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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 (...)
Since 29 September, France has seen a first wave of strikes and demonstrations against inflation and the high cost of living, and for wage increases. There was a national day of strike action on 29 September, another on 18 October, and a national march against the cost of living and climate (...)
France’s liberal president, Emmanuel Macron, spent his first term attacking key planks of the French welfare model. Now, he’s launching another war on pensions.
t’s the time for opening moves, shows of strength, and warning shots as France prepares for another winter of debate (and social (...)
“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 (...)
The problem of the delivery of visas by the consular representations of European countries, including France, has become crucial and painful for many Maghrebin who wish to travel for tourism, studies, business or for health or family reasons, and are purely and simply excluded.
We reproduce (...)
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 (...)
The broad leftwing alliances NUPES became a major force in France’s National Assembly following legislative elections in June. However, several leading figures in the alliance have voiced their strong disagreement with its main architect, the veteran radical left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, (...)
In this interview Franck Gaudichaud, doctor of Political Science and a militant in the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA - New Anticapitalist Party), examines the political situation opened by the results of the presidential and legislative election in France, particularly the growth of the (...)
Dear PSM comrades,
We are happy to send you from France this message of solidarity from the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) on the occasion of your 24th congress.
In the difficult global situation that we are all experiencing, we welcome your efforts to develop international links between (...)
By downgrading the ministry for France’s overseas territories to junior status, now under the authority of the interior minister in France’s new government, President Emmanuel Macron has dismayed many Members of Parliament for the territories, but also a number of senior civil servants. (...)
Emmanuel Macron has lost his majority in parliament and looks increasingly set to make deals with conservative and far-right parties. The demonization of the Left and indulgence of Le Pen show the hollowness of his establishment liberalism.
n last month’s French parliamentary elections, (...)
The majority of the left in France - we’ll leave aside the sectors that openly support Putin - condemns this war of aggression by Russian imperialism, demands the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. But at the same time, it remains paralysed and voiceless, abandoning the field of defence (...)
“Just a few months ago, the French political situation seemed to be smiling on Emmanuel Macron. In a contest against Marine Le Pen, whom he had crushed five years earlier, his return to the Élysée seemed all but assured. In the end, though, only the first part of this scenario came to pass. The (...)
The first step to understanding the results of the French legislative elections of June 12 and 19 is simple: Macron has lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly and will find himself in a state of institutional instability whose outcome no one can predict. It is therefore a barely (...)
The second round of France’s parliamentary elections saw the president lose his majority, a new left alliance becoming the second largest force, but also a worrying increase in far-right representation. Ian Birchall explains the background and looks at what may come next.
In a world heading (...)
The outcome of France’s legislative elections on Sunday shows the extent to which the country’s political map has been redrawn in recent years. There are now three main blocs and groups of voters; Emmanuel Macron’s centre-right, the Left and the far-right. But the composition of the new National (...)
Dave Kellaway unravels the unexpected and unparalleled second round results of the French parliamentary elections
Please join Anti*Capitalist Resistance on Thursday, June 23 2022 at 19:30 BST for a discussion with Penny Duggan of the New AntiCapitalist Party on France After the Elections. (...)
In yesterday’s legislative election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s NUPES coalition deprived Emmanuel Macron of his majority. Now, the fight begins to defeat his neoliberal agenda in the parliament.
It wasn’t the victory that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had hoped for—but when the first projections came through at 8pm (...)
By playing at being the sorcerer’s apprentice and pitching himself as the only acceptable option between the radical Left and the far-right, Emmanuel Macron has allowed Rassemblement National to become a major force within the National Assembly, argues Ellen Salvi in this opinion article. Rather (...)
The results of the second round of the legislative elections are a defeat for the current government. Emmanuel Macron is indeed far from obtaining an absolute majority of in parliament, confirming his illegitimacy and his status of “badly elected president”.
The defeats of several leading (...)
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