In summer 2024 France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided
thanks to a New Popular Front of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader Jean-Luc
Mélenchon. It won the most seats in the snap parliamentary elections running on a radical
progressive inclusive agenda in large part inspired by Mélenchon’s presidential programme.
Now the People! details his vision of revolution in our time. In this book Mélenchon
embarks on a survey of human history from its earliest moments to the crisis- ridden present.
He outlines his vision for a new strategy for radical parties to reach the highest levels of
government and peacefully transform the capitalist system: a citizens’ revolution. In this
revolution individuals come together to form a single politically mobilised people. They
assert their power over the collective conditions of urbanised life against the oligarchy that
still controls them.
