Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BARZMAN John, LA BOTZ Dan
John Barzman was born in Los Angeles and lives in France. A university professor at the University of Le Havre, he is active in the SNESup union and Ensemble! His U.S. experience includes serving on the National Committee of the SWP and United Secretariat of the Fourth International between 1974 (…)
, by LE SAINT Rozenn
While France last week passed the landmark official figure of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19, some have questioned the real significance of the disease on the deathrate of the elderly and the physically weak who, they bluntly argue, would have died sooner or later from other causes. Rozenn Le (…)
, by Appeal, Petition / Sign-on Letter
Forty-six French organizations and more than one hundred french personalities are launching a call for proposals. Make it known and sign it around you!
Faced with the Covid 19, the immediate emergency is prevention, built with the population, the strengthening of the health system (beds, (…)
, by RAM Susan
Protests and strikes are on the rise across France against deteriorating working conditions, job losses and Macron’s woeful response to the Covid crisis, writes Susan Ram.
How are French workers responding to the multiple challenges posed by a resurgent Covid-19, a neoliberal government (…)
, by ABDELILAH Alexander, KREMPP Guillaume, PASCARIELLO Pascale, ROUGET Antton, SCHMIDT Robert
The number of people infected by the Covid-19 virus in France had already reached epidemic proportions in February, weeks before the lockdown on public movement was introduced, this investigation by Mediapart reveals. Research now being carried out by doctors even suggests that the very first (…)
, by WILNO Henri
The beginning of the first phase of mitigating some of the measures taken to deal with the coronavirus epidemic starts on 11 May. This deadline has been prepared by the French government in a haphazard manner and the polls show deep distrust on the part of the majority of the population. (…)
, by CONFAVREUX Joseph, SICARD Didier
A leading specialist in infectious diseases, French doctor Didier Sicard was for many years head of internal medicine at the Cochin public hospital in Paris, helped establish the Pasteur Institute’s branch in Laos, south-east Asia, and served for eight years as head of France’s national (…)
, par GOANEC Mathilde
The type of healthcare to be administered and the rules surrounding the physical and chemical restraint of some residents in France’s care homes have been been urgently reviewed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting anger from some carers. They fear many residents who do not get (…)
, by PHILIPPIN Yann, ROUGET Antton, TURCHI Marine
In a televised address on Monday evening when he announced the lockdown on public movement to contain the Covid-19 virus epidemic is now extended into May, French President Emmanuel Macron admitted “our country was not sufficiently ready for this crisis”. But while the unpreparedness can be (…)
, by CHRETIEN Todd, ROUSSET Pierre
As of March 28, France ranks fifth in global Covid-19 deaths, with 1,995 deaths (365 and 299 on Thursday and Friday respectively) and approximately 33,000 dedected coronavirus infections. As the contagion rages out of control in neighboring Italy, Spain, and Germany, French health workers have (…)
, by LEE-SIX Edward, SAMSON Véronique
For years, Emmanuel Macron has worked to get rid of the 35-hour workweek and worker protections from unfair dismissal. Today, his government is using the coronavirus lockdown as a pretext to push ahead with this agenda — and allow bosses to unilaterally undermine labor conditions.
Last Monday (…)
, by Union syndicale Solidaires
For several days SUD-Solidaires has denounced the lack of protection that continues in call centres. Despite the confinement (lockdown), tens of thousands of people must continue to go to work to perform non-essential services, without the minimum of protection. Note that all of this is in (…)
, by SILBERSTEIN Patrick
I’ll begin by telling you a story. In August 1940, when the Luftwaffe was crushing London with its bombs, British bourgeois politicians were very reluctant to open the subway system so that people could take refuge there. It took the intervention of the left—whoever they were—to meet this basic (…)
The département or county most hit by the Covid-19 virus in France so far is the Oise, just north of Paris. Here, where there had been at least 99 cases by Friday March 6th, the outbreak has now become an epidemic. As Caroline Coq-Chodorge reports, there is as yet no sense of panic across the (…)
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