France
France: Consumer credit reforms benefit finance, trading groups
By Jacques Valentin, July 10, 2009
The Senate, the French parliament’s upper house, has adopted a bill reforming consumer credit. In its current form, it is very favourable to the interests of financial groups and supermarkets, reinf...
French presidential speech
Sarkozy pushes austerity, anti-immigrant chauvinism
By Antoine Lerougetel and Alex Lantier, July 4, 2009
President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a joint session of Congress in Versailles to announce his government’s plans for dealing with the economic crisis and to single out women wearing burqas as “unw...
The French radical “left” chases after social democracy
By Francis Dubois and Pierre Mabut, July 3, 2009
The reaction by the “far left”—the New Anti-capitalist Party and Lutte Ouvrière—and the Left Party to the debacle of social democracy in the June 7 European elections is a further move to the...
Bachelot law accelerates destruction of the French health system
By Olivier Laurent, June 30, 2009
The Sarkozy government’s health reform law, voted through by the senate on June 5, will reduce spending and allow development of the private sector.
How France’s petty-bourgeois “left” betrays workers
The experience of Goodyear and Continental
By Pierre Mabut and Antoine Lerougetel, June 24, 2009
France’s “far left” parties are supporting redundancy packages organised by the trade unions in manufacturing industries hit by the global economic crisis.
Besancenot and the NPA support Sarkozy’s policy on Iran elections
By Peter Schwarz, June 23, 2009
The position of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) on the situation in Iran is fully in line with that of the French government and the established parties of French imperialism.
France offers the United Arab Emirates nuclear protection
By Peter Schwarz, June 19, 2009
In a region dominated by the US for the past 50 years and where America has conducted two major wars—in Iraq and Afghanistan—France is offering nuclear protection to a country without coordinating...
France opens first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf
By Kumaran Ira, June 15, 2009
The inauguration of a French military base in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, demonstrates that French capitalism is eager to secure its interests in the Persian Gulf and has ambit...
European elections
French New Anti-Capitalist Party promotes Keynesian reformism
By Antoine Lerougetel and Alex Lantier, June 6, 2009
The European Union parliamentary election campaign of France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anti-capialiste—NPA) along reformist lines confirms the assessment which the World Socialist...
France: Sarkozy pushes law-and-order in European election campaign
By Francis Dubois, June 5, 2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is using the campaign for the European election in an effort to impose a law-and-order agenda. In the last week of May, the election campaign of the governing conserva...
Questions abound in aftermath of Air France crash
By Stefan Steinberg, June 4, 2009
While much remains to be clarified about the exact circumstances of the catastrophic crash of Air France Flight 447, it should be considered that the tragic accident takes place at a time of fierce co...
French Socialist Party considers alliances to the left and to the right
By Kumaran Ira and Alex Lantier, May 29, 2009
The poor performance of the Socialist Party (PS), France's main bourgeois left party, in the European election campaign is provoking widespread concern in the French political and media establishment ...
