Oppose France’s new racist laws
On 19 December the French parliament adopted yet another immigration law.
France: Macron or Le Pen – no choice for the working class
THIS SUNDAY’S second round of the French presidential election pits the incumbent, authoritarian neoliberal Emmanuel Macron, against veteran far right
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Mali: war on terror or new scramble for Africa?
By Marc Lassalle In June, President Emmanuel Macron announced the end of France’s eight year military operations against Islamist insurgents
A crisis of leadership among the French working class
The current situation in France is characterised by a turn to the right, a severe weakening of working class consciousness and the rise of “classless” populism, all in conditions of greatly increased social and political instability.
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French workers’ and students’ struggle at a turning point
By Marc Lassalle PARIS – After a month of militant but inconclusive strikes and occupations by railway workers and students,
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Huge abstention takes the gloss off Macron’s majority
WITH 32 PER CENT of the votes in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections, Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République
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Emmanuel Macron: class struggle ahead
DURING THE weeks between the first and second round of the French presidential elections, some on the French left called for
France: Presidential elections in a climate of crisis
“Since 1965 I have never lived through a presidential election like this. There are no more axes, no more rules”,
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