France
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Frying in France
18 July 2023 - by Michael Roberts
As I fry in record temperatures in the south of France, the concept of a short sunny vacation away from the vagaries of British weather has evaporated. The world endured the hottest week ever recorded between 3-10 July this year. And (...) -
Djibril Bassolet, putschist on the run after his conviction in Burkina Faso, invited to France to talk of peace!
13 July 2023 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
Below is the press release from the [Justice pour Sankara, justice pour l’Afrique->https://www.thomassankara.net/djibrill-bassolet-putschiste-fuite-apres-condamnation-burkina-invite-france-parler-de-paix network. The French State, whose leaders (...) -
Macron and Putin fight the same battle… against environmentalists!
27 June 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The coincidence is terribly eloquent: On the same day, Wednesday June 21, 2023, almost at the same time, Macron and Putin declared war on all those who take the protection of nature, humanity and our planet seriously! Macron and his government (...) -
The Fitch rating agency downgraded France’s rating.
France Shown Yellow Card
13 May 2023 - by Yvette Krolikowski
On Friday 28 April 2023, the Fitch financial rating agency downgraded France’s rating from AA to AA- with ’stable outlook’. The agency said, “Political deadlock and (sometimes violent) social movements pose a risk to Macron’s reform agenda and could (...) -
France: What happens when Macron has already been defeated but the great popular movement has not yet won?
9 May 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
After almost four months (!) of enormous mobilizations by the workers’ and popular movement, unprecedented in post-war France (!), the conclusion of the French unions’ struggle against the pension (anti-)reform might appear to be obvious: the (...) -
What’s the problem with pensions?
1 April 2023 - by Michael Roberts
The recent massive demonstrations against the Macron administration in France forcing through so-called pension reforms reveals the determined attempts of pro-capitalist governments in all the major economies to cut real wages when we are old (...) -
The pension crisis (France): Faced with social anger, Macron replaces legitimacy with police batons
29 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
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 (...) -
May 1968 - March 2023!
27 March 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
At a time when those who declare, even among the French elites (!), that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new May 68” are multiplying, while noting that in the country now reigns .... “an insurrectional atmosphere”, one can now reasonably ask: (...) -
Youth mobilize against Macron’s scorn
27 March 2023 - by Maxime Perriot
One week after the French government used article 49,3 of the Constitution to impose its reform of the retirement age thus short-circuiting the parliament, popular mobilization has intensified and seen an important increase in the number of (...) -
Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him
20 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to (...) -
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
20 March 2023 - by Eric Toussaint
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the extraordinary experience of the Paris Commune, it is fundamental to draw a number of lessons from it. The measures a government takes regarding its Central Bank, the debts of working class people, (...) -
Pensions: The trial of strength to make Macron give way
8 February 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January (...) -
France: towards a social explosion of historic proportions!
3 February 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! In particular, on Tuesday January 31st the demonstrations against (...) -
19 January 2023 : Big succes for social mobilization in France against the neoliberal government
20 January 2023 - by CADTM International
The international CADTM expresses its warm support to the people who are mobilising in France against elitist government attacks on the pension system. We are glad to see the huge success of the mobilisation of the national day of action on 19 (...) -
French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance
15 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract As protest against TotalEnergies stretching from South Africa’s Cape coastline to eastern Uganda rises, the main Big Oil target of African climate activists is facing an historic choice. It can continue long-standing patterns of (...) -
International Appeal for the Trial Relating to the Assassination of Thomas Sankara and his Fellow Victims be Filmed
19 October 2021 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
Keep the memory of the trial for posterity After a long wait of 34 years, by National, African and International opinion, the trial relating to the assassination of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims has finally opened on 11 October 2021 (...) -
Michel Husson: an activist in the economy and an economist who inspired politics
22 July 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
Michel Husson’s decease will leave many comrades all over the world with a deep sense of loss and bereavement. Michel Husson (1949-2021), who had a solid training as an economist, was a keen observer of the capitalist system and its evolution (...) -
Karl Marx Saw Signs of the Socialist Future in the Paris Commune
24 May 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis, David Broder
Today marks 150 years since the start of the Bloody Week, when the French army drowned the Paris Commune in blood. For Karl Marx, the Paris revolution was the greatest working-class uprising in his lifetime — and a model for what socialism might (...) -
Africa: How France Continues to Dominate Its Former Colonies in Africa
26 April 2021 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Fanny Pigeaud, Chris Dite
In France’s former African colonies, imperialist monetary policies from Paris continue to cripple domestic economies and undermine democracy. Colonialism in Africa won’t have meaningfully come to an end until true economic sovereignty is allowed (...) -
Sankara case and companions. The trial quickly! ... Blaise Compaoré must be extradited and France must cooperate!
16 April 2021 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
Press Release The decisions of the pre-trial hearing, published on April 13, 2021, confirm the indictment of the main defendants. The case has now been referred to the Military Tribunal for due process. We demand that Blaise Compaoré be (...) -
The Sankara Affair : Press release of the Network Justice for Sankara
19 March 2021 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
The French authorities must immediately make all documents concerning the assassination of Thomas Sankara available to Burkina Faso courts Press Release On 28 November 2017, on official visit to Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron, the French (...) -
Paris Commune 150: the economics
18 March 2021 - by Michael Roberts
Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class in history. This new class was the product (...) -
Planting budgetary time bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche
14 January 2021 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor
‘A French Jeremy Corbyn, and in power!’ you’d think after reading the first few paragraphs of Macron’s recent interview in Le Grand Continent. He condemns the Washington Consensus, the paradigm of ‘less state intervention, privatisations, structural (...) -
Total Uganda case in France: the Court of Appeal of Versailles remands the case to the commercial court
11 December 2020 - by Survie, Les Amis de la Terre, CCFD-Terre Solidaire , ActionAid France-Peuples Solidaires, Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette
The Versailles Court of Appeal today issued its decision on the case against the oil giant Total led by six French and Ugandan associations - Friends of the Earth France, Survie, AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE and NAVODA - which constitutes the first legal (...) -
Publicity stunt, lies and omission on African debt, Macron bets on the Paris Club
7 July 2020 - by Milan Rivié
On 13th and 15th April 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron drew the world’s attention by calling for a “massive cancellation” of Africa’s debt. A few hours later, the G20 disavowed it by decreeing a suspension of payments of the poorest (...)
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