France
France: Millions strike and march against austerity
By Antoine Lerougetel, March 20, 2009
Several million workers and youth took to the streets in 213 cities and towns throughout France yesterday, in opposition to rising poverty, rapidly growing unemployment and government austerity polici...
France moves towards reintegration into NATO
By Alex Lantier, March 19, 2009
France’s National Assembly has voted its approval for the foreign policy of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister François Fillon, including Sarkozy’s plans to fully reintegrate France int...
Paris meeting advances socialist program to end war in Sri Lanka
By Antoine Lerougetel, March 18, 2009
A meeting organised by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International was held in Paris on March 15 to discuss a socialist program to end the civil war in Sri...
France: What are the politics of the March 19 demonstration?
By Alex Lantier, March 18, 2009
The legitimate anger of millions of workers who will participate in them notwithstanding, the March 19 demonstrations are a political fraud perpetrated on the workers by the unions and the left partie...
Nantes, France: Workers conduct five-day occupation of Goss International factory
By Gustav Kemper, March 14, 2009
On March 6, 300 workers occupied the Goss International plant in Nantes, France over the threat to their jobs.
France: Protests continue against Sarkozy’s university reforms
By Pierre Mabut, March 11, 2009
Five weeks of strikes and protests by university teachers and students against government reforms have maintained their momentum.
ICFI/SEP public meeting in Paris
Sri Lankan troops out of the north and east!
The socialist program to end the war in Sri Lanka
March 10, 2009
The ICFI and the Socialist Equality Party are holding a public meeting in Paris, France on March 15 to discuss a socialist program to end the war in Sri Lanka and secure the democratic rights of the T...
LKP calls off Guadeloupe general strike as walkouts spread to La Réunion
By Antoine Lerougetel, March 9, 2009
The mass protests and strikes against high prices and low wages in Guadeloupe and Martinique continue, despite the calling off of the Guadeloupe general strike by the LKP.
Guadeloupe: Striker killed in repression of general strike
Sarkozy government sends 300 police reinforcements
By Antoine Lerougetel, February 20, 2009
The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy has responded to the general strike in Guadeloupe by escalating the repression that resulted in the death of a striker, Jacques Bino.
Demands for state repression of “insurrectionary” Guadeloupe and Martinique general strikes
By Antoine Lerougetel, February 16, 2009
General strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique have now lasted almost four weeks and two weeks, respectively. Demonstrations have mobilized as many as 100,000 of Guadeloupe’s 500,000 inhabitants and 2...
France: the bourgeoisie sizes up the New Anti-Capitalist Party
By Alex Lantier, February 16, 2009
In the week since the founding congress of the New Anti-Capitalist Party of Alain Krivine and Olivier Besancenot, the French bourgeois press has made its initial assessment.
French President Sarkozy visits Baghdad
By Alex Lantier, February 14, 2009
Highlighting President Nicolas Sarkozy’s backing for the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, his trip to the Middle East managed to focus opposition to his foreign policy within the French p...
