Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LCR (France)
This call, approved by a very large majority at the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire [LCR] congress, marks the concrete beginning of the process of forming a new anticapitalist party that the LCR is calling to be formed. In the coming days, everywhere, its sections will undertake this process. (…)
, by BORGES Marlen
Report on the LCR Congress reproduced by the Cuban Communist Party paper Granma from the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina.
Paris, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) A new anti-capitalist political party might become a reality in France next week during the 17th Congress of the Communist Revolutionary (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, KEUCHEYAN Razmig
We reproduce here an interview he gave to Razmig Keucheyan during the 17th congress of the LCR, held in Plaine-Saint-Denis from January 24-27, 2008, for the Swiss bimonthly SolidaritéS .
SolidaritéS: Is there in the history of the French or international workers’ movement more or less distant (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
All the powers of the old world have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter?: Nicolas Sarkozy, Luc Ferry, Claude Allègre and their alike… Not a single one fails to the call of those who cannot forsee anotherworld but this one, indeed the end of history.
For the right-thinking (…)
, by THORNS David
Phew, now that’s all over…..and what a year it was, with 11 new species recorded for the park and a grand total of 125 species - smashing the previous best of 114 in 2005.
The year was notable in many ways: for the exceptional spring passage of waders, for the 9 new birds recorded, for the (…)
This article was originally published in the French dialy newspaper Le Monde under the tittle: “La gauche c’est moi”.
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He seems to be everywhere. Olivier Besancenot has a prominence in the political arena that now goes beyond his wildest dreams.
This is a far cry from (…)
, by THOMAS Adrien
This essay was published in the 2008 Socialist Register (www.socialistregister.com), published by Merlin Press (see below).
All eyes are once again on France in the wake of hard-Right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory in the 2007 presidential elections. Main-stream media and academic (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, HAYES Ingrid
Strong resistance to Sarkozy’s agenda
Ingrid Hayes
Sarkozy’s election in May 2007 was a serious political defeat. But the recently elected president, hand in hand with the bosses’ union, had yet to inflict a major social defeat to the working class.
It was uncertain whether the team in (…)
, by LORIMER Doug
A nationwide train strike that had crippled France for nine days in protest against right-wing President Nicholas Sarkozy’s attack on the rail workers’ pension system began to end on November 23. News agencies reported that day that rail workers were voting throughout the country to return to (…)
, by ECOIFFIER Matthieu
A springboard in the demonstration. Olivier Besancenot, who came to give out leaflets at Port-Royal yesterday during the Parisian demonstration, scored a hit and... furthered the promotion of his future party “100 per cent” independent of the government left.
With the trade unions entering (…)
, by CDSL, Collective / Multiple signers, Droit Au Logement (DAL), Jeudi Noir, MACAQ
DAL (Right to Housing), MACAQ (Movement for Cultural and Artistic Activities in the Neighbourhood), Jeudi Noir (Black Thursday), CAL (Committee for Action on Housing), CDSL (Committee of the Homeless)
Paris, November 12
Depsite the rain, between 2500 to 3000 people demonstrated this (…)
Information on this struggle can be found in the French section of ESSF website. Click on the button “translation section” (and not article) in the left columne.
NEW EVACUATION
After policy intervention this night, rue de la Banque, many families and
activists are arrested, the tentes and (…)
, by HAZAN Eric
Dispatches from France during Sarkozy’s first hundred days. In the Elysée, echoes of a Giscardian ‘change of style’; among the Socialists, a programmatic disarray compounding a long heritage of desertions; in the streets, immigration raids, counter-demonstrations, and hints of an embattled (…)
, by MBEMBE Achille
What credibility can we afford such gloomy words that portray Africans as fundamentally traumatized beings incapable of acting on their own behalf and in their own recognized interests? What is this so-called historicity of the continent which totally silences the long tradition of resistance, (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Sam
The French presidential and parliamentary elections produced very contradictory results for the broadly defined radical left. Its collective vote of a little less than 9% in the presidential poll, while large compared to other industrialised countries, was down from 15% in 2002. However the (…)
, by Survie
Self-presentation of the French association “Survie” taken from its website July 21, 2007.
WHO ARE WE ?
Survie is a non-profit association which undertakes public-awareness campaigns and lobbies citizens and politicians for a reform of North-South relations and French policy in Africa.
It (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Sam
French bosses are hoping that Sarkozy will be able to deliver on his rhetoric about “modernising” France and imposing an “Atlantic” model, and at long last they will be able to go down Anglo-Saxon path of dramatic deregulation, privatisation, tax cuts for the rich and smashing workers’ rights. (…)
, by MARTIAL Paul
A background article concerning the 1994 Rwandan massacre and the role of France, an official report has just been published.
For the French authorities, things are very simple. The plane carrying the presidents of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, and Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down on (…)
, by LCR (France)
Motion adopted by a large majority of the National Leadership of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), in France.
In order to launch the debate on the perspective of a new anti-capitalist party, first of all among the militants of the LCR, then among all those who might be interested in (…)
, by Commission d’Enquête Citoyenne, GEOUFFRE de la PRADELLE Géraud de
Self-présentation of the CEC taken form the website of the association Survie.
For Survie, the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda was a truly shocking event which had a decisive influence on the association’s activities. The Rwandan affair gave a clear indication of Françafrique’s criminal (…)
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