Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LATHAM Chris
French people have sent a strong message to the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy with 90% of voters in a referendum organised by anti-privatisation campaigners rejecting plans to partially privatise the national postal service, La Poste.
The result highlighted public opposition to (…)
, by KAIRA Khris
Baguettes, Eiffel Tower, art and independent film. These are some of the things that come to mind when people hear the word “France”. It’s much more than that though. There is increasing unemployment, abuse of migrant workers, intolerance, union-busting and other social and political problems. A (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
Discover the rich legacy of Daniel Bensaïd, a leading French revolutionary and theorist, through this online library of his writings. Bensaïd was a central figure in the radical left from the 1960s onwards, engaged in struggles against imperialism, capitalism, and injustice worldwide.
This (…)
, by SIMONS Stefan
Many articles on this issue are posted in ESSF website’s French section. To reach them, click on “translation section” in the left column.
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France Telecom employees gather on Sept. 10, 2009, in memory of one of their colleagues who committed suicide last July in (…)
, by TRUMAN Annolies
On July 5, the racist, far-right National Front (FN) was narrowly defeated in the second round of the Henin Beaumont municipal by-election.
In response to the strong showing of the FN in the first round, left-wing parties and the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) formed a (…)
, by BARON Alain
IN JANUARY 2009, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy launched a vicious attack against the railway workers’ union SUD (Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques in French), accusing them of having completely paralyzed one of the main train stations in Paris and, by extension, rail transport into and (…)
, by LATHAM Chris
More than 150,000 people joined protests in France on June 13 against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government to make working people carry the costs of the global economic crisis.
The protests were the fifth major demonstration this year called by France’s eight union confederations (…)
, by ROUFFIGNE Philippe
The Ford factory in Bordeaux has been the subject of a long struggle between the managers, intent on closing the plant, and the CGT union. Successive actions mean the plat remains open, but there are hard lessons for workers in similar positions.
The Ford factory at Blanquefort (near Bordeaux, (…)
, by HUSSEY Andrew
Demonstrations and strikes, uproar in the universities and the emergence of a new anti-capitalist party: is France on the verge of another May ’68?
I have been living full-time in Paris for the past four years and reporting from the city for nearly 20. I have, therefore, become accustomed to (…)
, by ROSEMBERG Claire
CANNES, France, May 20, 2009 (AFP) - British filmmaker Ken Loach took time off his schedule at Cannes Wednesday to trade ideas with France’s far-left New Anti-Capitalist Party on the upcoming European elections.
“I support them,” Loach told AFP as he went in to meet local NPA leaders in one of (…)
, by PERELMAN Marc
In April 1968 workers at a factory of Sud Aviation in Nantes, France, began a strike to protest the decision by the company to cut their hours and wages. A month later, they decided to lock themselves—and their boss—inside the plant. They were soon joined by leftist students, a turning point (…)
, by CODY Edward
GRENOBLE, France — The striking workers had no battle plan, but their jobs were endangered by layoffs, and they were itching for a confrontation.
So when managers at the U.S.-owned Caterpillar factory here refused to negotiate under pressure, workers recalled, resentments that had built up (…)
, by MOISI Dominique
PARIS
Is the current economic crisis uniting the democratic world in anger as much as in fear?
In France, with many factories closing, a wave of executive hostage-taking - “bossnapping” - is agitating boardrooms and police across the country. In the United States, big bonuses given to (…)
, by LATHAM Chris
On March 19, more than 3 million people joined in the second day of strikes and mass demonstrations called by France’s eight main union federations so far this year.
The general strikes have been called against the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s response to the global economic (…)
, by AP, JOLLY David, LEROUGETEL Antoine
PARIS — Workers at a Caterpillar plant in the French Alps briefly held five of their bosses in a dispute over their severance packages, workers and union officials said Tuesday. “There is no violence or sequestration, but simply pressure so they restart negotiations,” Pierre Piccarreta, a (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
Guadeloupe has made an impression...but not yet on the French union movement.
The capitalist crisis affects France as it does all industrialized countries. The ingredients are the same: The financial crisis rocks the banks, even though the French banks have been generally less effected than (…)
, by RAO Nathan
It would be wrong to see last Thursday’s massively successful protest actions in France as distant and exotic, of no particular relevance to us here in Canada. With the economic meltdown heralding a new political era, and with most of the country’s Left and social movements still stunned and (…)
, by BERNARD Steven, LEMER Jeremy
Olivier Besancenot (from the New Anti-Capitalist Party, NPA, France) is seen as one of the 50 who “who will frame the debate” on “the future” of capitalism, according to the Financial Times... To see the pictures of these 50 people and their “profile”, click on the above link...
To quote: (…)
, by de la SIEGA Virginia
“Now, when there is a strike in France, nobody realises.” When President Nicolas Sarkozy said these famous words, he was at the summit of his glory. He, and many others around him, thought that he would finally manage to steamroll his reforms, which were meant to transform France into a country (…)
, by ANTENTAS Josep Maria
The panorama of the French left has been shaken up by the birth of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) impelled by the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) whose candidate in the last presidential elections in 2007, Olivier Besancenot, emerged as the main option to the left of the Socialist (…)
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