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

Posted on 2nd April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

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 Richard Donnelly

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

How not to resist racism: a lesson from France

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jim Wolfreys, Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France (Hurst, 2018), £14.99 This April, French president Emmanuel Macron urged Catholic bishops to “engage once again” with the “political scene” and “repair” the relationship between… Continue Reading →

Book reviews France, Islamophobia, Racism

The Third Republic, the war and the mutiny in the French Army in 1917

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

As France entered the 20th century, it embodied, for many people, and to many socialists, the ideals of liberty, egality and fraternity that had been the pillars underpinning the revolution of 1789. Surrounded on all sides by kingdoms and empires,… Continue Reading →

Article First World War, France

Interview: The meaning of Macron

Posted on 19th June 2017 by Camilla

French activist Vanina Giudicelli spoke to Dave Sewell about the recent ­presidential election in France, the turmoil in the mainstream parties and the prospects for anti-racists. DS: How would you describe Emmanuel Macron and his government? What form does it… Continue Reading →

Interview Emmanuel Macron, France, The Front National

After the Paris attacks: An Islamophobic spiral

Posted on 11th April 2015 by ISJ

“There will be a before and an after,” French prime minister Manuel Valls declared in the wake of the appalling murders that took place in Paris in early 2015, the slaughter of a dozen people at the Charlie Hebdo offices… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised France, Islamophobia

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 →

Feedback France

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 →

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