France
France: €360 billion to bail out the banks
By Antoine Lerougetel, October 20, 2008
The French National Assembly has endorsed the government’s €360 billion rescue plan for the banks by a wide majority.
France: LCR holds meeting for New Anti-Capitalist Party in St. Denis
By Francis Dubois, October 14, 2008
The Revolutionary Communist League held a meeting last month north of Paris in preparation for the LCR’s founding of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in January 2009.
French parliament votes for continued military presence in Afghanistan
By Antoine Lerougetel, September 25, 2008
On September 22, the French National Assembly and the Senate voted for government’s motion approving the continued presence of France’s military contingent in Afghanistan.
French postal service to be privatised
By Olivier Laurent, September 24, 2008
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced September 17 the creation of a commission comprised mostly of political and trade union representatives to discuss the privatisation of the French postal service. I...
The LCR covers for “left” supporters of French imperialism in Afghanistan
Support from the LCR
By Francois Dubois and Peter Schwarz, September 24, 2008
On September 20, demonstrations were held in 10 different French cities demanding the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. Protests against the war in Afghanistan were also held in a number of ...
France: Union thugs threaten immigrants at a Communist Party fair
By Antoine Lerougetel, September 23, 2008
Members of the Coordination des sans Papiers 75 (CSP75), which organises some 2,000 undocumented workers and their families in Paris, are reported to have been told by CGT officials that they would do...
France: Token resistance by the unions to new Renault job cuts
By Antoine Lerougetel, September 17, 2008
The French Renault car manufacturing group announced September 9 a plan to cut 3,000 jobs in France, mainly white collar workers, in addition to the 1,000 job losses already scheduled at the Sandouvil...
French President Sarkozy visits Syria to seek new alliances
By Pierre Mabut, September 15, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a two-day visit to the Syrian capital Damascus on September 3-4 to continue Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations brokered by France, Qatar and Turkey.
War in Georgia: French LCR mimics Sarkozy’s foreign policy
Balkanisation of the Caucasus
By Peter Schwarz, September 13, 2008
The true class orientation of a party is often revealed in the way it reacts to important political events—by its ability to evaluate new developments and to provide a correct political orientat...
France: Socialist Party and unions support government cheap labour scheme
By Antoine Lerougetel, September 9, 2008
As the return to work following the summer holidays gets under way in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has attempted to head off a continuation and intensification of widespread protests against pric...
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
The political background of Pierre Lambert
By Peter Schwarz, September 8, 2008
This is the eighth and final part in a series of articles dealing with the events of May/June 1968 in France.
Controversy continues over French soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan
By Olivier Laurent, September 8, 2008
Further information has emerged about the August 18 ambush that killed 10 French soldiers in Afghanistan and wounded 23 more in the valley of Uzbeen.
