France
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.
France: Opportunist “lefts” unite with CGT to derail fight for jobs
By Pierre Mabut, September 24, 2009
A demonstration of auto industry workers provides an object lesson in how the trade unions, aided and abetted by the middle class opportunists of Lutte Ouvrière and the New Anti-Capitalist Party, are...
France: parliamentary mission against burqa promotes anti-Muslim prejudice
By Antoine Lerougetel, September 19, 2009
The French parliamentary mission of inquiry on the burqa held its second session September 9. It is widely assumed to be preparing a law banning women from wearing the body-covering burqa in public.
France: Socialist Party, “far left” signal support for right-wing alliance
By Kumaran Ira, September 17, 2009
Proposals for an alliance between the Socialist Party and the right-wing MoDem signal preparations for a rightward lurch in French bourgeois politics.
France’s “national subscription” prepares massive handout to big business
By Pierre Mabut, September 14, 2009
On August 26, French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a commission to establish “strategic priorities” for the investment of money to be raised in a giant “national subscription” (i.e. gover...
