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There are many more articles in the corresponding French section, reflecting the range of discussions and point of views within the French (radical) Left, in addition to article on current political situation. Of course, these are... in French. To reach the French section, click on the “translation” button in the left column.
French authorities have banned demonstrations in support of Gaza, arrested protesters, and moved to dissolve several Palestine advocacy groups.
The political climate in France has been tense since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel and Israel’s ensuing war on Gaza. On Oct. 12, Interior (...)
France is withdrawing into itself, writes Mediapart’s co-editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. The latest manifestation of its post-colonial obsessions is the ban now introduced on the wearing at school of the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women. It (...)
As on other issues, when it comes to working-class neighbourhoods, Emmanuel Macron has failed to find the path to a common project.
The events that have shaken France since the June 27 death of young Nahel M., shot by the police during a traffic stop, come during the “100 days” of (...)
The shooting of Nahel by a police officer at point-blank range in Nanterre has laid bare the effects of decades of discriminatory and security-based public policies targeting working-class neighbourhoods and the young people who grow up there, particularly those who are racialized and living (...)
Rioting erupted in Black and Arab communities in Paris and several other cities in France last week after a police officer murdered a 17-year-old French boy, shooting him pointblank in the chest. He had been stopped for a traffic violation. Rioters in several cities and towns–infuriated by the (...)
The murder of 17-year-old Nahel by a police officer has sparked a veritable revolt among young people in France. This murder is just one in a long and sad list of crimes committed by the French police, which particularly affect young people whose parents come from former or current French (...)
Since the death of young Nahel, working-class neighbourhoods have been mobilizing. This mobilization is legitimate. And the source of the violence lies with the police, Darmanin and Macron, who are responsible for this situation.
An anti-racist, anti-authoritarian revolt
For years, those (...)
The killing of 17-year-old Nahel shows how little has changed since the deaths of two teenagers fleeing police in 2005
Since the video went viral of the brutal killing by a police officer of Nahel, a 17-year-old shot dead at point-blank range, the streets and housing estates of many poorer (...)
I’ve interviewed disaffected people across French suburbs. Their anger has been mounting for years.
Riots broke out in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, following the lethal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy named as Nahel M. An investigation into his death is ongoing but the situation has (...)
The French government has changed tack. Two days after the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel at a police roadblock at Nanterre in the western suburbs of Paris, the minister of the interior is now talking about a tough crackdown on the unrest that has broken out in several of the country’s cities. (...)
The killing of 17-year-old Nahel by an armed police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre has made headlines in France and across the world. It has provoked angry reactions in the streets and from a number of politicians. But as Ellen Salvi writes in this op-ed article, the youngster’s death (...)
In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support (...)
Les Soulèvements de La Terre uses direct action aimed at big business interests
The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly (...)
The first two weeks of June brought to an end six months of confrontation between French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and the popular classes, the trade union movement, social movements and the political left. Pyrrhic victory is surely the term that best corresponds to Macron’s (...)
Last week, following a series of violent but unrelated incidents in the country, French president Emmanuel Macron told ministers said the government needed to “counter this process of decivilisation”. The expression immediately provoked controversy. In this analysis, Mediapart’s publishing (...)
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
The mass uprising against French President Macron’s pension reforms – imposed with incredible hubris, without parliamentary authorization, and in the face of majority (...)
Clearly, France is going through a social crisis and a democratic crisis. It can even reasonably be said that these two crises reflect a regime crisis, that is, an inability of the ruling class, the capitalist class, to continue to exercise power in a normal way by relying on the current (...)
The 6 April saw another day of strikes and demonstrations of the same magnitude as 28 March: according to the unions, there were 2 million people in the streets. There were a large number of blockages and spectacular actions, such as a banner unfurled from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. What (...)
The weekend of March 25 represented a real turning point in the political climate, marked by the violence of police repression organized by the government and its Minister of the Interior Gérard Darmanin, a situation also marked by the maintenance of a high level of mobilization during the day (...)
What’s the current state of the movement initiated in France on 19 January 2023 to obtain the withdrawal of yet another pension counter-reform, and a victory against a widely hated president, and where is it going? To those who imagined a last stand of trade unions incapable of standing in the (...)
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