RENVERSER LA TABLE avec Victoire Tuaillon – Comment désarmer ceux qui veulent la guerre ?

“Capitalism carries within itself war as clouds carry the storm,” warned Jean Jaurès in the early twentieth century. Following the economic crises of our century, “rearmament” is on everyone's lips once more. The war economy is imposed through austerity, empires are militarizing, France remains the second largest arms seller on the planet, and the destruction of Gaza continues. In the face of this martial normalization, how can we reconnect with a forgotten tradition: that of social struggles standing up against conquering nationalism, uniforms, and the sacred union?

Pierre Douillard-Lefèvre knows what he is talking about. Mutilated by an LBD rubber bullet in 2007 as a high school student, he has dedicated his research for twenty years to the militarization of policing and the rise of authoritarianism, standing alongside those injured by police and activists opposing the arms industry. A social science researcher, illustrator, and freelance journalist, he is the author of, among other works, Maudite soit la guerre (Éditions Divergences), a manual of anti-militarist resistance drawing on the experiences of past and present resisters: “There has never been so much militarist rhetoric, and so little anti-militarist counter-speech,” he warns.

At his side are activists from the Guerre à la Guerre coalition, which since January 2025 has brought together twenty-four organizations (from Soulèvements de la Terre to Les Inverti·es and Tsedek) to, in their own words, “disarm the machines of war.”