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The NPA and France’s political-financial scandals

By Pierre Mabut and Alex Lantier, November 19, 2009

The Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste’s (NPA) response to France’s political-financial scandals exemplifies its contempt for working class politics.

France: Former president Jacques Chirac to stand trial for corruption

By Antoine Lerougetel and Alex Lantier, November 11, 2009

Former President Jacques Chirac’s indictment is a major blow to the credibility of the political establishment.

France: The affairs the Clearstream trial aims to suppress

By Alex Lantier, November 7, 2009

A decades-long series of corruption scandals, bound up with oil and arms deals, constitute the essential legal background to the Clearstream Affair.

The Clearstream trial: a conflict in the French bourgeoisie

By Alex Lantier, November 7, 2009

The month-long Clearstream trial, hearings for which ended on October 23, is a cynical judicial façade for ruthless state politics.

The political-financial scandals in France

By Alex Lantier, November 6, 2009

With the indictment of ex-President Jacques Chirac, investigations of France’s political-financial scandals have developed into a full-blown governmental crisis.

France: Sarkozy escalates anti-immigrant campaign

By Pierre Mabut and Antoine Lerougetel, October 31, 2009

France’s minister of immigration and national identity, Eric Besson, has called for a nationwide debate on “national identity” following a month of unprecedented assaults on migrants and refugee...

Paris CGT jobs protest dominated by nationalist politics

By Antoine Lerougetel, October 26, 2009

Some 20,000 industrial workers from all over France converged on Paris last Thursday, in a protest against the wave of plant closures and sackings engulfing their sector. The demonstration was dominat...

France: CGT’s industrial policy means workers will pay for the crisis

By Pierre Mabut and Antoine Lerougetel, October 22, 2009

The French General Confederation of Labour national day of action, in collaboration with the Sarkozy government, is an attempt to deal with the economic crisis at the expense of the working class.

France: New Anti-capitalist Party tries to channel worker discontent with the unions

By Anthony Torres and Alex Lantier, October 21, 2009

Inside the NPA, whose leadership refuses to make any criticism of the CGT union, the Prometheus Collective and Clear Tendency factions are trying to provide a cover for the party under conditions of w...

French President Sarkozy backs Washington’s hard line against Iran

By Antoine Lerougetel, October 20, 2009

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s calls for action against Iran’s nuclear power installations have been greeted with surprise and satisfaction by the American media.

France: New Anti-Capitalist Party prepares “unitary” coalition with state parties

By Kumaran Ira and Antoine Lerougetel, October 9, 2009

The New Anti-Capitalist Party of Olivier Besançenot met with Stalinist and social-democratic parties and the trade unions to further declare its support for an emerging right-wing consensus in the Fr...

France: Brutal eviction of migrants from Calais encampment

By Antoine Lerougetel, September 26, 2009

Hundreds of police officers carried out a brutal raid Tuesday on a camp near Calais, France, home to some 800 undocumented immigrants, mostly Afghans trying to emigrate to Britain.