France
France: Thousands demonstrate against postal service privatisation
By Olivier Laurent and Antoine Lerougetel, November 26, 2008
Demonstrations took place in towns across France on Saturday against the planned privatization of the postal service.
France: Hundreds of thousands strike and march against education cuts
By our reporters, November 22, 2008
Half of all France’s teachers, some 400,000 throughout the national school system, struck and up to 200,000 took to the streets in a hundred cities last Thursday in the fourth day of action in educa...
France: Alain Krivine explains the role of the
By Peter Schwarz, November 21, 2008
Krivine’s interview in the Internet publication Médiapart throws light on the programme and political role of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), which the LCR plans to found at the end of January...
French Socialist Party remains deeply divided following Reims congress
By Francis Dubois, November 18, 2008
The congress of the French Socialist Party held November 14-16 in Reims, attended by about 4,000 people, ended in a state of open division.
French railway workers: “An international struggle is necessary”
November 18, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site interviewed CGT marchers on Thursday’s European-wide demonstration of railway workers in Paris against privatisation.
France: Transport workers mobilise against privatisation
By Antoine Lerougetel, November 18, 2008
Tens of thousands of workers from 15 European countries demonstrated in Paris last Thursday against the privatisation of the railways.
France: Renault workers march to defend jobs as recession deepens
By Antoine Lerougetel, November 12, 2008
Some 3,000 people, including Renault workers from the Sandouville plant, joined a regional demonstration in Le Havre last Saturday in defence of jobs and social services.
French Socialist Party to elect new leadership
By Peter Schwarz, November 12, 2008
Eighteen months after their defeat in the 2007 presidential election, the French Socialist Party is still deeply divided. On November 14-16 the party will hold a congress in Reims to elect a new leade...
France: Train drivers strike against attacks on working conditions
By Antoine Lerougetel, November 7, 2008
Train services throughout France were heavily disrupted as train drivers strongly supported the call for a one-day strike on Thursday, November 6.
Hopes and illusions dominate European reaction to Obama victory
By Ulrich Rippert, November 6, 2008
European leaders and media have reacted to the election victory of Barack Obama with a mixture of illusions and expectations.
Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies
By Peter Schwarz, October 29, 2008
Right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to protect “strategically important” French enterprises against their take-over by foreign investors receives support from German “lefts.”
French Airbus worker: “Boeing and Airbus workers have the same enemy—we should fight them together”
By Antoine Lerougetel, October 24, 2008
The WSWS interviewed a worker at the Nantes Airbus plant in western France.
