NPA (France)
France: Popular front pushes back far right (plus statement from New Anticapitalist Party)
Dave Kellaway looks at the results of the second round of the French parliamentary elections.
France: Combating the major risk of the far right (plus statements by Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste)
Léon Crémieux — The far right is on the brink of an absolute majority following the first round of early parliamentary elections in France.
France: Between fascism and the New Popular Front
Nessim Achouche — French president Emmanuel Macron’s unexpected gamble has unleashed a new, dynamic mobilization on the left.
EU elections in France: A test run for 2027?
William Bouchardon — How French voters turn out in the European elections next month could have major domestic implications.
Kanaky: Let’s (really) put an end to the era of colonies (plus statements from French radical left)
Jeff Castel — It is urgent to oppose the manoeuvres of the French state against the Kanak people and promote solidarity.
France: Anti-police uprising of marginalized youth hurls challenge to the entire social order
Kevin B. Anderson — After a racist police murder, an uprising of France’s marginalized youth has targeted the state apparatus in an unprecedented ways, exposing the race/class faultlines of modern capitalism.
Pro-independence victories in French Polynesia
Léon Crémieux — On 30 April, the Polynesian pro-independence Tavini party won a solid majority in the Territorial Assembly for the first time. This confirms a real change in the political landscape in the archipelago
France: Massive rejection of the Macron-Borne reform of the pension system
Léon Crémieux - The question of pensions will become a major social and political issue in France.
Split in the New Anticapitalist Party (France): 'A change of epoch for the revolutionary left'
In December 2022, the New Anticapitalist Party’s (NPA) congress ended in a split between two roughly equivalent forces. While the future of the NPA tendency animated by former militants of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) is uncertain, François Sabado looks back on this crisis and takes stock of this attempt to unite the anti-capitalists.
Below, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal is publishing statements from various French left groups on the outcome of the May 7 French presidential election which saw centre-right banker Emmanuel Macron defeat the far-right candidate for the National Front, Marine Le Pen. These include statements by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from France Unbowed; Ensemble! (Together!); the French Communist Party (PCF); and Philippe Poutou, from the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).
Far-right militia parade openly in Kyiv.