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burn the borders
by the Collective for Solidarity with the accused of Vincennes On 25th-27th January the Paris High Court will try ten people for the fire at the Vincennes immigrant detention centre. Our solidarity...
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migrant workers’ strike in france
by Antoine Boulangé 6,000 undocumented migrant workers, on strike since 12th October 2009, are bravely continuing their unprecedented struggle against the government in spite of very difficult...
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recession and solidarity in france
by Ramate Keita On 7th April workers at Continental tyres charged with damaging the police prefecture where they demonstrated last year appeared at a tribunal in Compiegne. Many activists and...
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two years supporting undocumented workers in france – an assessment
Ahead of our assembly this weekend assessing the impact of the crisis and proletarian self-activity, Yves Coleman, who will be joining us from France, presents an assessment of two years of activity in...
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french workers en masse against pension ‘reforms’
by David Broder Early September in France means la rentrée, not just back to school but also the end of the holidays and no more long evenings in the sun. But in 2010 it also means a return to pitched...
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french workers fight for their futures
On 7th and 23rd September there were mass demonstrations across France in protest at planned attacks on pensions. The government wants to increase the retirement age by two years. The cross-union days...
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the conspiracy of equals and the birth of communism
Jean Léger examines the history of Gracchus Babeuf and his ‘Conspiracy of Equals’, a communist organisation which emerged during the French Revolution. First appeared as ‘Babeuf et la naissance du...
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french resistance movement shakes sarkozy
Adam Ford writes on the unrest in France On Wednesday 20th October UK Chancellor George Osborne launched unprecedented social cuts, as part of the new Coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending...
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state repression in france’s pensions struggle
Millions in France have marched and struck against a two-year increase in the retirement age. Nicolas Dessaux looks at the repression of the movement. Since the start of the movement over pensions, the...
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rimbaud and the paris commune
Sean Bonney was not impressed by a talk on French poet Arthur Rimbaud and the 1871 revolution in Paris Last month, the Marx Memorial Library hosted a talk called “Rimbaud and the Paris Commune”, given...
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the right-wing offensive in france: sarkozy’s record so far
by Noé le Blanc Ten years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy seemed to have lost much of his political credit and clout. Indeed, in the late nineties two major political defeats interrupted his previously steady...
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wild but limited: on what is called the movement “against pension reform” in...
An evaluation, written in late November by the editorial collective of Incendo, on the movement against pension reform in France, which had taken place in the autumn of 2010. We believe this is...
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on the desperate struggles in france
A fascinating article from the communisation.net website looks at the practice of kidnapping bosses during strikes in France, and how new means and objectives of struggle fit into the crisis of...
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french and greek voters seek a way out of austerity
Adam Ford on the recent elections in Europe. Hollande has spoken of his admiration for Greek destroyer-in-chief Papandreou The financial markets went into a petulant sulk today, in response to the...
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