Recording reveals pseudo-left La France Insoumise collusion with Macron in 2016
The manoeuvres of LFI deputy François Ruffin with the former banker and future president have recently been exposed.
•Francis Dubois
Francis Dubois
After student sets himself on fire, French youth protest: “Precariousness kills”
Anas K.’s desperate action and his scathing denunciation of the Macron government and of capitalism have reverberated powerfully among tens of thousands of students who face the same dire conditions.
•Francis Dubois
French courts sabotage probe of official financing of Islamic State terrorism
The French courts are covering for the multibillion-dollar Lafarge corporation and its ties to both the French state and the Islamic State terrorist militia in Syria.
•Francis Dubois
After three-month cover-up, investigation into police assault of “yellow vest” Geneviève Legay transferred to Lyon
The police assault on the septuagenarian in Nice is part of the erection of a police state by the government of the financial aristocracy headed by Macron.
•Francis Dubois
French government threatens bloody crackdown on “yellow vest” protest
Amid rising popular support for demonstrations against austerity and inequality, French officials are warning they will stop at nothing to halt the protests.
•Alex Lantier, Francis Dubois
Macron organises French cabinet reshuffle to pursue austerity and militarism
The government reorganisation will not resolve the crisis of rule emerging from growing working class opposition to Macron's program.
•Francis Dubois
In Rome, Salvini and Le Pen launch campaign for a neo-fascist Europe
Exploiting reactionary austerity policies carried out by social-democratic and pseudo-left parties across Europe, the two neo-fascistic leaders posed as defenders of the peoples of Europe.
•Francis Dubois, Alex Lantier
Macron fails to name new French government
More than ten days after Interior Minister Gérard Collomb resigned, President Emmanuel Macron again missed a self-imposed deadline to name a new government.
•Francis Dubois
French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb’s resignation
Collomb’s resignation has laid bare the weakness of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
•Francis Dubois
Macron whitewashes French state murder of Maurice Audin
Audin’s murder in Algeria constitutes a warning of the nature of imperialist war, which still echoes 60 years on, as NATO intervenes across the Middle East.
•Francis Dubois, Alex Lantier
Macron impeachment mooted as more French ministers resign
Two weeks after Macron called for a “common front” of all his ministers as the school year began, ministers are constantly resigning, throwing into question the survival of the government.
•Francis Dubois
French ministers resign as Macron government plunges in polls
Hostility to President Macron’s agenda is spreading among not only among workers, but also broad sections of small business.
•Francis Dubois
Why are French media obsessed with Ecology Minister Hulot’s resignation?
While the media endlessly discuss the crisis of the government, their obsession with Hulot obscures the deep unpopularity of Macron’s policies of austerity and war.
•Francis Dubois
Arsène Tchakarian (1916-2018): the Manouchian Group’s resistance struggle
There is no doubt that the Stalinists’ decision to sacrifice the Manouchian Group was bound up with their genocidal onslaught against Trotskyism and the Left Opposition.
•Francis Dubois, Alex Lantier
Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France opens summer school with overtures to right-wing parties
Mélenchon’s invitation of right-wing parties to his summer school marks another milestone in the right-wing trajectory of the middle-class pseudo-left.
•Francis Dubois
Arsène Tchakarian (1916–2018): The Manouchian Group’s resistance struggle
Arsène Tchakarian, the last remaining survivor of the famed Manouchian Group of the French Resistance, died on August 4, 2018, at the age of 101.
•Francis Dubois, Alex Lantier
French government announces plan to undermine pension system
While giving tens of billions of euros in tax cuts to the super-rich, President Macron is slashing pensions, eliminating social rights established more than 70 years ago.
•Francis Dubois
Appeal to neo-fascists on police scandal exposes reactionary role of Unsubmissive France
Unsubmissive France is advancing out a populist, anti-worker policy compatible with police repression.
•Francis Dubois
Lafarge investigation exposes US-French collusion with ISIS in Syria
Former Foreign Secretary Laurent Fabius claimed to know nothing about it, but ties between terrorist groups and the former Socialist Party government are rapidly coming to light.
•Francis Dubois
Benalla affair destabilises Macron government in France
The campaign by the police and parliamentary opposition to Macron is aimed at defending the police apparatus and supporting the president’s policies of militarism and austerity.
•Francis Dubois