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, par CALFUQUIR Julian-Nicolas
France’s elections in July handed a surprise first place to the New Popular Front, which is now demanding the right to govern. To really change the country, it needs to broaden its base of support among nonvoters and the working class.
Lucie Castets (L), candidate of the New Popular Front for (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The main lesson of the first results of this second round is the setback suffered by the Rassemblement national and its allies. The defeat of the hundreds of fascist, racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic and ultra-racist candidates put forward by the RN is a huge relief for racialized people, (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
These general elections confirm the appalling danger of the far right, which is obtaining historically high scores. These scores are a combination of the development of nationalism and racism in certain sections of the population, the growing support of the ruling classes for the far right, (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, FLEY Anaïs
Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for France’s Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA), spoke to Anaïs Fley on 27 June 2024 on the current political situation in the country (before the second round of parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024 at which the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) emerged as the (…)
, by STETLER Harrison
The New Popular Front represents the French left’s best chance to block Marine Le Pen’s path. But a purge of candidates in its biggest force, France Insoumise, is troubling its ranks — and highlights the need for more democratic decision-making.
A supporter holds a placard during an open-air (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The NPA-l’Anticapitaliste eadership met on Tuesday evening and unanimously decided to respond positively to the call from the 7 organizations that initiated the Popular Front Front populaire. At a time when the RN and its allies are in a position to take power, the Popular Front offers hope for (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The result of these European elections is a thunderclap. With Macron announcing the dissolution of the National Assembly, it is vital that the whole of the left - the parties, the unions and all the organisations of the workers’ movement - meet and mobilise. We propose that, in the towns, in the (…)
, by STETLER Harrison
France’s Parti Socialiste is on the rise ahead of the EU elections, under lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann. He’s appealing to disappointed Macron voters — but his campaign is also squarely aimed at killing off the alliance of France’s left-wing parties.
Less than two weeks before voters (…)
, par NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The forthcoming European elections must be an opportunity to express popular anger against Macronism and contribute to the fightback against the danger of the Rassemblement National (National Rally - far-right). That’s why for several months now, the NPA has been proposing that, on this (…)
, by PRINCIPE Michael
REVOLUTION, ENZO TRAVERSO’s impressive engagement with revolutionary theory, practice and imagery, is filled with noteworthy insights and nuanced connections between ideas and events that will cause the reader — even when familiar with the subjects — to pause, reflect and reconsider the (…)
, by LE MOAL Patrick
La France insoumise (LFI) now occupies a central place in the French political left, centred on the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It has succeeded, on the basis of the results of the 2022 presidential election, in regrouping in Nupes (Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale - New (…)
, by DREANO Bernard
Do the twelve-point “peace plan” announced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the statements by Brazilian President Lula on his way to Beijing, suggesting that the Ukrainians “give up” Crimea in order to negotiate, herald a “window of opportunity” for opening some form of negotiation regarding the (…)
, by SABADO François
After the implosion of the NPA, François Sabado, former leader of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR/Revolutionary Communist League), who had thought about how to go beyond the LCR in 2009, makes a critical assessment and looks back on the significance of the revolutionary Marxist (…)
, by STETLER Harrison
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise claimed to replace old political parties using ad hoc structures based on “consensus.” But battles over its post-Mélenchon future have pitched this model into crisis — and show the need for real democratic structures.
La France Insoumise (LFI), the (…)
, by LARRACHE Antoine
Philippe Poutou’s campaign, backed by the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA), in the 2017 French presidential election was a small success: in the televised debate of 5 April, we gained a certain notoriety in the confrontation with the right and the extreme right, Fillon and Le Pen. We (…)
, by EGIREUN Josu
Taking stock of the fourth congress of France’s Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA) in 2018, León Cremieux wrote the following: “The Fourth Congress of the NPA has ended leaving a situation which is open and, at the same time, closed. The next few months will tell in which direction it evolves.” (…)
, by DURAND Cédric, KEUCHEYAN Razmig
La France Insoumise party is at a critical moment of transformation. In this article, Razmig Keucheyan and Cédric Durand outline the steps LFI must take to preserve and grow its political project.
La France Insoumise is undergoing a transformation. From an agile movement geared to electoral (…)
, par NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The congress of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (New Anticapitalist Party) took place on 9-10-11 December. It resulted in a separation of the party. The first statement published was adopted by the platform winning 48.5% of the votes. The second by the platform obtaining 45.5% of the votes. (…)
, by Tendence Coatsy
“A new imperialism threatens world peace, Russian imperialism” writes Edwy Plenel, a founder of the investigative site Mediapart. “Born out of the wreckage of the Soviet Union” this is an “aggressive synthesis of Stalinist Communism and Great Russian Tsarism.” Its politics are moulded by “the (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one short period in a long life dedicated to (…)
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