Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HORN Gerd-Rainer
SINCE MID-JANUARY 2023 France is experiencing its most significant wave of social movement mobilization since the heady days of May/June 1968.
Though clearly of a lesser magnitude than those of 55 years ago, the ongoing demonstrations and strikes make clear that France remains one of the (...)
, by RANCIERE Jacques
While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron’s law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people’s demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression.
In recent weeks, Emmanuel (...)
, by TOYE Brent
France has always had a slippery status within comparative political economy. Once upheld as an ideal model of a planned capitalist economy during the Les Trente Glorieuses of the postwar period, the Fifth Republic has since been treated as somewhat of a laggard following the infamous ‘U-turn’ (...)
, by QUIJOUX Maxime
Upon becoming president, Emmanuel Macron promised to make France into a “start-up nation.” But imitating workplace hierarchies has made his government deeply authoritarian — subjecting democratic institutions to the tyranny of the boss.
Elected to the presidency in May 2017, Emmanuel Macron (...)
, by MARTELLI Roger
A close look at Macron’s election, the collapse of the Socialist Party, and the end of a long cycle for the French left.
So Emmanuel Macron has his majority, a smaller one than expected. The opposition is in pieces. The Left has to be rebuilt. As for the new president, he is not at the end (...)
, by BRIANÇON Pierre
The new French president’s aloof leadership style has put his party on course for a big majority — but may be impossible to maintain. Emmanuel Macron thinks power is best exercised when wrapped in a cloud of mystery.
PARIS — The French noticed a radical change in Emmanuel Macron when he (...)
, by SIMON Jacques
François Hollande has hastened the French Socialist Party’s transformation into a vehicle for business interests.
France’s Socialist Party (PS) government is being pummeled by criticism from the Right, the Left, and civil society more broadly. François Hollande’s government’s approval (...)
, by BIRCH Jonah
Before Alexis Tsipras, Europe battered François Mitterrand’s reformist ambitions into a sweeping neoliberal program.
In the story of Greece’s subjugation by European capital, there is a seemingly endless cast of villains. At the top of that list are Angela Merkel and the almost (...)
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