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, by DUVAL François
A few weeks ago, I published a document entitled “On the French Left: what’s going on?” for the use of activists of the different parties and movements of the European Anti-capitalist Left, or elsewhere in the world, who wanted to know more about the situation of the French Left.
This new (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
FRANCE IS A paradoxical country. Nowhere else in Europe has the neoliberal offensive — the drive to privatize services and enshrine free-market supremacy over social welfare — been resisted more fiercely or more successfully. In November-December 1995 striking public sector workers brought down (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, LCR (France)
Nicolas Sarkozy has been just elected president of the republic with approximately 53% of the votes. With him, it is the programme of the MEDEF [bosses organisation] which is in government. New tax gifts to companies and the rich, new privatisations of public services, the hunting out of (…)
, by SABADO François
The new political situation puts two demands on the agenda: unity to resist the plans of Sarkozyism and a new workers party. [The French original of this article is much longuer than the English version below. Click on "tranlation in the left column to get it].
1) Unity first. It is a capital (…)
, by THORNS David
For a birder living in Paris or thereabouts it’s difficult to imagine a better local patch than this – a small green island thrust up above an urban landscape. The most appealing feature of the park from a birder’s point of view is its elevation, with big welcoming skies all around :– to the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, GAUDICHAUD Frank
The first text below is a reflection on the outcome of the first round of the French presidentials, written immediately after the outcome was announced. The second is an interview with Daniel Bensaid by Franck Gaudichaud [1], carried out on 2 April 2007. Because of the obvious overlap in the (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, LCR (France)
The following declaration was made immediately after the first results were announced on the evening of Sunday 22 Aprilh. From the table of results published at the end, it is clear that the first projections slightly over-estimated the Besancenot vote. However, 4.1% for the LCR candidate is an (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, LCR (France)
Nearly 1.5 million voters rallied around my candidacy. That’s 280,000 more than in 2002. Despite the pressure for the “useful vote” which for the last several weeks has served as the only program of the campaign of Ségolène Royal, more than 4.1% of voters cast their votes for my name. It is (…)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
Four thousand people crammed in to the Mutualité meeting hall on April 18 to hear Olivier Besancenot, despite the rally falling in the school holiday period. A giant screen was erected outside the hall so that several hundred people who couldn’t find places inside the hall could follow the (…)
, by SIMONS Stefan
Translation of an article published in Germany by Der Spriegel Online in the mainstream press.
Lille,
Half a dozen far-left and Green candidates are on the ballot for the first round of the French presidential elections. While they have no chance of winning, they could take vital votes away (…)
, by Stop EPR
March 17th 2007, Demonstrations in 5 French cities :
TOGETHER AGAINST THE NEW EUROPEAN NUCLEAR REACTORS AND FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
France is the most nuclearized country in the world. Since our electric company EDF belongs to the public sector, the nuclear energy has been imposed upon the (…)
, by DUVAL François
The political divisions on the left in France in the run-up to the Presidential elections have provoked much debate internationally. François Duval, from the LCR national leadership recently set out the position of the LCR in a report to the European Anti-capitalist Left.
Many friends from (…)
, by SABADO François, Viento Sur
This interview with François Sabado, member of the Political Bureau of the LCR, (Revolutionary Communist League, French section of the Fourth International) was first published on the website “Viento Sur”. Since this interview took place the process there have been further developments on the (…)
, by COUPE Annick, WOLFREYS Jim
Interview given to IS on the 2006 youth movement in France against the CPE, a new “Contract of Initial Employment” (a government measure which aimed to take away employment rights from young workers), the trade unions and the political situation at the left .
There is a glossary and a (…)
, by PERRIN Marie
Censier University was on strike from 23 February and blockaded from the following day. Efforts to mobilise around the CPE had begun around one month earlier through the UNEF students’ union. Around 20 people got together after a fairly huge meeting on the question of the sale of Censier to (…)
, by HERRERA Rémy
In quick succession in May and October–November 2005 and in April 2006, French society experienced three moments of what is clearly a major revolt against neoliberalism. To understand these new class struggles in France and where they might lead it is necessary to view these three moments of (…)
, by CARASSO Laurent
France has just experienced the third confrontation with the government in less than a year. The country had already seen political confrontation on a large scale with the mobilization against the adoption of the European Constitutional Treaty in the spring of 2005. Already at that time a (…)
, by KOUVELAKIS Stathis
In less than a year France experienced three major upheavals which have pushed it to the centre of international attention : the ‘No’ victory in the referendum on the European Constitution, the riots in the suburbs in autumn 2005 and the anti-CPE (contrat première embauche - First Employment (…)
, by SMITH Murray
After two months of a mass campaign against the CPE (First Employment Contract), on the morning of April 10 the French government finally caved in and withdrew the measure. The CPE would have enabled employers to sack young workers under the age of 26 in the first two years of their employment, (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier
Originally published as Opinion in April 28, 2006 edition of the French daily newspaper Le Monde.
The anti-liberal left has demonstrated its strength over the last year. It must be present and united at the presidential election.
Our names appear in the opinion polls about the next (…)
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