarity?
- 1:30 pm: Digital sovereignty
- 3:00 pm: Olympic Games 2024: the social charter put to the test
- Humanité readers' society
- 2:30 pm: Faced with the major financial owners of the media, how can we guarantee the independence of the general information and opinion press?
- Science and digital space
- 3:00 pm: Artificial intelligence: light and shade
