France
Students shut down French high schools in the face of class and racial oppression
Beginning in the banlieues, France’s student revolt has become national in scope, taking on economic and racial oppression as well as police brutality, writes Kevin B Anderson.
Student uprising in France: An interview with Basile Copin from La France Insoumise Youth
Basile Copin discusses France’s student uprising, which beyond demands relating to education, has started to take a stand against neoliberal and far-right policies.
Will French students protesting austerity ignite a wider social movement ahead of the 2027 presidential campaign? William Bouchardon takes a look.
When workers resisted deindustrialisation
Romain Castellesi discusses the nature of struggles against deindustrialisation in France and the importance of working class history and memory in the face of economic crisis.
Ten years of the France Insoumise: A Marxist view
John Mullen — France Insoumise is now ten years old, but in-depth Marxist writings on its nature and prospects have been very few. This article aims to show what is specific about it, and give a view on how revolutionaries should engage with the movement.
Class struggle in France in 2025: Searching for a breakthrough
John Mullen — The situation in France opens up important questions for left activists, such as the potential and limits of left reformism, the role of trade union leaders, and the tasks of Marxist activists.
Where will France go? Interview with La France Insoumise
Walden Bello interviews various leaders of La France Insoumise.
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré: conservative anti-democratic despot or anti-imperialist hero?
Rahmane Idrissa dissects the myths and realities surrounding Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.
Tariq Ali speaks to La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon about Gaza, the US war drive against China and the French far right.
The colonised university: Destruction of knowledge in Palestine, denial of coloniality in France
Sbeih Sbeih asks what it means to produce critical scholarship from within institutions that are complicit in the face of the colonial (and genocidal) enterprise.
Western Sahara: Colonialism, labor and imperialist complicity
Isabel Lourenço — This year marks 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara: a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and a web of international complicity.
West African juntas are undermining human rights
Salvador Ousmane paints a damning picture of the African military juntas that came to power in West Africa in recent years, but sees hope in the resilience of trade union activism, which continues to persist despite repressive conditions.