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There are many more articles in the corresponding French section, reflecting the range of discussions and point of views within the French (radical) Left, in addition to article on current political situation. Of course, these are... in French. To reach the French section, click on the “translation” button in the left column.
During his previous election campaign in 2017 Philippe Poutou caused a stir when he advocated disarming the police. He returned to the question of policing on Wednesday 13 October stating “Yes, there is police violence. The police kill, then we can discuss: assassination, murder, accident, (...)
The scale of protests across France this summer against the policies being deployed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic is the price being paid by the head of state for his authoritarian, lying and irresponsible presidency, says Mediapart’s publishing editor Edwy Plenel in this op-ed article. Never, (...)
Dave Kellaway continues his analysis of the recent regional elections in France.
The second round of the French regional and departmental elections took place yesterday (Sunday 27June). Only one in three bothered to vote again but the trends highlighted in our previous article have been (...)
We often hear about discontented French voters turning to Marine Le Pen’s far right, but not about the tens of millions who’ve given up on voting at all. They were the key in yesterday’s regional elections — and they’re the ones the Left has to win.
This week’s French regional elections take place (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the regional elections in France.
France held the first round of the regional elections this Sunday 20th June. According to the initial polling estimates the traditional right-wing party, The Republicans (LR) came out on top ahead of Le Pen’s post-fascist (...)
The French president has imposed a national lockdown, but he still won’t own up to his mistakes and broken promise.
France is in a “race against time” against Covid-19, Emmanuel Macron declared in a television broadcast this week. In an attempt to curb France’s soaring Covid case numbers, Macron (...)
On Monday, a criminal court in Paris handed down its verdict in Nicolas Sarkozy’s corruption trial. The former French president was sentenced to three years in jail – two of them suspended – for bribery and influence-peddling.
This is a legal landmark for the French judicial system for two main (...)
Speaking recently on CNews, France’s equivalent of Fox News, the higher education minister launched an unprecedented attack on the whole French academic community. Frédérique Vidal argued that French academia is “gangrened by Islamo-gauchisme” or “Islamo-leftism”.
Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Mounting a Witch Hunt Against “Islamo-Leftism” in France’s Universities.
In recent years, charges of “Islamo-leftism” have become a common attack line against the Left and anti-racist groups in France, claiming that those who fight racism are themselves sowing racial (...)
Last June, France’s second city voted for the “Marseille Spring,” a left-wing coalition that put an end to two decades of conservative rule. But difficult pandemic conditions — and now the abrupt exit of mayor Michèle Rubirola — have raised questions over its ability to put ordinary citizens in (...)
As France battles the second wave of the Covid19 pandemic, it is telling that much of country’s news is dedicated to other issues as the Macron presidency continues to slide rightward, seemingly regardless of priorities. The cynical use of republican symbols and concepts for cheap politicking is (...)
On Tuesday, France’s National Assembly passed a bill effectively banning citizens from posting videos of police officers. Emmanuel Macron is trampling on historic press freedoms in order to prove himself as a “law-and-order” president — an authoritarian turn which makes a mockery of his claimed (...)
The second round of the French local elections, at the end of June, was bad news for president Emmanuel Macron, whose candidates did very poorly. In response, Macron switched prime ministers, replacing high-profile operator Edouard Philippe with an unknown right winger, Jean Castex, whose (...)
The municipal elections are an important event of French politics. Indeed, after the presidential election, these are the elections that usually benefit from the highest turnout. 35,416 municipal councils were to be elected; however, as a result of the pandemic, they took place under very (...)
On Saturday February 29th, during an emergency meeting of ministers called to discuss the Coronavirus crisis, the French government took the decision to force its bitterly-opposed pension reforms through Parliament without a vote. In adopting the “nuclear option” of invoking Article 49-3 of the (...)
France was paralyzed by strikes on Friday, as workers from train drivers to teachers revolted against Emmanuel Macron’s attack on pensions. While the liberal president fancies himself as a French “Thatcher,” his bid to tear up France’s welfare state now faces its most powerful opposition yet. (...)
France has once again entered a phase of large-scale social confrontation.
A year ago, in November 2018, it was the Yellow Jacket movement that broke out on roundabouts and city streets across the country. Provoked by the government’s decision to introduce a new fuel tax, the movement very (...)
Today’s reactionaries don’t seem to be interested in a new world war, but in a clash between North and South, rich and poor.
Gilbert Achcar’s book The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder came out recently in a third French edition. On this occasion, the author wrote the (...)
Yesterday morning, French police raided the home of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The leftist leader was quick to point the blame at Emmanuel Macron.
It was an alarming sight. On Tuesday, with the eyes of the French press fixed on ceremonies to mark President Emmanuel Macron’s long-awaited cabinet (...)
The Benalla Affair is not about Alexandre Benalla. It is about the French President, and the brash, self-confident manner with which he has blasted through his first year in office.
To travel abroad as an American in 2018 is to serve as a baffled explicator of scandal. No outsider quite (...)
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