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A reply to John Mullen on the New Popular Front

Posted on 3rd May 2025 by International Socialism

In the previous issue of International Socialism, John Mullen wrote a reply to my article.1 I had criticised the strategy of the Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front; NFP) in light of the history of the original Popular Front in… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised elections, France, popular front

Election campaigns and antifascism in France: a response to Denis Godard

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

Denis Godard’s article in International Socialism 184 aims to assess the situation in France today and sketch out the tasks of the left.1 It also presents the history of the Popular Front in France in the 1930s, intending to draw… Continue Reading →

Article elections, France, Front Populaire

The Popular Front in France: no solution to fascism

Posted on 14th October 2024 by International Socialism

In France this summer, victory seemed promised to Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN; National Rally), following a lightning-fast campaign after snap elections were called by President Emmanuel Macron.1 Instead, the left obtained the largest number of parliamentary seats. To… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, France, popular front

The French impasse

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

In 2023, French workers, young people, migrants and Muslims fought President Emmanuel Macron’s government in a series of explosive battles that saw some of the highest levels of struggle in Europe for many years.1 It is, as one French analysis… Continue Reading →

Article France, Mass strikes, Strikes

Workers shake Macron: snapshots from the struggle in France

Posted on 19th June 2023 by International Socialism

What has been happening in France since January 2023 comes closest—in terms of its breadth and duration—to a revolutionary situation in an advanced capitalist country in decades.1 In addition to the objective factors, such as the deepening contradictions of capitalism… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Article France, neoliberalism, Strikes, Working class

France: a country divided

Posted on 11th June 2022 by International Socialism

The results of the French presidential elections in April 2022 show a level of polarisation in France not seen since the 1930s. Fascist Marine Le Pen of the Rassemblement National (National Rally; NR) party, previously known as the Front National… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, France, the far right

A race to the right: Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen and France’s presidential election

Posted on 2nd April 2022 by International Socialism

The war in Ukraine has reshaped the French presidential election, the first round of which is set to take place on 10 April. President Emmanuel Macron has used the opportunity to portray himself as a global statesman who can bring… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, France, the far right

Repression and resistance on the French home front 1911-1919

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

What means other than war could there be under capitalism to overcome the ­disparity between the development of the productive forces and the accumulation of capital on the one side, and the division of colonies and spheres of influence for… Continue Reading →

Article 20th century history, First World War, France, History

The French quagmire

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Lazy clichés run through the liberal media’s depiction of the so-called ­“ungovernability of France, popular resistance to the advance of neoliberalism that seems so inexorable elsewhere” and the country’s “rigid labour market and work rules that supposedly stand in the… Continue Reading →

Article France, Gilets Jaunes, the far right

Fascism in Europe today

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, France, Germany, The Nazis, Tommy Robinson

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