The 2012 French Presidential Elections
French social democrats adopt new cuts after accepting pro-austerity Gallois report
By Antoine Lerougetel, November 7, 2012
The Socialist Party (PS) government of President François Hollande announced tens of billions of new budget cuts yesterday.
The New Anti-capitalist Party and the expulsion of the Roma from France
By Anthony Torres, Alex Lantier, October 31, 2012
The NPA attempts to hide its political culpability in the persecution of the Roma by maintaining a virtual silence on the subject.
Popular confidence in new French president already falling
By Pierre Mabut, July 20, 2012
A prominent pollster recently found that 50 percent of the French population do not believe that new Socialist Party president François Hollande will keep to his election promises.
French President Hollande prepares assault on the working class
By Antoine Lerougetel, June 20, 2012
Statements by top Socialist Party leaders reveal the right-wing course the new government in France will pursue.
New Anti-capitalist Party presses for Socialist Party government in France
By Antoine Lerougetel, June 12, 2012
The NPA is applauding projections that the Socialist Party of President François Hollande could win a parliamentary majority in the June 17 second round legislative election.
Bourgeois “left” wins plurality in first round of French legislative elections
By Alex Lantier, June 11, 2012
Bourgeois “left” parties led by the Socialist Party (PS) of newly elected President François Hollande won a 47 percent plurality in legislative elections yesterday.
Socialist Party leads in French parliamentary elections
By Antoine Lerougetel, June 8, 2012
The French legislative elections will take place on June 10 and 17.
French election: The Left Front’s Mélenchon stands against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
By Francis Dubois, May 25, 2012
The Left Front announced on May 15 that Jean-Luc Mélenchon would stand against the neo-fascist Marine Le Pen in Hénin-Beaumont in the legislative elections.
France’s New Anti-capitalist Party applauds President Hollande’s election
By Kumaran Ira, May 22, 2012
The petty-bourgeois “left” New Anti-capitalist Party has applauded the election of President of François Hollande, the big-business Socialist Party’s candidate.
Socialist Party appoints anti-worker interim government in France
By Antoine Lerougetel, May 18, 2012
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault unveiled France’s new interim government yesterday.
French President Hollande attends Berlin summit after inauguration
By Alex Lantier, May 16, 2012
French President François Hollande flew directly from his inauguration in Paris yesterday to Berlin, to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
How the Lutte Ouvrière group backed Hollande in the French elections
By Francis Dubois, May 14, 2012
The petty-bourgeois group Workers Struggle (LO) said it has no objection to a vote for François Hollande of the Socialist Party.
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