France
French university teachers strike to defend working conditions
By Pierre Mabut, February 13, 2009
Some 100,000 university teachers and students protested in French cities February 10 seeking to force the withdrawal of the Sarkozy government’s decree on the new status of university teachers.
France: A conversation with the NPA’s Alain Krivine
By Alex Lantier, February 12, 2009
This World Socialist Web Site interview with Alain Krivine—a leader of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR)—helps clarify the political significance of the LCR’s decision to dissolve itse...
New Anti-Capitalist Party holds founding congress
By Alex Lantier, February 11, 2009
The New Anti-Capitalist Party founding congress marked a public break with all rhetorical or symbolic association with Trotskyism, a formal repudiation of any association with revolutionary socialist ...
France: LCR dissolves itself to found New Anti-Capitalist Party
By Alex Lantier, February 7, 2009
On February 5, the French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire formally dissolved itself to form the New Anti-Capitalist Party. The move is part of a sharp shift to the right as the LCR seeks to recruit ...
France: What is the LCR’s New Anti-Capitalist Party?
By Alex Lantier, February 5, 2009
The Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire is holding a special Congress on February 5-8 to dissolve its organization and found the New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anti-Capitaliste, NPA). Accordin...
Thousands protest in Paris and Berlin against war in Sri Lanka
By our correspondents, February 5, 2009
Tens of thousands demonstrated in Berlin and Paris Wednesday against the war in Sri Lanka and the murderous assault being carried out by the military against the Tamil population.
France: Socialist Party proposes “counter stimulus plan”
By Francis Dubois and Pierre Mabut, January 31, 2009
The French Socialist Party announced its alternative economic stimulus plan on January 21. The plan closely follows the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund and is not fundamentally diff...
France: Ruling circles shaken by the extent of January 29 protests
By Antoine Lerougetel, January 31, 2009
Ruling circles in France have reacted with considerable nervousness to the massive response to Thursday’s day of action, which saw at least 2.5 million take to the streets.
In run-up to its founding congress
France’s Left Party tries to reorganize French bourgeois left
By Kumaran Ira and Alex Lantier, January 30, 2009
The Left Party is courting virtually the entire French political establishment to the left of the Socialist Party in the hope of forming a large, left coalition that can fill a political vacuum create...
Mass strikes and protests in France against joblessness and austerity measures
By Antoine Lerougetel, January 30, 2009
Thursday’s day of action throughout France in defence of jobs, the purchasing power of wages and social services, brought an estimated 2.5 million workers and youth onto the streets of some 200 citi...
French car industry bailout: a new attack on the working class
By Antoine Lerougetel, January 28, 2009
French Prime Minister François Fillon announced January 20 a plan to inject €5.5 billion into the national car industry in an effort to shield it from the world economic meltdown. This massive tran...
French workers need a socialist perspective to fight the economic crisis
By World Socialist Web Site editorial board, January 28, 2009
The central question facing workers in the January 29 one-day strike and national day of action called by France’s trade unions is one of political perspective: On what basis can working people defe...
