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With the coup de force of article 49.3 on 16 March, Macron and his government have provoked a new impetus of popular mobilization in all its forms: renewable strikes, blockades, demonstrations and even the movement of university and high school students. But, above all, a real political crisis (...)
Dave Kellaway gives an update on the deepening crisis in France and we translate the latest statement from npa - nouveau parti anticapitaliste.
Yesterday, the crisis in France over Macron’s attempt to force people to work another two years before they can take a state pension took a new, (...)
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to gag parliamentarians imposing the adoption of a (...)
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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The use of the 49.3 by the government is a democratic scandal. It shows the weakness of the government’s social base and of its authoritarian (...)
The French government on Thursday announced it will use an article of the constitution that allows it to adopt as legislation its proposed and hotly contested reform of the pensions system without a vote in Parliament. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart political correspondent Ilyes (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age has stirred mass opposition. The labor minister pushing the bill is an ex-Socialist — and the huge protests in his hometown show how the neoliberalized center left has sold out working-class France.
It’s a chilly, rainy day in Annonay, just south of (...)
The March 7 demonstrations in 280 cities in France broke the records of popular mobilization since the beginning of the movement for the defence of pensions: 3.5 million demonstrators according to the CGT, and 1.28 million according to the Ministry of the Interior. In both cases, these figures (...)
Millions of French citizens are participating in the sixth national strike wave against President Macron’s proposed pension reforms, as reported by Dave Kellaway. Despite the government’s efforts to push the reforms through parliament, the mobilisation continues to gain momentum.
Commentators on (...)
The battle against the French government’s pension reform is not simply just another protest movement. Three crucial issues are at stake here: social, democratic and civilisational, as shown by the exceptional unity among trade unions opposed to the changes, argues Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)
For a month now, the mobilizations against Macron and his government have not weakened, quite the contrary.
Last week, two days of action were announced by the national inter-union coordination: a day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday 7, and demonstrations on Saturday 11 (without calls (...)
Introductory note by Dave Kellaway, who translated this statement.
Tuesday (7th February) saw the third day of massive mobilisations against President Macron’s proposed extension of the pension age from 62 to 64. It was 60 up until 2010. Yesterday, many universities and some schools were (...)
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January have just broken all the records: more than two (...)
Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social movements in years, it has a chance to deal a decisive blow to attacks on welfare.
According to police figures, Tuesday’s nationwide protests (...)
Save this article in PDF Version imprimable de cet article Version imprimable Tip A Friend The day of strikes and demonstrations 31 January was a success! Two and a half million people took to the streets, more than on Thursday 19 January. The time has come to step up the mobilization: to (...)
Since 29 September, France has seen a first wave of strikes and demonstrations against inflation and the high cost of living, and for wage increases. There was a national day of strike action on 29 September, another on 18 October, and a national march against the cost of living and climate (...)
By downgrading the ministry for France’s overseas territories to junior status, now under the authority of the interior minister in France’s new government, President Emmanuel Macron has dismayed many Members of Parliament for the territories, but also a number of senior civil servants. (...)
Emmanuel Macron has lost his majority in parliament and looks increasingly set to make deals with conservative and far-right parties. The demonization of the Left and indulgence of Le Pen show the hollowness of his establishment liberalism.
n last month’s French parliamentary elections, (...)
“Just a few months ago, the French political situation seemed to be smiling on Emmanuel Macron. In a contest against Marine Le Pen, whom he had crushed five years earlier, his return to the Élysée seemed all but assured. In the end, though, only the first part of this scenario came to pass. The (...)
The first step to understanding the results of the French legislative elections of June 12 and 19 is simple: Macron has lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly and will find himself in a state of institutional instability whose outcome no one can predict. It is therefore a barely (...)
The second round of France’s parliamentary elections saw the president lose his majority, a new left alliance becoming the second largest force, but also a worrying increase in far-right representation. Ian Birchall explains the background and looks at what may come next.
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