2024-02-12 22:50:00
Louis Aragon, Michel Polnareff, Joséphine Baker… Big names have passed through the Maison du peuple in La Chaux-de-Fonds. This emblematic place has just turned 100 years old.
This institution was created by the workers’ movement and inaugurated on February 9 and 10, 1924.
Since then, the socialist party and the trade unions have left the building, which only really becomes popular once more for one weekend a year, during the Ludesco festival. But until 1950, the place was a particularly lively center of the workers’ world and left-wing debates.
Artists take over the social fight
Then politics gave way to artists and singers, the Workers’ Circle renting its hall to alleviate its cash flow problems.
Sandrine Zaslawsky, librarian and author of a documentary file dedicated to the Maison du peuple, told us this story which begins with “the workers’ trilogy” and which culminates in 1982 in the purchase of the building by the City.
The rest remains to be written… /vco
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