Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ARFI Fabrice
At just before 9.40am on October 21st Nicolas Sarkozy entered the gates of La Santé prison in Paris to begin the five-year jail term he was given after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in the Libyan election funding scandal, a first for a former French president. But current president (…)
, by BELLO Walden, MELENCHON Jean-Luc
A conversation on the deepening political crisis in France and its implications for the left and the alternative.
In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary representation at 71, ahead (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
On Thursday 16 October, with the rejection of the motion of censure from La France insoumise (by 18 votes) against the Lecornu government reappointed after an initial failure, Macron succeeded in establishing for a time a new government whose foundation will be even weaker than the last two (…)
, by CHRISAFIS Angelique
The president is seen to have accelerated the financial crisis, social inequalities and the rise of the far right
Emmanuel Macron entered office vowing to listen to voters, end inequality and stop the rise of the far right. Photograph: Yoan Valat/AFP/Getty Images
Three French governments (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
Following last week’s political circus and the appointment of this government of pure-bred Macronists and repeat offenders, Sébastien Lecornu has delivered his general policy statement.
This general policy statement contains a provocation: the announcement of inscribing the Bougival (…)
, by PURSEIGLE Pierre
The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king
The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu – who unexpectedly resigned last week before being reappointed four days later – finally cobbled together a new cabinet (…)
, by PLENEL Edwy
In July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in the New Zealand port of Aukland, when one of the NGO’s photographers was drowned, in an operation by France’s forein intelligence agency, the DGSE, to prevent Greenpeace from campaigning against French nuclear tests in (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
France finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron’s government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government whilst facing its most severe social unrest since (…)
, by BERNARD Guillaume, BESANCENOT Olivier, DUTEIL Simon, ORTEGA Stéphane
How to block the country? What lessons can be drawn from the “Block Everything” movement? Olivier Besancenot (former spokesperson for the NPA (New Anticapitalist Party)) and Simon Duteil (former spokesperson for Solidaires trade union confederation ) analyse the new mobilisation sequence that (…)
, by FOUTEAU Carine
Insensitive to mounting anger in France over worsening social conditions and increasing demands made upon the less well-off, while obstinately turning his back on honouring the results of last year’s snap parliamentary elections, in which the broad Left triumphed, Emmanuel Macron is (…)
, by DARMANIN Jules
In his 2016 manifesto Revolution, the then-presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, accused France’s “fossilised political apparatus” of dangerously paving the way for Marine Le Pen’s rise to power. “The political class and the media are a band of sleepwalkers who refuse to see what is coming (…)
, by CHRISAFIS Angelique
Sébastien Lecornu, a presidential ally, is tasked with bringing France’s divided parties together to pass a budget
Sébastien Lecornu, who has been named France’s new prime minister, with his predecessor, François Bayrou, left. Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA
Sébastien Lecornu, a close ally (…)
, by BOUGON François, ESCALONA Fabien
The LFI deputy Sophia Chikirou has once again distinguished herself with pro-Chinese positions. Her fascination with the Beijing regime comes at the cost of forgetting peoples and showing complaisance with powers that are by no means an alternative to the world’s unequal order.
I don’t (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
La France Insoumise persistently claims, against all evidence, that parties and trade unions are banned in Ukraine. Any observer, however casual, or any visitor to Ukraine can easily see that this is not the case.
The Reality of Ukrainian Civil Society
From 4 to 8 August, the Ukrainian (…)
, by DEJEAN Mathieu, TIBERJ Vincent
A public petition launched in France against new legislation that will allow the use of a previously-banned pesticide has gathered close to two million signatures. Among other measures aimed at the agriculture industry, the so-called ’loi Duplomb’ will once again permit farmers to spray crops (…)
, by ARFI Fabrice
Prime minister François Bayrou may not have known everything about the abuses being committed at the private Catholic school at Bétharram in south-west France, but he knew enough while occupying various political posts over the years to at least have tried to take action. Yet he did nothing. On (…)
, by ROUGET Antton, SALVI Ellen
At the beginning of last week the far-right politician Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzling European Parliament funds and immediately banned from running for public office for five years, ruling her out of the 2027 presidential contest. Her party, Rassemblement National, yesterday held a (…)
, by APLUTSOC
Aplutsoc examines the rallies and protests held across France on April 6th, following the conviction of Marine Le Pen and other leaders of the far right National Rally (RN) and assesses the implications for the struggle against far-right movements and the Trump/Putin alliance. For international (…)
, by DEJEAN Mathieu, PALHETA Ugo
In the wake of Marine Le Pen’s ineligibility ruling, renowned sociologist Ugo Palheta offers a sobering analysis of France’s political landscape. Author of several acclaimed works on the far right and the forthcoming “How Fascism is Winning France,” Palheta warns that judicial victories alone (…)
, by VIDÍMOVÁ Sára
French politician Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison. Additionally, she is barred from participating in any elections for five years. How will this judicial decision impact the political situation?
On Monday, 31 March, a long-awaited hearing took place at the Paris (…)
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