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Taking stock of the seriousness of the situation

Patrick Le Moal — 2024-11-29T21:04:59Z

Faced with the neo-fascist danger represented by the FN/RN (National Front/Nationally Rally), the result of the second round of the early legislative elections has provided a respite. An essential respite since it avoids handing over the levers of the state to them, but it does not eliminate the fundamental processes that were expressed in the European and legislative elections.

- IV598 - November 2024 / France

Missak Manouchian: their commemoration and ours

Patrick Le Moal — 2024-03-04T11:07:57Z

“For us, honouring them means understanding the depth of the convictions that guided their actions in France and their participation in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.”

- Features / France, Historical events and figures

Chlordecone: the fight against colonial crime takes on a new dimension

Patrick Le Moal — 2023-10-19T07:10:00Z

“The poisoning of the people of the Antilles is no longer in dispute: in 2021, the French government has finally recognized the prostate cancers of people who have worked for at least ten years in contact with chlordecone as an occupational disease, allowing them to be compensated.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / France, Antilles

La France insoumise, a political current with feet of clay that dominates the left

Patrick Le Moal — 2023-06-09T09:19:00Z

“It is a shift of the centre of gravity of the left towards radical political, social and ecological positions, without being anti-capitalist.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / France

Gilets Jaunes: a popular movement of a new kind

Christine Poupin, Patrick Le Moal — 2019-02-17T14:58:11Z

The steamroller of the Macron “start-up” seemed to be advancing relentlessly. The Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) movement has thrown his government into crisis, the popular anger has been such that it has been forced to draw back, at least symbolically. It is the first time since 2006, when the massive mobilisation of youth supported by several days of strike action called by the trade unions forced the withdrawal of the Contrat Première Embauche, that a French government has faced a crisis which it can only resolve by abandoning its project.

- IV529 - February 2019 / France

Mobilizations against the labour law: New forms and political problems of a long-lasting mobilization

Patrick Le Moal — 2016-11-17T13:38:48Z

“Our uprising has nothing to do with the collar-and-tie pantomime artistes who govern us. It was the visible expression of an invisible force. It was the public manifestation of a drive for life. It came from gut feeling and from the heart. You do not subject gut feeling to balance sheets. You do not lock up the heart in accounting columns.”

- IV502 - November 2016 / France

Local elections reveal crisis of popular representation

Patrick Le Moal — 2015-04-17T16:16:28Z

The institutions of the French Fifth Republic set up in 1958, with a presidential regime and bipartisanship to the fore, still have the appearance of stability, allowing the bourgeoisie to lead the country in all serenity. But this is only an appearance. If a party representing less than 25% of the electorate, that is to say between 10 and 15% of the population, can govern alone, it is increasingly clear that at every social and political milestone the ingredients of a political and/or major institutional crisis are accumulating.

- IV483 - April 2015 / France