Fête de l'Humanité

As fête de l' Humanité, colloquially fête de l' Huma is called in French each year on the second weekend held in September in favor of left Fixed Press newspaper L'Humanité. They mobilize every year hundreds of thousands of spectators and participants.

History

The first festival of Humanité was held in September 1930 Park Sacco and Vanzetti in Bezons instead. The aim was to increase the circulation of the then central organ of the French Communist Party (PCF ) and achieve a surplus which should benefit the newspaper, and to support striking miners. The success was modest at first, there were only about 1,000 paying visitors.

The festival but was continued and in 1936 at the time of the Popular Front were the first big concerts. There were more than 300,000 visitors. After wartime interruption in 1945, about one million people took a in the Bois de Vincennes, where the party up to and including 1956 was its location. Then it took place in the banlieue rouge in different places.

The festival is now divided into different "rooms", with music stages, a " book town ", stalls of various political organizations and befriended left movements, art exhibitions etc.

The festival was in 1945 a model for similar events in Italy ( Festa de l' Unità ) and the Vienna Volksstimmefest. There are also held small parties of the same name in various French provincial cities.