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France: A united response to the pro-austerity and racist government?

Fabienne Dolet — 2025-02-21T09:37:26Z

After three motions of no confidence on 6 and 10 February, the French national assembly approved the state budget and the social security budget, which were hardly different from those presented by the then prime minister Barnier in the autumn of 2024. The current government, led by François Bayrou, which wants to reduce the public deficit to 5.4% of GDP by 2025, has cut the budgets of several ministries: public development aid, ecology, culture, agriculture, research and higher education. A few gestures on natural disaster prevention, the Green Fund and the budget for the French Overseas Territories. Local authorities continue to lose 2.2 billion euros.

- IVP601- February 2025 / France

Syria: "The West is sacrificing dozens of peoples and faiths"

Fabienne Dolet, Berivan Firat — 2025-01-14T18:39:57Z

The new government in Syria has received European ministers and seems to have won the goodwill of Western states. The situation of the Kurds who are fighting for their rights remains complicated. Berivan Firat of the CDKF (Kurdish Democratic Council in France) gives his point of view. This interview was conducted b by Fabienne Dolet, on January 4, 2025

- IVP600 - January 2025 / France, Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan

A government that won't last

Fabienne Dolet — 2024-12-28T13:56:23Z

Will France have a government at Christmas? That was the question in September. We didn't think we'd reach the same point on Christmas Eve. With more weariness, however.

- IV599 - December 2024

Reducing this conflict to a rivalry between Algeria and Morocco aims to wipe the Sahrawi people off the map

Fabienne Dolet, Fatimetu Mohtar Ali — 2024-08-04T15:17:10Z

Western Sahara is still a ‘Non-Self-Governing Territory' according to the United Nations (UN), and has been since the end of Spanish colonisation in 1976. The territory is claimed by Morocco and is at the heart of the rivalry between Morocco and Algeria, which supports the Polisario Front's claim to full independence for Western Sahara, a goal it has pursued for nearly fifty years. Despite the 1991 ceasefire, Western Sahara is still under the domination of Morocco, which represses Saharawi militants. Fabienne Dolet spoke to Fatimetu Mohtar Ali, from the Association de la Jeunesse sahraouie de France. (Saharawi Youth Association of France

- IV595 - August 2024

No Olympic truce for capitalism

Fabienne Dolet — 2024-07-26T10:27:28Z

On 26 July, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were launched. In the presence of the President of Israel, the same man who a few months ago was writing on the shells to be fired into Gaza by the Israeli army. As head of state, he came to greet the athletes of the Israeli National Olympic Committee. As the head of a state that flouts international law!

- IV594 - July 2024 / Palestine, France, Russia, Ukraine, Israel

Faced with the new “republican arc”, we need more than ever to unite our class

Fabienne Dolet — 2023-11-28T21:40:00Z

It is by no means trivial that Mediapart has named one of its sections “The Middle East: repercussions in France”, with a recent article on “The leaden weight that descended on universities” after 7 October, and another on the divisions between editorial boards!

- IV586 - November 2023 / France