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Charlie Hebdo: Islamist terrorism and Republican Racism

Monday, January 12, 2015 / By Workers Power

The 7 January attack on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed, […]

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 / By Workers Power

By Marc Lasalle The Parti de gauche (PdG), founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2008, aims to unite all the forces

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 / By Workers Power

By KD Tait, 11 December 2013 The French government has sent 1,600 troops to the Central African Republic to

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 / By Workers Power

By Marc Lassalle This autumn, “Socialist” President François Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault have been facing an upturn in

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 / By Workers Power

By KD Tait In October, thousands of French school and college students blockaded schools and took to the streets

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 / By Workers Power

The New Anticapitalist Party (founded in 2009) at first seemed a beacon of hope to the left, not just in

Monday, October 15, 2012 / By Workers Power

The continent is still deep in recession. Coordinated by Germany, France and the European Commission and Central Bank, savage austerity

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 / By Workers Power

Celebrations on the streets, in the Place de la Bastille and across France, greeted François Hollande’s victory in the second

Saturday, May 12, 2012 / By Workers Power

THE VICTORY of Francois Hollande has raised huge expectations among workers across France and Europe of an end to austerity, posing

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 / By Workers Power

France has been gripped by mass strikes and demonstrations many times over the last decade, Marc Lassalle examines the reason

Saturday, May 1, 1993 / By Workers Power

By Emile Gallet GRAINY BLACK and white film of Parisian students hurling rocks at the police; crowds choking on clouds

Wednesday, June 1, 1988 / By Pouvoir Ouvrier

Analysis of the joint election campaign by the LCR and Pierre Juquin