Behind the Olympic razzamatazz in France, the authoritarian president is planning to defy election results
Election results in France bring joy but also reveal a difficult road ahead
The victory of the far-right Rassemblement National in the first round of elections could give France its first fascist government since the Nazi occupation, but the left has also made advances. John Mullen outlines an anticapitalist perspective on the political crisis in France.
One week before elections
What should anticapitalists do ?
Macron and Le Pen - not a duel: more like a duet!
As Macron’s government, under new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, moves ever further to the right, once again a radical mass movement is shaking the country.
Last Sunday 12th November, leaders of Macron’s governing party in France marched alongside fascists on a mass demonstration in Paris, pretending to oppose rising antisemitism, but in fact aiming at crippling the pro Palestine movement
Macron uses Abaya ban to whip up Islamophobia
France is facing riots and protests after the police were caught on video murdering a 17 year old
An explicitly anti-racist politics is required to stop the current wave of protests in France from splintering and strengthening the far-right
Protests against Macron are at a stalemate. They must escalate if they are to retain their momentum