Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SMITH Murray
“The executive (government) is in tatters, the ministers squabble, the (parliamentary) majority is rent by divisions”. The quotation is not from one of the leaders of the mass movement against the CPE (First Employment Contract) that has shaken France over the last few weeks. It is from the (…)
, by SMITH Murray
On the morning of April 10, the French government finally caved in. After two months of a mass campaign against the CPE (First Employment Contract), the measure was withdrawn. The CPE would have allowed employers to sack workers under 26 during the first two years of their employment, without (…)
, by SMITH Murray
Over the last four years France’s right-wing government has forced through a whole series of neo-liberal policies. Sometimes resistance has been fierce, as with the reform of the pension system in 2003. But overall the government has been able to impose its “reforms”, mainly because the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Daniel Bensaid, in this interview with Socialist Worker, reflects on the current battle of the French students and its comparisons with student movements of the past.
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As someone who took part in the mobilisations of May 1968, what do you think are the principal similarities and (…)
, by Greenpeace France
Greenpeace brings symbols of outrage to French doorstep: ’France, Your Waste Kills!’
February 09, 2006
New Delhi, India - Greenpeace activists were prevented from delivering protest bags, each an individual petition, with the message, ’France, your waste kills!’ to the French embassy in (…)
, by Greenpeace France
France - French President Chirac has announced a dramatic recall of the asbestos-laden warship Clemenceau — it will be turning around and going back to France. Our actions, emails to Chirac and an embarrassing international scandal left France with little choice but to abandon the misguided (…)
, by RUSCIO Alain
For Alain Ruscio, historian of colonialism, the rehabilitation of France’s colonial past is fraught with danger for the cohesion of French society. Huma: Many historians and teachers have expressed their indignation in relation to Article 4 of the Law of 23 February 2005 which sings the praises (…)
, by RAO Govind
Paris is Burning
The fires lighting up the nights of the suburbs of France over the last month have stripped even more gloss off the already tarnished ideology of neoliberalism. Against the alleged ’harmonies of the market’ producing benefits for all, the seething outrages of the excluded and (…)
International Call to NGOs, groups, trade unions, political parties and personalities (scientists, artists, politicians...). Please, sign the call below against the nuclear reactor EPR and join the international support committee at the Cherbourg April 2006 15th -16th rally in France. Please, (…)
, by Movements
Paris,
Confronted to a revolt born from the accumulation of inequalities and discrimination in the “banlieues” (suburbs of Paris) and the poor areas, the government has just passed a new threshold, of extreme gravity, in the escalade of security. Even in May 1968, when the situation was a lot (…)
, by REICHEL Matt
The mainstream press has been telling Europeans that “riots” have broken out in the Parisian Suburbs (Banlieues) this week. In calling them “riots”, the popular imagination likens them to fires and other sorts of largely uncontrollable disasters. It’s as if the French are merely being faced with (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, LCR (France)
Nearly two weeks into the wave of rioting by young people of mainly North and Black African origin in the poor neighbourhoods around France’s towns and cities, the government has reacted by reviving a 1955 law instituting a State of Emergency and giving it sweeping repressive powers. We are (…)
, by SMITH Murray
The nightly riots in the poor neighbourhoods around France’s towns and cities have now been going on for two weeks. On November 7th, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced the government’s response. It was to resuscitate a 1955 law authorizing the proclamation of a state of emergency. (…)
, by CARASSO Laurent
The French referendum on the European constitution created a political shock in France and in Europe. A political shock because, in spite of the commitment of the biggest parties of Right and Left (the UMP and the UDF on the right and the Socialist Party on the left) to the campaign for the (…)
, by KOUVELAKIS Stathis
1: A new period
The result of the French referendum on 29 May 2005 was immediately greeted in France, but also internationally, as a major political turning point rather than just another election result. The full impact of the shockwave from the event has not yet been felt, which makes it (…)
, by RUSCIO Alain
For the historian Alain Ruscio, “a paternalistic racism” was manifested in 1931. Interview with Alain Ruscio, author of 1931: L’apogée de la bonne conscience morale" (La Dispute editions, 2005).
L’HUMANITE: What was the social political context of the era?
ALAIN RUSCIO: In 1931 there was a (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Marx had the temerity to declare that philosophy would eventually wither away through the accomplishment of its own strategic development: it was now no longer merely a matter of interpreting the world, but of changing it. Today, by way of contrast, Alain Badiou proposes to reiterate the (…)
, by HALLWARD Peter, SWIFFEN Alistair
This text has been written as an introduction to the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s “The Mole and the Locomotive”.
“The Mole and the Locomotive” is Daniel Bensaïd’s own introduction to his book: “Résistances. Essai de taupologie générale”, Fayard, Paris 2001.
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Born in (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
After de first round of the Presidential elections
, by VERSCHAVE François-Xavier
Text by François-Xavier VERSCHAVE, president of Survie from 1995 to 2005.
This brief summary is based on an article published in a special dossier of the review Mouvements (“Movements”, May 2002), “De la Françafrique à la mafiafrique” (“From Françafrique to mafiafrique”). My main works on the (…)
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