https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/country/eu-franchttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/blfz-j08.htmlThe E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:20:06 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/7413109f-cb1a-4311-a57c-c8190be675aM/blfz-j08.html2026-06-08T19:20:06Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/19/bidz-m19.htmlThe bloody US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the resulting blockade of the vital Strait of Hormuz threaten workers around the world with economic and financial collapse.Tue, 19 May 2026 05:44:13 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d36e68ad-5103-4a91-aa2b-e9efc7c3d3bM/bidz-m19.html2026-05-19T05:44:13Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/vdut-m15.htmlSunday, May 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on TF1 a candidacy not to mobilize workers against austerity and the war against Iran but to smother that mobilization within a nationalist orientation toward French capitalist institutions.Fri, 15 May 2026 04:43:36 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f1fceb45-66dd-4109-a52a-ca811ce7f61O/vdut-m15.html2026-05-15T04:43:36Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/zyso-m15.htmlThis speech was delivered by Alex Lantier, Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.Fri, 15 May 2026 02:17:29 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f48901ab-4ea4-4fa7-9cc1-c2506e9f140M/zyso-m15.html2026-05-15T02:17:29Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/tcvm-m12.htmlAuthorities claim the virus poses a very low risk to the public even as they mention the threat of a pandemic like COVID-19 and transport passengers to top-level biosecurity facilities.Tue, 12 May 2026 03:40:59 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/af0e87e6-818d-433f-af33-8f2b8fbe3ddA/tcvm-m12.html2026-05-12T03:40:59Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/05/scwl-m05.htmlAgainst the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly.Tue, 05 May 2026 02:28:13 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4fb41359-80f1-45f1-b3e9-ee76f23fe8dH/scwl-m05.html2026-05-05T02:28:13Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/04/tqgh-m04.htmlIn a joint letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on April 27, almost 150 organisations—including social care workers, refugee charities, and fostering groups—accused the government of a “sustained attack on children’s rights.”Mon, 04 May 2026 17:06:52 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d03da017-c501-4121-bde6-13a69580cc7G/tqgh-m04.html2026-05-04T17:06:52Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/30/gpvx-a30.htmlIgnoring the economic catastrophe threatened by Trump’s blockade of Iran, Macron is instead focused on using the energy crisis to justify imposing austerity measures already rejected by the French people.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:04:12 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ebe20b52-cee3-4401-898d-8f58a537b92L/gpvx-a30.html2026-04-30T03:04:12Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/pfej-a18.htmlThe flurry of announcements, while they produced a sharp fall in oil prices, has neither produced a lasting peace nor resolved any of the fundamental conflicts underlying the war.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:24:55 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/535b3e71-fb1d-434b-88ad-1c12e9017faJ/pfej-a18.html2026-04-18T00:24:55Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/16/airy-a16.htmlMélenchon organised no significant mobilisation of workers against the war in Iran, while remaining silent about the intrigues Trump used to prepare it.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:51:17 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/337474a8-6c3d-497e-a8ae-35a928ed0d1M/airy-a16.html2026-04-16T23:51:17Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/16/kqgy-a16.htmlAt the same time, European governments refused to clearly denounce or oppose a US blockade that threatens to cut off their access to energy supplies on which their economies depend.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:31:08 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4032dcaa-7e50-4467-9da2-1075adf17ffD/kqgy-a16.html2026-04-16T01:31:08Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/13/ycwk-a13.htmlTrump’s denunciations of the Macron government reveal the irreconcilable conflicts between the major imperialist powers underlying US imperialism’s war of aggression against Iran.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:23:04 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/7ee3bc37-ee59-4ab5-9382-353ed47b613D/ycwk-a13.html2026-04-13T04:23:04Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/08/qedd-a08.htmlWhile it has sought to distance itself from Trump’s most undeniably genocidal statements, Paris has made itself complicit in crimes against humanity.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:12:20 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/bbe944d7-f5e6-4508-9c87-238edd75408F/qedd-a08.html2026-04-08T05:12:20Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/12/lgjr-m12.htmlOn Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived by helicopter on the nuclear-armed aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to announce that France would lead a European naval group in the Middle East.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:25:46 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b9ea71c4-b548-46ba-9d6a-e46b2bee9bdC/lgjr-m12.html2026-03-12T04:25:46Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/06/ybxp-m06.htmlMacron did not bother to even go through the motions of parliamentary debate and approval of his war policy, instead unilaterally committing his government to a war that threatens the world with economic and military catastrophe.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:55:02 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c3ad8234-ecff-4dc2-a977-f3ea75b7855K/ybxp-m06.html2026-03-06T05:55:02Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/03/inab-m03.htmlThe political front mounted against LFI, encompassing far-right groups, the Socialist Party, the National Rally, and Macron's government, is waging an offensive against democratic rights and the growing opposition to the establishment of a police state.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:26:14 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/058ae033-6535-4370-9e50-7e498322dcdJ/inab-m03.html2026-03-03T18:26:14Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/23/mdwy-f23.htmlA political front, embracing fascist groups, the Socialist Party, the extreme right National Rally, all the way up to Macron and his government, seeks to clear the way for either of RN’s candidates, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella, to assume power after the current local elections and presidential elections next year.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:26:52 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e3e67ce2-68cf-473c-93e7-3aa5999bd9fB/mdwy-f23.html2026-02-23T18:26:52Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/20/pvuw-f20.htmlFor the working class the generals’ statement must be seen as a declaration of the class war that must be conducted if imperialist war is to be waged—one emanating from the highest echelons of the military.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:05:03 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3dc25727-f877-4708-8ca5-3de29ca6c52F/pvuw-f20.html2026-02-20T18:05:03Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/20/d5de-f20.htmlThe death of a fascist near an event organised by France Unbowed (La France Insoumise, LFI) has triggered a right-wing rampage in France.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:46:52 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d3e9d686-54a0-4a47-9af5-818eda0a981M/d5de-f20.html2026-02-20T05:46:52Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/18/lkxr-f18.htmlDespite its damning exposures, the Human Rights Commission’s report will not lessen French colonial domination, sustained for over 170 years by brute military force.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:05:08 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a2a3737b-488a-494f-adc8-ff972b65757A/lkxr-f18.html2026-02-18T03:05:08Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/28/zayy-j28.htmlAs Minneapolis workers mobilize and strike against ICE's extrajudicial political executions of US citizens, France Unbowed is defending Macron's left flank and his sycophantic texts to Trump.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:17:36 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3cd11dd2-ccdd-4cb2-bd1b-89b5d33655dI/zayy-j28.html2026-01-28T05:17:36Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/26/xrib-j26.htmlThe Élysée Oudinot Accord presents another neo-colonial constitutional order designed to secure French strategic interests in the Pacific.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:22:44 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4cd8b5db-935e-4a3b-870d-4e2dad9934cA/xrib-j26.html2026-01-26T03:22:44Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/22/dszi-j22.htmlThe Labour government’s brutal anti-immigration programme, centred on attacking asylum seekers, is being ramped up as it seeks to outcompete the far-right Reform UK.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:19:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/66bd5ea9-d932-4a3e-91b5-a18266f3ef0O/dszi-j22.html2026-01-22T20:19:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/22/wjml-j22.htmlThe budget presented by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirms the crisis of French democracy and the complicity of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New Popular Front.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:52:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/75ac7079-db84-4a43-a958-9375e9660a1E/wjml-j22.html2026-01-22T03:52:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/19/tccn-j19.htmlUS-European relations are teetering on the brink of collapse, amid growing threats of trade and military conflict among the major imperialist powers of the NATO alliance.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:24:08 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d6fa450a-edb4-4a5c-a980-903d14bd1c8C/tccn-j19.html2026-01-19T05:24:08Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/17/husm-j17.htmlWSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris area on Trump’s military operation against Venezuela to kidnap its president and try to seize its oil revenues. Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:29:06 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/67fc4e47-f244-49cc-9c9f-c45722b9ef5M/husm-j17.html2026-01-17T06:29:06Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/17/mceo-j17.htmlWorkers cannot stop imperialism’s accelerating plunge into military dictatorship and wars of plunder without breaking politically with forces like Mélenchon, who calls for them to subordinate themselves to the Venezuelan bourgeois nationalist regime’s negotiations with Trump.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:27:14 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a31c4e35-483f-4504-b3a8-bbeec9dcc14F/mceo-j17.html2026-01-17T06:27:14Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/14/bkxd-j14.htmlThe reintroduction and expansion of conscription is a direct result of the military rearmament in the NATO war against Russia and the preparation for a Third World War.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:29:26 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/abcdee19-ca3a-4e1f-8c63-74ef0fb9a74M/bkxd-j14.html2026-01-14T04:29:26Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/08/yyhx-j08.htmlThe task of averting a catastrophic escalation falls to the working class, in a struggle to rise up and take power out of the hands of the representatives of the capitalist oligarchy.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:26:44 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/0495d338-4e01-45e4-86e0-bcd3f56987cL/yyhx-j08.html2026-01-08T06:26:44Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/06/hbhe-j06.htmlThe schizophrenia of the European powers, who invoke international law all the more loudly the more openly they violate it, is an expression of the political dilemma in which they find themselves. They need the US for the war against Russia in Ukraine but view it as an increasing threat.Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:48:31 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e43a3a16-0df9-4d92-9b15-9b370db0ab2K/hbhe-j06.html2026-01-06T05:48:31Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/23/ahay-d23.htmlMacron is seeking to push through an agreement that maintains the Pacific colony as a state within the French Constitution.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:12:22 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a1a1693c-46c4-49de-84bf-2eb1dbf90d4C/ahay-d23.html2025-12-23T01:12:22Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/12/wgss-d12.htmlAfter four years of war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, and millions of refugees, NATO's war against Russia has reached an impasse.Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:53:30 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/5a651900-50bf-43c0-87c9-adc9d150b42M/wgss-d12.html2025-12-12T02:53:30Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/28/qprq-n28.htmlThe crisis of US imperialism is driving not only American but also European society towards a revolutionary confrontation.Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:58:04 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/8fcc6f61-c773-4ea6-9311-1d89915522eJ/qprq-n28.html2025-11-28T06:58:04Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/14/pmzz-n14.htmlIf Mamdani’s victory reflects the growing voter support for socialism in the United States, Mélenchon applauds it in order to block the independent mobilization of the working class that is necessary to bring down Trump in the US and Macron in France.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:21:20 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/1b1cf169-04c7-4c86-b658-948d074e939O/pmzz-n14.html2025-11-14T03:21:20Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/14/codu-n14.htmlBy working to block and strangle the class struggle, Mélenchon’s organization enabled Macron to install a new right-wing government that rules against the people.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:17:45 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d0b9ed6a-11c1-453c-b53f-92298106348D/codu-n14.html2025-11-14T03:17:45Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/05/pkgp-n05.htmlTwo brothers and their girlfriends are confined to the brothers’ family home in the countryside southwest of Paris.Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:52:23 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/cb955284-7182-4e7b-b131-6327d1b6c71M/pkgp-n05.html2025-11-05T05:52:23Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/29/uwxj-o29.htmlFor millions, Biya’s “victory” is the continuation of a nightmare that began in 1982, when he first assumed power, before most Cameroonians were born. The crisis could fuel the kind of Gen Z mass protests that have erupted in Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Angola and Kenya.Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:27:22 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/174aa27c-e7ee-44df-a9a1-ddc8b18eff7J/uwxj-o29.html2025-10-29T18:27:22Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/17/upzz-o17.htmlThe Socialist Party’s support for Macron’s hated minority government exposes the New Popular Front of which it is a part, and shows that workers must mobilize against Macron independently of it.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:51:19 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/8ffee72b-79d6-43be-8d80-36f51149691A/upzz-o17.html2025-10-17T10:51:19Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/15/ehwu-o15.htmlNot one of the assembled speakers even mentioned events in the United States, where President Donald Trump is erecting a presidential dictatorship based on the military, police and fascist agitators.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:50:54 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/7401d375-d867-4bff-82a8-400c07fc36cH/ehwu-o15.html2025-10-15T18:50:54Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/13/mbdp-o13.htmlThe Macron administration is setting out to build a fascistic dictatorship in France, paralleling Trump’s civil war policies in America, against mass working class opposition.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:23:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/70d64c95-e6f1-4f51-b286-fbb5786fc9fG/mbdp-o13.html2025-10-13T10:23:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/13/ihfr-o13.htmlThe resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu after only 27 days in office and his reappointment Friday evening is not simply another government crisis, such as France has repeatedly experienced over the past three decades. It is a crisis of capitalist rule.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:14:06 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fd12e7da-57a6-4773-b09e-b65bba2e2f3O/ihfr-o13.html2025-10-13T01:14:06Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/10/kwcp-o10.htmlA government led by the bourgeois PS under a despised “president of the rich” would impose the diktat of the banks and strengthen neo-fascist conspiracies to impose a far-right dictatorship.Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:58:03 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b0eb308d-107c-4fef-8167-b23d6aceff5K/kwcp-o10.html2025-10-10T11:58:03Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/07/kmep-o07.htmlWhile Prime Minister Sébastier Lecornu was unpopular, falling to 15 percent in the polls in just a few weeks, his resignation reflects not a revitalization but a mortal crisis of French democracy.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:42:03 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/232cb83b-b390-4927-b939-15578677e46J/kmep-o07.html2025-10-07T12:42:03Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/24/dkzl-s24.htmlDespite rhetoric on “self-organization,” RP in reality tries to limit workers' struggles to a national perspective subordinated to the existing union bureaucracies.Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:30:38 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/93596bff-c489-4692-b1ec-48c1aec5319L/dkzl-s24.html2025-09-24T03:30:38Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/23/glem-s23.htmlOpposition is continuing to mount at President Emmanuel Macron’s funding war and military spending increases via social cuts.Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:49:14 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/01b25d61-4ef7-4708-9bfc-d96c664c092I/glem-s23.html2025-09-23T02:49:14Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/18/tvsu-s18.htmlAs workers strike for today’s nationwide day of action, they face the task of breaking free of bureaucracies that police the class struggle and enable the capitalist state to rule against the people.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:06:03 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fbc019b1-9d2c-4100-989c-07c41d8608fO/tvsu-s18.html2025-09-18T04:06:03Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/13/ghot-s13.htmlMélenchon calls to just let the crisis “ripen,” but a socialist struggle must be waged in the working class to build rank-and-file organizations of struggle, and avert new sell-outs as in the 2023 French pensions struggle.Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:51:01 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d6d5eaa3-c213-4a27-8d1e-53c526893bfN/ghot-s13.html2025-09-13T03:51:01Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/11/msgb-s11.htmlHundred of thousands of people joined yesterday’s nationwide “Block Everything” protests against the budget crisis and the naming of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister.Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:22:53 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/0a6173cd-1890-477a-9ddd-dac41b359a8O/msgb-s11.html2025-09-11T05:22:53Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/10/bvql-s10.htmlProtests are erupting today as the union bureaucracies call protest strikes for next week, with workers and youth across France taking to the streets for “Block Everything” protests.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:42:15 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f938da73-f880-4d21-b05d-263d4b8848fG/bvql-s10.html2025-09-10T02:42:15Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/09/upir-s09.htmlThe call to “Block Everything” on September 10, which points to a fast-growing social radicalization, emerged as the French government moved towards collapse.Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:47:38 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/8c5b5514-068b-4f94-b462-2ab6a1ab842A/upir-s09.html2025-09-09T04:47:38Z