Regardless of reverses and record unpopularity, President Macron is pushing through the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years - against the resistance of wage earners, trade unions and you Read more...

General strike is the solution!

Down with Macron and the antidemocratic Fifth Republic! Read more...

After six days of strike action and demonstrations in France the confrontation between workers and the government over the issue of the pension “reform” is reaching a decisive moment. Read more...

The numbers speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. Read more...

The long death agony of the French Nouveau parti anticapitaliste has reached its terminal stage following a walk-out of its recent conference by the former leadership. Read more...

For almost a year, the French workers have mobilised in a series of strikes across the country which gained momentum after the summer. Read more...

France has had a long season of elections. It started last autumn with the presidential campaign, including primaries in the major parties, that generated a xenophobic, anti-migrant climate. Read more...

“French people if you want it, with your ballots you can satisfy many essential demands”. Read more...

The second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April saw Emmanuel Macron, an arrogant neoliberal ‘reformer’, returned to the Elysée for a second term. Read more...

This Sunday's second round of the French presidential election pits the incumbent, authoritarian neoliberal Emmanuel Macron, against veteran far right racist Marine Le Pen. Read more...

The winner of the presidential election in France is effectively a foregone conclusion. Read more...

Less than a hundred days before the first round of the presidential election on April 10, the strike by French teachers has been massive, determined and very combative. Read more...

Every Saturday, from mid-July to the end of August, about 200,000 people protested in France against the introduction of a health pass. Read more...

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150 years ago, on 18 March 1871, after France had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian war, the French army planned to disarm the National Guard of Paris and seize 227 artillery pieces that the people Read more...

On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...

The second wave of the pandemic, combined with a second month-long lockdown, are certainly far from the best conditions to organise a fight back against President Emmanuel Macron’s draconian new globa Read more...

“We are at war. The whole action of the government and of Parliament should now be turned towards the combat against the epidemic. […] We are at war. Read more...

Le mouvement de lutte contre la reforme des retraite est à un tournant, après deux mois d’action de masse qui non seulement ont appris ce qu’est la peur à Macron, mais qui sont aussi devenus une sourc Read more...

The strike movement against the pension reform is at a turning point after two months of mass action that not only put the fear of god into Macron, but also became an inspiration for millions across E Read more...

ON FRIDAY 10 January, workers across France walked out for the 37th day of strikes and demonstrations against the Macron government’s attempt to raise the retirement age and introduce massive cuts to Read more...

One and a half million on more than 200 demonstrations across France. Read more...

A prolonged strike in Accident and Emergency departments throughout the country, a successful strike on the Paris metro on September 13, with an indefinite stoppage forecast for December, a national d Read more...

At the beginning of his term of office, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced that his election heralded a “new world", no less. Read more...

The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) are spreading around Europe and gaining support and sympathy from a wide variety of political forces, from the extreme right to the radical left. Read more...

We are witnessing another of France’s powerful social movements. This time it is directed against the increasingly unpopular President Emmanuel Macron and his supposed eco-tax on petroleum products. Read more...

With a successful day of action on October 9, the major trade unions, CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU, which organise the most combative sectors of the French working class, have shown that they are still a Read more...

Fifty years ago this month, France was rocked by the biggest general strike in European history. Read more...