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The NPA in crisis: We have to explain because we have to start again

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

We will not dwell here on signs that the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis or on comparisons between the dynamics at its foundation with the current situation. The failure is so severe as to be undeniable. We failed.… Continue Reading →

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France after Sarkozy: Confronting the politics of despair

Posted on 28th June 2012 by ISJ

In 1981 the joyous celebrations that greeted François Mitterrand’s election as president, on a radical reform programme, were an expression of widespread hope of significant change. Almost exactly 31 years later the mood following François Hollande’s victory over Nicolas Sarkozy… Continue Reading →

Analysis France

France: anti-capitalist politics in crisis

Posted on 27th March 2012 by ISJ

Undeniably the global economic and political crisis has accelerated a broad process of political radicalisation visible, for example, in the impact of the Occupy movement during the winter of 2011-12. But these developments have not stilled the question of how… Continue Reading →

Analysis France

France: from economic to political struggles

Posted on 16th December 2009 by ISJ

After last year’s huge days of action, demonstrations and the radical conflicts against redundancies in the car industry, has French rebelliousness disappeared over the past few months? Are we witnessing a downturn in struggle as a result of the social… Continue Reading →

Analysis France

New life for the new left

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

Not long ago Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Angela Merkel in Germany and Kostas Karamanlis in Greece presented themselves as politicians who could do for continental European capitalism what Margaret Thatcher did for British capitalism.1 Some on the left took them… Continue Reading →

Analysis France, Germany, Greece, Italy

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