France
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.
