George Ciccariello-Maher

Hugo Blanco is currently in hospital in Sweden receiving urgent medical care. He is not entitled to free medical care and the bill is growing daily. He is being cared for by his children but we need help from the international community to cover these costs.

“May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war.”

The strongly-contested pension reform forced through by the Macron government was approved by the constitutional council on Friday 14 April and promulgated into law during the night.

Macron then made an address to the population on national television on Monday 17 April. The NPA issued this statement.

Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.

“To win, we must continue to organize, to put maximum pressure by blocking the economy.”