Member of Parliament for France Insoumise in Seine-Saint-Denis and President of the Observatory of the Far Right, Thomas Portes, a former railway unionist, has been leading the fight against the far right, racism and police violence for years. Since 7 October 2023, he has been one of the leading French figures in the fight against genocide in Gaza and in defence of the Palestinian people. Deeply committed to the right of peoples to self-determination, he travelled to Rojava in January 2025 to lend his support to the Kurdish people as President of the Kurdish Study Group at the National Assembly.