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Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward
2 October 2025 - by Léon Crémieux
France finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron’s government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government (…) -
Analytical mission Report: Mission to Haiti
16 April 2025 - by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
This analytical report is dedicated to the Haitian people whose voice the world refuses to hear, to all those from Haiti or in exile elsewhere who long for the sun of their island, to those who fight and resist the gangs, institutional violence, (…) -
Big Brother is already at work! Urgent resistance before it’s too late...
25 July 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias
A highlight of the Olympic flame’s peregrinations through France was its meeting with a “102-year-old former Resistance fighter”, which was celebrated by the country’s media, who were quick to see it as an apotheosis of the flame’s... humanist (…) -
France: Thanks to a massive mobilization of the Left the Far Right cannot control the government
10 July 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024? In the second round of France’s parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024, the National Rally (Rassemblement National -RN-) suffered a political defeat, even though it (…) -
France: Macron’s gamble
30 June 2024 - by Michael Roberts
France votes over two rounds on June 30 and July 7 in a snap parliamentary election called by President Macron after his party suffered a heavy defeat in the June EU Assembly elections. France has two rounds of voting: if a candidate gets 50% of (…) -
France: With the New Popular Front against the deadly fascist threat!
20 June 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias
When, just after the announcement of the results of the European elections, French President Macron surprised everyone by deciding to dissolve the Parliament and to call general elections for June 30, it was obvious that he aspired to repeat, (…) -
Joining forces with the social movement
19 June 2024 - by Front Populaire Social
More than 150 trade unionists, social movement activists and alternative leftists are responding to the call for a New Popular Front and calling for grassroots involvement to push back the far right and go further in the rupture and the (…) -
ECSA 26 to 28 April 2024
The CADTM will stand up for a social, ecological, feminist and antiracist Europe in Marseilles
During the last weekend of April, activists from all over the continent will meet in Marseilles to reconquer our common spaces and stand up for a social, feminist, antiracist, ecological, pacific and democratic Europe. Let us make sure that this (…) -
CFA franc: conditions are ripe for replacement of the west African currency rooted in colonialism
17 April 2024 - by Kai Koddenbrock
At no point in history has the CFA franc – the name of a colonial currency used in west and central African countries belonging to the franc zone – been closer to its demise. Senegal has overwhelmingly voted for leftwing Pastef candidate (…) -
View from India: a retrospective of Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Narenda Modi in late January 2024
23 March 2024 - by Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar
Emmanuel Macron visited India on 25 and 26 January. The interview below was prepared for this occasion. However, for reasons largely beyond our control, its finalisation was postponed until now. Better late than never? Sushovan Dhar is an (…) -
Éric Toussaint argues in favour of a law against vulture funds at the French National Assembly
1 February 2024 - by CADTM, Eric Toussaint
On Thursday 25 January 2024, Éric Toussaint was invited by Michel Sala, an MP of La France Insoumise, at the French National Assembly. He talked about the new debt crisis that hits a large number of countries of the South and is only beginning. (…) -
After Blaise Compaoré, it’s François’ turn to be shielded from his country’s justice system by the French authorities
13 January 2024 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
PRESS RELEASE The news was made public on 21 December 2023. Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister of the French government, cancelled the extradition decree signed by her predecessor Édouard Philippe in March 2020 and validated by the Council of (…) -
The Thomas Sankara affair, Questioned by a Member of Parliament about the delivery of the archives, the French government responded with a State lie
19 December 2023 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
PRESS RELEASE On 28 November 2023, Frédéric Maillot, Member of Parliament for the French overseas departement of the island of Reunion, took advantage of a question and answer session to pose the following question: "If the French State has (…) -
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 network. The French State, whose leaders like to give Human rights lessons to the whole world, has thus allowed one of the perpetrators of the September 2015 (…) -
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 (…) -
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 and (…) -
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 (…) -
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 (…) -
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 have (…)
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