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5 September 2008
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in
France
Part 6: The centrist line of the OCI (2)
4 September 2008
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in
France
Part 5: The centrist line of the OCI (1)
2 September 2008
France:
trade unions warn government against social explosion
23 August 2008
France: Stalinist paper l'Humanité on
verge of bankruptcy
22 August 2008
After 10 soldiers are killed
French government, media scramble to contain opposition to Afghan
deployment
21 August 2008
French
troops killed in Afghanistan: another sign of an escalating war
9 August 2008
France:
Constitutional reform strengthens presidency
2 August 2008
As
European car market shrinks, Renault plans mass sackings
1 August 2008
French
nuclear industry has repeated accidents
26 July 2008
End
of the 35-hour week in France: Sarkozy handed victory by the
unions and "left" parties
France: Sarkozy embarrasses his allies in the trade
union bureaucracy
24 July 2008
White
Paper on defense: the French bourgeoisie prepares for war
23 July 2008
France:
Sarkozy government implements repressive police measures
Amiens, France: Goodyear tyre workers face attacks
on jobs and conditions
16 July 2008
France
bids to extend its influence through founding of Mediterranean
Union
12 July 2008
French
LCR-PCF debate: a dialog of political opportunists
9 July 2008
Immigrants'
occupation of CGT hall in Paris under immense pressure from unions
French president lashes out at popular opposition
7 July 2008
1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 4--How Alain Krivine's JCR covered for the betrayals
of Stalinism (2)
5 July 2008
1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 3--How Alain Krivine's JCR covered for the betrayals
of Stalinism (1)
30 June 2008
France:
How the unions broke an offensive of the working class
28 June 2008
France:
Immigrant retention centre burnt down following death of inmate
26 June 2008
French
President Sarkozy visits Israel to broker regional realignment
24 June 2008
France:
Low turnout for pension rights protest
17 June 2008
France:
Break with the trade union collaborators of Sarkozy! Build an
independent socialist movement of the working class!
16 June 2008
France:
Unions collaborate with employers, government to deregulate working
hours
10 June 2008
France:
LCR signals willingness to ally with Socialist Party
5 June 2008
France: Sans papiers continue occupation of
CGT union hall
31 May 2008
French
government prepares new cuts in unemployment compensation
29 May 2008
1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 2--The betrayal of the PCF and CGT
28 May 2008
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in
France
Part 1--A revolutionary situation develops
27 May 2008
French
media lay out the red carpet for Olivier Besancenot
France: Fishermen strike against rising energy prices
24 May 2008
French
workers' protests say 'No!' to pension reform
20 May 2008
France:
LCR backs the CGT against undocumented workers
17 May 2008
France:
One million strike in defence of education and social services
15 May 2008
Defend
public education against Sarkozy's cuts! Unite workers and youth
across Europe and internationally!
6 May 2008
Undocumented
workers occupy CGT union hall in Paris
5 May 2008
France:
Government, unions prepare large-scale pension cut
2 May 2008
New
French labour law attacks workers' rights
France: Undocumented immigrants strike wins support
1 May 2008
France:
CGT union betrays port workers' strike
France: Thousands of high school students protest
cuts in education
28 April 2008
Sarkozy
television interview seeks to reassure French corporate elite
26 April 2008
French
school students maintain protests against Sarkozy's education
reforms
25 April 2008
France:
union reforms highlight Sarkozy-CGT alliance
French immigration policy and the death of Baba Traoré
19 April 2008
France: Strikes continue at Le Monde
16 April 2008
France: Le Monde journalists on strike
14 April 2008
French
government slashes public spending
12 April 2008
French
high school students protest education cuts
5 April 2008
France:
Political fallout from troop deployment to Afghanistan
31 March 2008
Sarkozy
strives to establish French-British axis
25 March 2008
Paris
meeting commemorates the life and work of Keerthi Balasuriya
18 March 2008
French
local elections reveal discrediting of political establishment
17 March 2008
France:
LCR leader Daniel Bensaïd reassures Socialist Party of his
collaboration
13 March 2008
French
municipal elections: A setback for President Sarkozy
Tensions between France and Germany intensify over
foreign and economic policy
12 March 2008
France
considers sending more troops to Afghanistan
10 March 2008
France:
political crisis destabilizes Sarkozy
5 March 2008
France:
LCR congress decides to found new party
3 March 2008
Commemoration
of the first anniversary of the death of Raveenthiranathan Senthil
Ravee held in Paris.
27 February 2008
Divisions in ruling party
Former Prime Minister de Villepin signs appeal directed against
French President Sarkozy
26 February 2008
Public
meeting in Paris: Twentieth anniversary of the death of Trotskyist
leader Keerthi Balasuriya
21 February 2008
France:
Marseilles retail strike called off after two weeks
20 February 2008
France:
Massive police raid on Villiers-le-Bel
19 February 2008
French
municipal elections expose crisis of the political establishment
16 February 2008
France:
Sarkozy wins vote on EU treaty with help of Socialist Party
15 February 2008
French
housing report exposes government inaction
6 February 2008
France:
Thousands of retail workers strike for better wages and conditions
4 February 2008
France:
Mass demonstrations against social austerity plans
1 February 2008
France:
Attali report calls for free-market reforms
31 January 2008
France:
Pierre Lambert's funeral underscores OCI's long-standing opportunism
29 January 2008
France:
Trader accuses Société Générale of
using him as a "smokescreen"
25 January 2008
France's
second-largest bank blames "rogue" trader for $7.2
billion loss
France: Unions, employers sign labour reform gutting
workers' rights
24 January 2008
France
obtains energy deals, establishes first military base in Persian
Gulf
22 January 2008
France:
the politics of the National Student Coordinating Committee and
the role of the LCR
21 January 2008
Obituary:
French revisionist Pierre Lambert dies aged 87
16 January 2008
France:
Police-state measures against immigrants provoke resistance
10 January 2008
The wages of betrayal
France: Top union pension negotiator gets lucrative promotion
7 January 2008
France:
Students need a socialist perspective and a turn to the working
class
4 January 2008
Report
documents growth of social inequality in France
Detained immigrants on hunger strike in France: "We
refuse to be treated as sub-humans"
3 January 2008
France:
social cuts announced over Christmas holidays
2 January 2008
French
President Sarkozy visits Afghanistan
20 December 2007
France:
A sharp increase in police repression
14 December 2007
France:
One-day rail strikes in defence of pensions called off
13 December 2007
France:
Socialist Party, "far left" move towards electoral
alliance
10 December 2007
Discussion on the lessons of the French strikes
Workers must have "a way of acting politically on a global
scale"
6 December 2007
Interview with a French Airbus worker
"All the parties, even the far left parties, are moving
to the right"
3 December 2007
French
student mobilisation at an impasse
1 December 2007
Police
maintain their occupation of Paris working class suburb
30 November 2007
France:
drumhead tribunals and threats of police state repression
29 November 2007
Massive police deployment in Villiers-le-Bel
France: Three nights of rioting in
response to youths' deaths
The betrayal of the French rail workers strike and
the role of the LCR
27 November 2007
France:
Riots break out in Paris suburbs after police crash kills youth
24 November 2007
French
railway strike betrayed
22 November 2007
France:
5,000 demonstrate in Strasbourg against Sarkozy
Rail
workers, public service employees and students demonstrate in
Amiens, France
21 November 2007
France:
1.5 million strike against Sarkozy's policies
University
authorities use police repression against striking French students
20 November 2007
France:
Vast mobilisation expected November 20 against Sarkozy's policies
19 November 2007
Teachers, public employees to join rail workers on
strike
French workers need a new political strategy
17 November 2007
France:
Rank-and-file workers force continuation of rail strike
16 November 2007
French
union leaders seek to strangle rail strike
France: Railway workers resist unions' plan for sell-out
15 November 2007
France:
Despite success of strike, trade unions prepare a sellout
14 November 2007
France:
Sarkozy seeks confrontation with the working class
13 November 2007
For
a socialist and internationalist perspective to fight French
President Sarkozy's social cuts
12 November 2007
French
students mobilise against university reform
French student protesters: "Everything is directed
at the government's policy of social destruction"
French President Sarkozy goes to Washington: A vassal
pays homage
8 November 2007
France:
Teachers resist Sarkozy's manipulation of Guy Moquêt history
5 November 2007
France: Immigration history museum opens without official
inauguration
A sign of mounting opposition to Sarkozy's policies
24 October 2007
French
unions vote to end transport strikes
22 October 2007
France:
corruption scandal hits employers' federation, unions
20 October 2007
French
rail strike continues, despite union leaders' efforts to end
it
French workers speak out against social welfare cuts
19 October 2007
Transport
strike brings France to a standstill
18 October 2007
French
workers oppose "tax" on medical treatment
12 October 2007
France:
The struggle against Sarkozy requires a new political perspective
4 October 2007
French
immigration "reform": an attack on basic human rights
3 October 2007
Sarkozy
announces vast attacks on French workers' rights and conditions
28 September 2007
France:
political fall-out from Kouchner's calls for aggression against
Iran
20 September 2007
France:
Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless
19 September 2007
France:
Sarkozy, unions collaborate in attack on pensions
13 September 2007
Amid
mounting defections, French Socialist Party veers to the right
GDF-Suez merger and the global scramble for energy
8 September 2007
France:
Unions passive on public sector job cuts
3 September 2007
France:
Sarkozy calls for European military build up
28 August 2007
French
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Baghdad
18 August 2007
Brutal
French government policy on undocumented immigrants leads to
tragedy
14 August 2007
French
higher education law opens way for privatisation
11 August 2007
France:
Sarkozy government introduces law restricting right to strike
30 July 2007
Sarkozy
angers European Union over Libya's release of Bulgarian medics
23 July 2007
Jack
Lang and the continuing disintegration of the French Socialist
Party
20 July 2007
Sarkozy
government plans to extend strikebreaking law to entire public
sector
16 July 2007
Further
suicides in French workplaces
14 July 2007
New
French law treats juvenile offenders as adults
13 July 2007
France:
Sarkozy names Socialist Party's Strauss-Kahn to head IMF
7 July 2007
France:
Sarkozy prepares strikebreaking law for public transport
5 July 2007
France:
Socialist Party feminist joins Sarkozy's cabinet
30 June 2007
Divisions
erupt in the French Socialist Party
19 June 2007
Setback
for Sarkozy in second round of French legislative elections
12 June 2007
French
"left" defeated in parliamentary elections
11 June 2007
France's
asylum procedures condemned by the European Court of Human Rights
8 June 2007
French
parliamentary elections: The collapse of the "left"
2 June 2007
France:
Guy Môquet, Sarkozy and the Stalinist school of falsification
28 May 2007
France:
Sarkozy prepares shock therapy
25 May 2007
France:
Sarkozy selects Socialist Party's Bernard Kouchner as foreign
minister
23 May 2007
France:
Sarkozy concentrates power in his own hands
19 May 2007
Demonstrations
greet new French president
15 May 2007
France:
Sarkozy woos Socialist Party and trade unions
11 May 2007
Harsh
sentences handed out to anti-Sarkozy protesters in France
9 May 2007
Sarkozy's
electoral victory and the bankruptcy of the French "left"
8 May 2007
The
French "far left" learns nothing from the presidential
election
7 May 2007
Nicolas
Sarkozy wins French presidential election
4 May 2007
Class
issues in the French presidential election
French presidential debate: Royal and Sarkozy spar
over right-wing agendas
28 April 2007
French
presidential elections: Royal moves into the camp of Bayrou
26 April 2007
After
first round of French election: the contest for the "centre"
23 April 2007
French presidential election
Sarkozy and Royal to compete in second round
21 April 2007
French
presidential election Bayrou poses as alternative to Sarkozy
20 April 2007
Presidential election in France
The dismal world of Lutte Ouvrière and Arlette Laguiller
19 April 2007
French presidential election
Extreme right candidate Le Pen profits from the bankruptcy of
the "left"
18 April 2007
Further
lurch to the right in French election campaign
13 April 2007
French police arrest dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils
Raids target LTTE
12 April 2007
French
presidential elections: Four in ten voters undecided
6 April 2007
France:
Police attack defenders of immigrant school children
2 April 2007
Wide
popular interest, deep political tensions dominate French presidential
election
31 March 2007
Presidential
elections in France: The nationalism of the Workers Party
30 March 2007
As French presidential elections approach
Massive police mobilisation in central Paris
29 March 2007
Memorial
meeting planned in Paris for Comrade Raveenthiranathan Senthil
Ravee
21 March 2007
A
demonstration against the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR)
17 March 2007
French
elections--Olivier Besancenot: "I was never a Trotskyist"
"But the Emperor has no clothes!"
French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies in Paris
16 March 2007
A visit to the Airbus factory in Méaulte, France
Workers reject nationalism of the trade unions
15 March 2007
Presidential
election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French
nation
8 March 2007
An
Answer to the attacks launched by Airbus
France:
Thousands of Airbus workers strike and demonstrate in defence
of jobs
3 March 2007
Prominent
French intellectuals rally to presidential candidate Nicolas
Sarkozy
1 March 2007
A
third Renault worker commits suicide in France
28 February 2007
France:
Socialist Party attempts "left" re-packaging of Ségolène
Royal
23 February 2007
Gaullist presidential candidate Sarkozy allies with
Italy's post-fascists
"Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are"
19 February 2007
France:
Royal's campaign falters as Sarkozy consolidates support of big
business
5 February 2007
France:
Nicolas Sarkozy goes to London
20 January 2007
The coronation of Nicolas Sarkozy
French interior minister named Gaullist presidential candidate
13 January 2007
Paris
court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless
9 January 2007
The
pathetic end of the French "anti-capitalist left"
18 November 2006
France:
Socialist Party chooses a Blairite presidential candidate
11 November 2006
France:
airport workers fired in anti-Muslim campaign
7 November 2006
French
government uses Marseille bus burning to step up state repression
28 October 2006
Public meeting to be held in Paris
The lessons of the struggle against the First Job Contract
18 October 2006
French
National Assembly makes denial of the Armenian genocide a punishable
offence
Anti-Islam campaign in France: the background to the
Redeker affair
10 October 2006
France:
Immigrant squatters pressured into accepting dispersal
30 September 2006
France:
Immigrant hunger strikers in a critical condition
26 September 2006
France's
Delinquency Bill: A step towards totalitarianism
21 September 2006
French
State Rail Company found guilty of Nazi collaboration
6 September 2006
France:
Socialist mayor threatens to evict homeless immigrants by force
31 July 2006
France:
Thousands demonstrate against war in Lebanon and Gaza
26 June 2006
French
Socialist Party publishes right-wing election programme
15 June 2006
The
social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10
years--Part two
14 June 2006
The
social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10
years--Part one
10 June 2006
France:
Likely Socialist Party presidential candidate wants unruly youth
drafted into the military
6 June 2006
France:
Amiens meeting discusses lessons of struggle against "New
Job Contract"
1 June 2006
Unemployed
youth clash with police in Paris suburbs
17 May 2006
The
Clearstream affair: French right wing in crisis
16 May 2006
France:
Thousands march in Paris against immigration bill
3 May 2006
How
the French government treats older workers from the colonies
2 May 2006
France:
CGT union federation moves further to the right
29 April 2006
France:
Government launches assault on immigrants
15 April 2006
Background to the recent events in France The "Lisbon Strategy" and the European
trade unions
14 April 2006
France:
victim of smear campaign, worker injured in anti-CPE protest
emerges from coma
12 April 2006
France:
Protests continue despite government retreat on "First Job
Contract"
France: How Lutte Ouvrière aids unions' betrayal
of struggle vs. Gaullist regime
11 April 2006
French
government withdraws "First Job Contract," enlists
unions in assault on job security
7 April 2006
France:
Protests lodged with Gaullist government over police provocations
6 April 2006
French
unions hold talks with government in move to end "First
Job Contract" strikes
5 April 2006
France:
As millions protest government attacks, unions signal retreat
on "First Job Contract"
]4 April 2006
A
socialist strategy for workers' power: the only answer to France's
"First Job Contract"
France: University and high school students demand
general strike
3 April 2006
France:
Crisis deepens over government's "First Job Contract"
legislation
1 April 2006
France:
President Chirac enacts "First Job Contract" legislation
France: LCR's Besancenot provides left cover for labour
bureaucrats' treachery
US media reacts to French protests with hatred and
fear
31 March 2006
France:
"First Job Contract" legislation approved by Constitutional
Council
30 March 2006
France:
Unions appeal to President Chirac to resolve "First Job
Contract" crisis
29 March 2006
France:
Millions of workers and students strike against Gaullist government
28 March 2006
France:
Fight vs. "First Job Contract" raises need for new
working class leadership
27 March 2006
France:
Students and workers prepare mobilisation against government's
"First Job Contract"
25 March 2006
France:
May-June 1968 and today
France: Mass movement against "First Job Contract"
in danger
Trade unions meet with prime minister
24 March 2006
Mass
student protests in France: trade unions come to Villepin's rescue
The French Popular Front of 1936: Historical lessons
in the "First Job Contract" struggle
23 March 2006
France:
University and high school students continue anti-government
protests
22 March 2006
France:
Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma
21 March 2006
France:
Dispute escalates over "First Job Contract"
20 March 2006
France:
one million protest government offensive against young workers'
conditions
French demonstrators: "What we say is ignored,
they don't give a damn about us"
18 March 2006
France:
Political issues in the fight against the government's "First
Job Contract"
France: Hundreds of youth arrested following anti-government
protests
17 March 2006
France:
National student protest held against government attack on young
workers
15 March 2006
Chikungunya
epidemic on the French Island of Réunion: a "natural"
catastrophe
14 March 2006
France:
riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne
11 March 2006
France:
A million protest against government attack on job security for
young workers
6 March 2006
France:
Ilan Halimi tortured and murdered for money
22 February 2006
French
government forced to recall ship laden with toxic waste
10 February 2006
France:
Hundreds of thousands protest against the CPE
6 February 2006
Fight
vs. CPE requires independent political struggle by French workers
4 February 2006
French
Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire turns further to the
right
1 February 2006
France
exports toxic waste in defiance of international law
31 January 2006
France:
Students mobilise against destruction of working conditions for
youth
21 January 2006
French
president Chirac threatens nuclear retaliation in the event of
terrorist attacks
16 January 2006
Collaboration
with CIA renditions highlights France's assault on democratic
rights
19 December 2005
France:
New law requires teachers to present a "positive" account
of French colonialism
9 December 2005
Left
press in France all but ignores Sarkozy's Anti-Terrorist Bill
5 December 2005
France:
Anti-terrorism legislation tramples on civil liberties
28 November 2005
French
Socialist Party congress backs government repression
24 November 2005
French
unions seeking end to national rail strike
22 November 2005
France:
Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency
17 November 2005
France:
state of emergency extended for three months
14 November 2005
Ban
on gatherings in Paris
12 November 2005
France's
state of emergency--Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
10 November 2005
France:
state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and
workers
9 November 2005
Oppose
the state of emergency in France!
7 November 2005
After 11 days of clashes between youth and police
French government and opposition back intensified repression
As protests against police violence spreads
High court declares Marseilles transport
workers strike illegal
5 November 2005
Eyewitness
to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation
4 November 2005
France:
widening anti-police riots provoke government crisis
2 November 2005
Paris
hit by anti-police riots
26 October 2005
French
workers demand justice over asbestos poisoning
17 October 2005
France:
CGT betrays ferry workers' fight
6 October 2005
One-day
national strike in France: over a million march against Gaullist
policies
4 October 2005
Answer
the French government/corporate offensive against workers with
socialist internationalism
27 September 2005
German
election result causes consternation in the French political
establishment
7 September 2005
Paris:
As authorities launch murder enquiry into Vincent-Auriol fire,
thousands march in anger and solidarity
1 September 2005
Paris:
48 African immigrants die in apartment block fires
18 August 2005
French
government seizes on London bombings to escalate attack on civil
liberties
18 July 2005
France:
Villepin government attacks the working class
2 June 2005
After
the defeat of the referendum in France Chirac appoints a new
government
1 June 2005
European Constitution rejected
The political consequences of the French "no" vote
30 May 2005
French
electorate rejects European constitution
28 May 2005
Amiens rally for "no" vote on EU constitution
The French left and the politics of evasion
27 May 2005
At Paris meeting on eve of vote
French Socialist Party leaders slander "no" voters
in referendum on EU constitution
26 May 2005
French
referendum on European constitution: the official debate
25 May 2005
Vote "no" in French referendum on European
constitution
For the United Socialist States of Europe
21 May 2005
The
French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party
26 April 2005
"Secularism"
and hypocrisy: official France mourns pope and bans Muslim scarf
19 April 2005
France:
Chirac TV appeal for "yes" vote fails to shift growing
sentiment against European constitution
16 April 2005
French
government orders police crackdown against high school protesters
11 April 2005
French
high school students continue their struggle
8 April 2005
The
French left and the referendum on the European constitution
4 April 2005
French
referendum on the European constitution: opinion polls point
to defeat
19 March 2005
After the March 10 demonstrations
France: Chirac government Socialist Party close ranks on European
constitutional referendum
18 March 2005
French
referendum on European constitution set for May 29
11 March 2005
General
strike in France as workers continue protests against Raffarin
government
17 February 2005
France:
high school students demonstrate against education "reforms"
9 February 2005
France:
half-million-strong protest against government attacks
5 February 2005
French workers need a new political perspective
Political issues in the fight against the attacks of Chirac
and Raffarin
25 January 2005
France:
strikes reveal lack of programme to fight austerity measures
22 January 2005
Mass
strikes by French public sector workers
3 December 2004
French
right elects new leader
20 November 2004
Chirac
seeks to appease Washington while ensuring France gets its cut
17 November 2004
Protracted
crisis following government ouster in French Polynesia
21 October 2004
France:
murder of work inspectors reveals deepening social tensions
17 September 2004
Reaction
to the French hostage crisis
9 September 2004
French
government encourages employers' jobs blackmail
1 September 2004
Arson
attack on Jewish social centre in Paris
8 July 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Introduction: Trotskyism and Centrism
21 June 2004
French
riot police dispatched to Tahiti following election upset
18 June 2004
ICFI
public meeting in Paris
10 June 2004
Lutte Ouvrière festival in Paris
Silence on the Iraq war and defence of the headscarf ban
8 June 2004
France:
Demonstrations against Bush and in defence of the health service
4 June 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part seven: Lutte Ouvrière and the Fourth International
26 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part six: the demoralised politics of Lutte Ouvrière
25 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part five: the Pabloites and the Lula government
22 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part four: the roots of Pabloism--a historical review
19 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part three: The Fifteenth World Congress of the Pabloite International
17 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part two: The LCR assembles the "anti-capitalist left"
15 May 2004
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left"
in France
Part one: the LO-LCR electoral alliance
14 May 2004
France:
Amiens meeting discusses SEP campaigns in Europe and US
4 May 2004
France:
ruling parties in crisis as Chirac and Sarkozy spar
3 May 2004
France:
May Day demonstrators protest attacks on social programs
15 April 2004
The historical record of Pabloite opportunism
An exchange with a supporter of the French LCR
8 April 2004
An
exchange of letters on the French headscarf ban
31 March 2004
France:
Government parties routed in regional elections
25 March 2004
Regional elections in France
A defeat for the camp of the conservative government
23 March 2004
The
Islamic headscarf ban: a French teacher's view
16 March 2004
France:
Teachers strike against government cutbacks
11 March 2004
France:
researchers protest Raffarin government with mass resignations
21 February 2004
French
government attacks labour laws, working conditions
18 February 2004
France:
National Assembly bans Muslim headscarves in schools
13 February 2004
France:
Despite conviction, former prime minister Juppé to keep
posts
3 February 2004
France:
Alain Juppé indicted on corruption charges President Chirac
directly exposed
28 January 2004
Paris
and Berlin consider military intervention in Iraq
7 January 2004
30 years of testing in Polynesian colony
Victims of French A-bomb tests demand compensation
17 December 2003
French
students protest university reforms
17 November 2003
European
Social Forum: French LCR seeks to channel popular opposition
to official left parties
7 October 2003
Air
France/KLM merger heralds further rationalisations and job cuts
18 September 2003
French
government tries to quell scandal over heat wave deaths
17 September 2003
France:
Day of action greets new school year
9 September 2003
France:
Heat wave catastrophe exposes health care crisis
3 September 2003
Larzac
anti-globalisation conference throws French left into crisis
2 September 2003
France:
José Bové's perspective is a blind alley
22 August 2003
France:
More than 10,000 dead in record heat wave
13 August 2003
France:
The anti-Muslim campaign and the phony debate on secularism
4 August 2003
France:
Artists and entertainers strike continues
15 July 2003
After the mass protests and strikes
What way forward for working people in France?
11 July 2003
Total
oil in France's biggest postwar financial scandal
28 June 2003
France:
Court dismisses charges in tainted blood scandal
21 June 2003
Another
day of action in France
14 June 2003
French
protesters speak out on pension cuts
13 June 2003
France:
Millions join one-day strike against pension cuts
4 June 2003
France:
Strikes, mass demonstrations to oppose attacks on pensions
2 June 2003
Violent crackdown on protests marks G8 summit
Hundreds arrested at French-Swiss border
28 May 2003
Socialisation of losses, privatisation of profits
Metaleurop: The ugly face of European capitalism
26 May 2003
A
million workers march against pension cuts in France
24 May 2003
A
political strategy to fight the attack on workers' pensions in
France
14 May 2003
Millions
strike, demonstrate in France to defend pension rights
13 May 2003
France:
For an international movement to defend pension rights
1 May 2003
French
concessions on Iraq met by US threats
21 April 2003
US
seizure of Baghdad provokes political crisis in France
10 April 2003
A
policy to defend French workers' pensions and social gains
1 April 2003
30,000
antiwar protesters take to Paris streets
27 March 2003
France:
Iraq war speeds up government's austerity measures
25 March 2003
Antiwar
protests in France
19 March 2003
Protests
in France against the war
15 March 2003
Paris,
Berlin and the war against Iraq
An interview with Jacques Nikonoff, president of Attac
Chirac promotes French interests in Algeria
8 March 2003
Interview
with Force Ouvrière's Marc Blondel: portrait of a French
trade union bureaucrat
7 March 2003
Pensions
under threat in France
3 March 2003
Franco-African
summit: the scramble for Africa intensifies
27 February 2003
An
interview with French Socialist Party spokesman Karim Pakzad
24 February 2003
France: Former prime minister Jospin resurfaces in
the pages of Le Monde
21 February 2003
French
government party leaders solidarize themselves with American
imperialism
19 February 2003
Discussions
with Paris antiwar demonstrators
17 February 2003
200,000
march in Paris against Iraq war
15 February 2003
French
Communist Party Chairman Hue loses his parliamentary seat
13 February 2003
French
public sector workers demonstrate against pension cuts
11 February 2003
France:
strikes, protests mount against plant closings and pension cuts
8 February 2003
Franco-British
summit: Chirac signals Paris ready to back war vs. Iraq
22 January 2003
French
airline steward detained for nine months in US
10 January 2003
France:
Government greets New Year with austerity measures
7 January 2003
French
government moves toward participation in Iraq war
16 December 2002
French
teachers, parents march against government cuts
11 December 2002
French
right reorganises in new party
27 November 2002
France:
strikes, protests mount vs. austerity measures
France: Closure of Sangatte camp intensifies attack
on asylum-seekers
18 November 2002
New
powers proposed for French police
24 October 2002
French
diplomacy and Bush's campaign against Iraq
10 October 2002
France's
release of Maurice Papon: an incitement to political reaction
9 October 2002
France:
national strike and mass protest against privatisation
2 October 2002
The
budget and penal reform in France: an acceleration of reaction
14 August 2002
France:
Raffarin government begins budget-cutting measures
31 July 2002
Raffarin's
law-and-order programme: a contribution from a reader in France
23 July 2002
France:
proposed security laws raise danger of police state
20 July 2002
Sophistry
in defense of opportunism: an exchange with a member of the French
LCR
17 July 2002
French
neo-Nazi attempts to assassinate Chirac
12 July 2002
French
teachers speak on the crisis in education
11 July 2002
New
French prime minister outlines anti-working class program
8 July 2002
The
French Communist Party discusses its latest electoral debacle
4 July 2002
France:
The war over the minimum wage never took place
27 June 2002
Members
of the French Young Communists Movement speak to the WSWS
26 June 2002
The
French elections and the failure of the left
25 June 2002
Interview
with French Communist Party deputy Maxime Gremetz
22 June 2002
French
Whirlpool workers facing layoffs speak to WSWS
Comment on the French parliamentary elections
18 June 2002
Record abstention in second round of election
French right-wing parties consolidate large parliamentary majority
17 June 2002
An
encounter with Lutte Ouvrière: the political physiognomy
of centrism in France
15 June 2002
An
interview with Robert Hue, general secretary of the French Communist
Party
Robert Hue and the putrescence of French Stalinism
A comment on Hue's interview with the WSWS
Residents of French CP leader's constituency speak
to the WSWS
12 June 2002
France:
Socialist Party feigns shock over collusion between Chirac camp
and Le Pen
11 June 2002
Right wing wins solid majority in French legislative
election
Record abstention reflects popular disaffection
10 June 2002
The
French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire defends its opportunism
An interview with Olivier Besancenot, candidate of
the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
National Front stages violent provocation in Paris
8 June 2002
French
factory workers discuss upcoming parliamentary election
7 June 2002
Rising
poverty and exploitation: France on the eve of the parliamentary
elections
6 June 2002
The
French elections: Socialist Party meeting highlights political
vacuum on the left
4 June 2002
French
parliamentary elections: political right benefits from prostration
of the left
17 May 2002
French
President Chirac appoints new government with right-wing agenda
14 May 2002
Interview
with a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
of France, and comment by David Walsh
10 May 2002
An
interview with Lutte Ouvrière leader Arlette Laguiller,
and comment by Peter Schwarz
7 May 2002
France:
Chirac appoints "free market" conservative as interim
prime minister
6 May 2002
Chirac wins French presidency with 82 percent of the
vote
Gaullist president backed by Socialist Party, CP, Greens
Opportunism in practice: the response of French left
groups to the presidential election
4 May 2002
The
left and the French presidential election: An exchange of letters
on the politics of Lutte Ouvrière
3 May 2002
French
Socialist Party attempts to pick up the pieces
Letters on the crisis in France
2 May 2002
May Day in France: 1.5 million march against neo-fascist
Le Pen
Socialist Party, unions campaign for Chirac
30 April 2002
Mass demonstrations against Le Pen throughout France
Social democrats channel anti-fascist sentiment behind Chirac
29 April 2002
No to Chirac and Le Pen! For a working class boycott
of the French election
An open letter to Lutte Ouvrière, Ligue Communiste
Révolutionnaire, and Parti des Travailleurs
27 April 2002
The
French presidential election: What the figures reveal
26 April 2002
For
a boycott of the French election—Statement of the International
Committee of the Fourth International
[in
PDF format]
France: Anti-Semitic attacks complement anti-Arab
racism
23 April 2002
Neo-fascist Le Pen to face Gaullist Chirac in runoff
for president
Vote for National Front leader heightens political crisis in
France
17 April 2002
Disaffection
with major parties dominates French presidential elections
3 April 2002
Shootings
in France reveal explosive social tensions
15 February 2002
France:
the politics of presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Chevènement
21 December 2001
France:
Former intelligence officer Bunel jailed
11 December 2001
French
officer accused of collaborating with Milosevic government
30 November 2001
France:
5,000 Moulinex jobs slashed as workers end protest
23 November 2001
France:
Support for war, attack on democratic rights
13 November 2001
Leader
of the French OCI acknowledges past relations with Prime Minister
Jospin
1 November 2001
Stalinism
and Trotskyism in Occupied France
18 October 2001
War
in Afghanistan gives rise to tensions in France
25 September 2001
Chemical
explosion in Toulouse, France leaves at least 29 dead
21 September 2001
The "Teissier affair"
Astrology rehabilitated at the Sorbonne university in Paris
15 September 2001
Britain
and France seek tougher measures against refugees
11 September 2001
Globalisation, Jospin and the political program of
Attac
Part Two
10 September 2001
Globalisation, Jospin and the political program of
Attac
Part One
5 September 2001
France:
Growing desperation amongst Sangatte refugees
31 August 2001
Sangatte
camp exposes brutal French and British asylum policy
27 June 2001
Lionel
Jospin and Trotskyism: the debate over the French prime minister's
past
19 June 2001
France
implicated in attempted coup in Central African Republic
13 June 2001
Lionel
Jospin's "Euro speech": European integration process
falters
30 May 2001
France:
Wave of mass redundancies throws Jospin government into crisis
9 April 2001
Torture in the Algerian war (1954-62)
The role of the French army-then and now
23 March 2001
France:
Government parties experience substantial losses in local elections
17 March 2001
France:
First round in local elections reveals political turmoil
15 March 2001
Trade
barriers go up as foot and mouth disease spreads to France
21 February 2001
France
seeks to block asylum for over 900 Kurdish "boat people"
13 February 2001
Strikes
and demonstrations in France against raising the retirement age
13 December 2000
Sharp
conflicts at the French Socialist Party congress
The reform of France's unemployment benefits scheme
17 November 2000
France
announces measures to prevent spread of BSE/Mad Cow Disease
9 November 2000
France
gripped by fear of deaths from Mad Cow Disease
25 October 2000
In wake of Israeli violence against Palestinians
Anti-Jewish attacks mount in Britain and France
19 October 2000
France: Finance scandal rocks the Fifth Republic:
The Méry affair has French politics in a turmoil
5 September 2000
Partial
autonomy for Corsica splits French government
25 August 2000
Corruption
at Paris city hall
26 July 2000
Concorde
crash outside Paris kills at least 113
20 July 2000
French
right-wing party splinters
French workers occupy chemical plant
19 July 2000
French
anti-globalisation protest calls for trade war measures against
US
11 July 2000
Chirac's
European vision unleashes controversy in France
20 June 2000
Split
in Front National deepens crisis of extreme right in France
7 June 2000
Battle
for Paris mayor's office highlights crisis within France's right-wing
parties
22 February 2000
France's
education workers strike against Socialist Party government policies
18 February 2000
The
35-hour workweek in France: how a progressive idea was distorted
beyond recognition
9 November 1999
The
fraud of the 35-hour workweek in France
5 November 1999
France's
Minister of Finance Strauss-Kahn resigns
23 October 1999
Switzerland
sends Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon back to France
30 September 1999
French
high school students protest poor conditions and teacher shortages
21 August 1999
French
police arrest 210 asylum-seekers
24 May 1999
Strange goings-on in Corsica
Police and senior government officials implicated in arson attack
12 March 1999
French HIV-tainted blood trial
Court acquits former prime minister
3 March 1999
France's HIV-infected blood trial set to conclude
this week
Former prime minister unlikely to be found guilty
23 December 1998
French fascists fall out
Le Pen's Front National splits
20 November 1998
French court frees ex-MI5 whistle-blower
British extradition request refused
23 October 1998
Mass
demonstrations by French high school students
15 October 1998
Strike
by secondary school students in France
The
issues in the Paris transport strikes
16 September 1998
Financial
scandal threatens to engulf French presidency
16 July 1998
Social
polarisation grows in France under Jospin government
28 April 1998
Ten months of the Jospin government in France
Why are the fascists gaining influence?
23 April 1998
French
political landscape in turmoil
2 April 1998
Mass
demonstrations in France against the fascist FN
17 March 1998
Regional
elections show growing alienation from official parties
30 January 1998
Popularity
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