Macron Wins, but Without Enthusiasm

Stéphane Delcros and Nicolas Croes are members of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). For a ‘Third Round’ of Struggle! The second round of the French presidential elections ended with 58.5% for Macron and 41.5% for Le Pen. The enthusiasm for Macron was very limited. The number of people who […]

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Organize to Stop Le Pen! Macron is No Solution

Nicolas Croes is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). In a context of crisis of capitalism, amplified by the disastrous management of the pandemic and the imperialist war in Ukraine, the 2nd round of the French presidential election will see Emmanuel Macron up against Marine Le Pen. […]

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France’s president backs down in face of mass demonstrations

Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, French President Emmanuel Macron suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. Yet, so far this concession has not defused the mass movement calling for his government to resign. On Monday, 3 December, when the French […]

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France: Macron on road to confrontation with workers and youth

Leïla Messaoudi is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France). A second labour law to facilitate redundancies and short term contracts, an end to railway workers’ protected status and the national public railway enterprise, selection for university entrance, huge cuts in several public services, social benefits cuts, a new tax on pensioners. It’s a […]

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