Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SALVI Ellen
The killing of 17-year-old Nahel by an armed police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre has made headlines in France and across the world. It has provoked angry reactions in the streets and from a number of politicians. But as Ellen Salvi writes in this op-ed article, the youngster’s death (…)
, by Personalities, collectives and organizations
In France, Macron’s government has just taken an unprecedented step in the repression of the social and environmental movements. On the 21st of June, the government decreed the disbanding of the movement (The Uprisings of the Earth) , which claims over 140,000 supporters and more than 150 local (…)
, by Les Soulèvements de la Terre
In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support (…)
, by CHRISAFIS Angelique
Les Soulèvements de La Terre uses direct action aimed at big business interests
The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
The first two weeks of June brought to an end six months of confrontation between French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and the popular classes, the trade union movement, social movements and the political left. Pyrrhic victory is surely the term that best corresponds to Macron’s (…)
, by Anti-Capitalist Feminists
On 20 March, a long strike began for workers, very largely women, at the Vertbaudet enterprise in northern France, which produces childcare products. The reason for the strike was the 2023 wage agreement, which did not provide for any increase, despite a context of inflation which was (…)
, by PLENEL Edwy
Last week, following a series of violent but unrelated incidents in the country, French president Emmanuel Macron told ministers said the government needed to “counter this process of decivilisation”. The expression immediately provoked controversy. In this analysis, Mediapart’s publishing (…)
, by STETLER Harrison
France’s interior minister has threatened to ban environmentalist groups said to represent a risk of “violence against property.” It’s part of a worrying clampdown on civil liberties that belies Emmanuel Macron’s supposedly “liberal” politics.
In the era of anti-“wokisme,” it’s been easy to (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
Since mid-April, there has been a real change of pace in the social mobilization, which is exerting less pressure on Macron and his government. But hostility to pension reform, hostility to Macron and his government, has hardly diminished and all polls indicate a growing decline in public (…)
The mayor of a small town in north-west France announced his resignation this week following a vicious, months-long hate campaign whipped up by the far-right over the creation of a hostel for asylum seekers in a residential area close to a school. Yannick Morez, who is to move out of the town he (…)
, by RANCIERE Jacques
While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron’s law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people’s demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression.
In recent weeks, Emmanuel Macron (…)
, by LE MOAL Patrick
La France insoumise (LFI) now occupies a central place in the French political left, centred on the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It has succeeded, on the basis of the results of the 2022 presidential election, in regrouping in Nupes (Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale - New (…)
, by DREANO Bernard
Do the twelve-point “peace plan” announced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the statements by Brazilian President Lula on his way to Beijing, suggesting that the Ukrainians “give up” Crimea in order to negotiate, herald a “window of opportunity” for opening some form of negotiation regarding the (…)
, by JAFFARD Sylvestre
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
The mass uprising against French President Macron’s pension reforms – imposed with incredible hubris, without parliamentary authorization, and in the face of majority (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
Clearly, France is going through a social crisis and a democratic crisis. It can even reasonably be said that these two crises reflect a regime crisis, that is, an inability of the ruling class, the capitalist class, to continue to exercise power in a normal way by relying on the current (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
The 6 April saw another day of strikes and demonstrations of the same magnitude as 28 March: according to the unions, there were 2 million people in the streets. There were a large number of blockages and spectacular actions, such as a banner unfurled from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. What (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
The weekend of March 25 represented a real turning point in the political climate, marked by the violence of police repression organized by the government and its Minister of the Interior Gérard Darmanin, a situation also marked by the maintenance of a high level of mobilization during the day (…)
, by PALHETA Ugo
What’s the current state of the movement initiated in France on 19 January 2023 to obtain the withdrawal of yet another pension counter-reform, and a victory against a widely hated president, and where is it going? To those who imagined a last stand of trade unions incapable of standing in the (…)
, by CHINGO Juan, GARRISI Marina, GODIN Romaric
On the eve of 7 March, Juan Chingo and Romaric Godin were interviewed by Marina Garrisi for RP Dimanche about the pattern of the current confrontation in France, its potentialities and weaknesses, as well as a series of strategic problems raised by the situation.
RP Dimanche: What accounts (…)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
With the coup de force of article 49.3 on 16 March, Macron and his government have provoked a new impetus of popular mobilization in all its forms: renewable strikes, blockades, demonstrations and even the movement of university and high school students. But, above all, a real political crisis (…)
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