France: general strike and blockades confront austerity budget
The budget contains €44 billion of cuts, while hiking military spending
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France: the government offensive and the tasks of revolutionaries
Analysis of the political crisis in France and the positions of the French left
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France: Where next for the Popular Front?
A surprise victory for the left-wing New Popular Front will intensify the political instability in the country.
French elections: No vote for the Popular Front
The new popular front is no barrier to the rise of the far right
Oppose France’s new racist laws
On 19 December the French parliament adopted yet another immigration law.
Oppressed French youth demand justice for Nahel!
27 June, Nanterre (a banlieue of Paris): two policemen stop a car, one shouting, ‘Open or I put a bullet in your head!’. Seconds later, a shot. 17-year-old Nahel M is dead.
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French workers step up battle against pension reform
Protests over pensions have become a battle for democracy
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Would the real NPA please stand up?
A credible refoundation of the NPA necessarily must start with a thorough balance sheet of the class struggle in France.
French workers on the march
The cost of living crisis is prompting the biggest strikes in years. But trade union leaders are holding back a general strike.
Is the New People’s Union a step forward for the French working class?
By Marc Lassalle “FRENCH PEOPLE IF you want it, with your ballots you can satisfy many essential demands”. “On June
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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
What’s behind the split in the NPA?
The Revolutionary Communist Current claims it has been expelled from the New Anticapitalist Party in France. What’s really going on?
The Paris Commune at 150: Blueprint for a proletarian state
150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
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France: down with the ‘security’ laws and police impunity!
By Marc Lassalle – PARIS The second wave of the pandemic, combined with a second month-long lockdown, are certainly far
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France: Government tries to split workers’ united front
ON FRIDAY 10 January, workers across France walked out for the 37th day of strikes and demonstrations against the Macron
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“Pas de retrait, pas de trêve” – UK solidarity with French workers
Socialists and trade unionists picket the French Embassy in London in solidarity with the resistance to the Macron government’s attack on pension rights.
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French workers say ‘we’ve had enough – now we must win!’
ONE AND A HALF MILLION on more than 200 demonstrations across France. Nine out of ten trains cancelled: the Paris
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Workers step up resistance to Macron, but left continues to stagnate
Paris – a prolonged strike in Accident and Emergency departments throughout the country, a successful strike on the Paris metro on September 13, with an indefinite stoppage forecast for December, a national day of action on 24 September by the CGT: this accumulation of actions shows that there is a growing polarisation in French society and that the working class is again taking the road of resistance against the attacks of President Emmanuel Macron
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