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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.
Last week, following a series of violent but unrelated incidents in the country, French president Emmanuel Macron told ministers said the government needed to “counter this process of decivilisation”. The expression immediately provoked controversy. In this analysis, Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
The mass uprising against French President Macron’s pension reforms – imposed with incredible hubris, without parliamentary authorization, and in the face of majority (...)
Clearly, France is going through a social crisis and a democratic crisis. It can even reasonably be said that these two crises reflect a regime crisis, that is, an inability of the ruling class, the capitalist class, to continue to exercise power in a normal way by relying on the current (...)
The 6 April saw another day of strikes and demonstrations of the same magnitude as 28 March: according to the unions, there were 2 million people in the streets. There were a large number of blockages and spectacular actions, such as a banner unfurled from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. What (...)
The weekend of March 25 represented a real turning point in the political climate, marked by the violence of police repression organized by the government and its Minister of the Interior Gérard Darmanin, a situation also marked by the maintenance of a high level of mobilization during the day (...)
What’s the current state of the movement initiated in France on 19 January 2023 to obtain the withdrawal of yet another pension counter-reform, and a victory against a widely hated president, and where is it going? To those who imagined a last stand of trade unions incapable of standing in the (...)
With the coup de force of article 49.3 on 16 March, Macron and his government have provoked a new impetus of popular mobilization in all its forms: renewable strikes, blockades, demonstrations and even the movement of university and high school students. But, above all, a real political crisis (...)
“If the planet was a bank, it would have been saved a long time ago.” This slogan of the climate strike takes on its full meaning after the announcements of the Federal Council and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to release 209 billion to save Crédit Suisse (CS) and ensure its purchase by UBS. (...)
Dave Kellaway gives an update on the deepening crisis in France and we translate the latest statement from npa - nouveau parti anticapitaliste.
Yesterday, the crisis in France over Macron’s attempt to force people to work another two years before they can take a state pension took a new, (...)
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to gag parliamentarians imposing the adoption of a (...)
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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The use of the 49.3 by the government is a democratic scandal. It shows the weakness of the government’s social base and of its authoritarian (...)
The French government on Thursday announced it will use an article of the constitution that allows it to adopt as legislation its proposed and hotly contested reform of the pensions system without a vote in Parliament. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart political correspondent Ilyes (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age has stirred mass opposition. The labor minister pushing the bill is an ex-Socialist — and the huge protests in his hometown show how the neoliberalized center left has sold out working-class France.
It’s a chilly, rainy day in Annonay, just south of (...)
The March 7 demonstrations in 280 cities in France broke the records of popular mobilization since the beginning of the movement for the defence of pensions: 3.5 million demonstrators according to the CGT, and 1.28 million according to the Ministry of the Interior. In both cases, these figures (...)
Millions of French citizens are participating in the sixth national strike wave against President Macron’s proposed pension reforms, as reported by Dave Kellaway. Despite the government’s efforts to push the reforms through parliament, the mobilisation continues to gain momentum.
Commentators on (...)
The battle against the French government’s pension reform is not simply just another protest movement. Three crucial issues are at stake here: social, democratic and civilisational, as shown by the exceptional unity among trade unions opposed to the changes, argues Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)
For a month now, the mobilizations against Macron and his government have not weakened, quite the contrary.
Last week, two days of action were announced by the national inter-union coordination: a day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday 7, and demonstrations on Saturday 11 (without calls (...)
Introductory note by Dave Kellaway, who translated this statement.
Tuesday (7th February) saw the third day of massive mobilisations against President Macron’s proposed extension of the pension age from 62 to 64. It was 60 up until 2010. Yesterday, many universities and some schools were (...)
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January have just broken all the records: more than two (...)
Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social movements in years, it has a chance to deal a decisive blow to attacks on welfare.
According to police figures, Tuesday’s nationwide protests (...)
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