French government rejects lockdown as COVID-19 cases skyrocket past 100,000
The seven-day rolling average of cases in France is now over 70,000, more than 50 percent higher than the previous peak in November 2020.
•Will Morrow
Will Morrow
Fascistic provocateur Eric Zemmour announces his presidential campaign bid in France
For months, even before formally announcing his election campaign, Zemmour has enjoyed widespread coverage in the French media.
•Will Morrow
French health minister rejects lockdown measures as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
Health Minister Véran announced the government’s response to the skyrocketing of COVID-19 cases, with over 33,000 cases reported in 24 hours.
•Will Morrow
Imperialist powers hold Libya “peace” conference, 10 years after NATO war
The same powers professing their commitment to Libyan “self-determination” plunged what was previously among Africa’s wealthiest countries into a bloody civil war.
•Will Morrow
Governments reject pandemic controls amid record COVID-19 surge in Europe
Only a struggle by the working class to impose scientific policies to eliminate the virus can end the current massive surge of deaths.
•Alex Lantier, Will Morrow
French police arrest far-right extremists on charges of preparing a coup d’état
Remy Daillet was allegedly the leader of a 300-person nation-wide fascist paramilitary organisation, which had planned a coup d’état.
•Will Morrow
WHO warns of 500,000 new COVID-19 deaths in Europe by February
As nearly 4,000 people die of COVID-19 daily in Europe, this warning is a political indictment of the ruling elite’s policy of mass infection
•Will Morrow, Alex Lantier
Tens of thousands protest in Rome against fascist anti-vaccine riot
The protest followed a fascist riot which targeted the parliament building and stormed the offices of the CGIL trade union federation on October 9.
•Will Morrow
Mass COVID-19 infections of children follow Macron’s reopening of French schools
The government announced last Friday that 2,366 classrooms had been closed over the previous week, as thousands of children continue to contract the potentially deadly disease.
•Will Morrow
Mélenchon, French unions defend their support for anti-vaccine protests
The opposition of LFI and the trade unions to Macron’s “health pass” is from the right, not the left.
•Will Morrow
Hunger strike of hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium
Over 430 undocumented migrants have staged a hunger strike for more than two months against their brutal treatment by Belgian authorities throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
•Will Morrow
French anti-vaccine protests expose right-wing politics of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Unsubmissive France has sought to promote resistance to vaccinations and undermine public consciousness of the necessity for a continued struggle against the pandemic.
•Will Morrow
Volvo workers strike continues for second day in Ghent, Belgium
The strike takes place as Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia, United States vote on a new contract worked out between the United Auto Workers union and Volvo management.
•Will Morrow, Gregor Link
French unions call token public strikes in railway and airports
While trillions of euros are handed to the banks and corporations in EU bailouts, these measures are to be financed by stepped-up attacks on workers’ social rights.
•Will Morrow
Delta variant of coronavirus fuels rise in cases in Europe
European governments’ stated policy is to rely on belated vaccination programs to blunt the spread of the virus, rejecting social distancing measures that would impact corporate profits.
•Will Morrow
Belgian neo-Nazi fugitive officer Jurgen Conings monitored for years by intelligence agencies
With Conings still on the loose three weeks after threatening to kill virologists, the claim he acted as a lone individual is completely untenable.
•Will Morrow
Macron in Rwanda: French imperialism covers past crimes to prepare new ones
Macron’s speech addressing France’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a cynical attempt at historical falsification and political obfuscation.
•Will Morrow
As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU’s Mediterranean migrant policy
The UN human rights commission branded the EU as jointly responsible for hundreds of entirely preventable deaths in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.
•Will Morrow
Manhunt continues for Belgian neo-Nazi officer who planned to kill virologists
This individual, with documented ties to the far right, was kept in a senior position as a training officer in the Belgian army and given access to the armory.
•Will Morrow
As Indian variant spreads in Europe, governments reopen across the continent
The reopening is taking place amid a competition among the European states over which economy can most quickly restart, and particularly over access to tourism revenue for the Summer holiday season.
•Will Morrow