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NPA split “an epochal change for the revolutionary left”

François Sabado — 2023-01-06T13:48:30Z

Interview with François Sabado by Mathieu Dejean published in Mediapart on 26 December 2022.

- Features / France, New parties of the left

“The intelligence to put immediate reality into perspective with new historical horizons”

François Sabado — 2022-04-10T09:43:27Z

Tribute at the funeral on 21 March 2022 by François Sabado, who has been a leader of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste and the Fourth International.

- Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Fidel Castro (1926-2016): A page turns

François Sabado — 2016-11-30T16:59:57Z

We must imagine the world at the time: the Cold War in full swing and Stalinism freezing the international workers' movement. The Cuban revolution would unblock this situation by creating a new hope.

- IV502 - November 2016 / Cuba

France rises up in the night

François Sabado, Olivier Besancenot — 2016-04-12T07:35:09Z

A new round of mass protests is shaking France under the slogan "Nuit Debout" (Rise Up at Night). The nightly demonstrations, similar in some ways to the Indignado protests in Spain in 2011 and the Occupy movement in the U.S., follow several massive mobilizations to protest the government's plan to rewrite the country's labor laws.

- IV495 - April 2016 / France

Final warning! The situation in France after the regional elections

François Sabado, Pierre Rousset — 2015-12-29T20:59:10Z

Not a single region for the National Front - which nevertheless obtained the highest score in its history. A victory for the right - weaker than it had hoped. The Socialist Party (PS) pushed back - barely saving face. A "left of the left" marginalized or subordinate, inaudible. That sums up, in a few words, the results of the regional elections of December 2015.

- IV491 - December 2015 / France

The 13 November attacks in Paris: the terror of the Islamic State, the state of emergency in France, our responsibilities

François Sabado, Pierre Rousset — 2015-11-27T13:08:43Z

Solidarity with the victims!

November 13 represents a change in the national and international political situation. The Islamic State (IS, Daesh) has struck again; and even more strongly. In January, the targets were the journalists of Charlie Hebdo, police and Jews. This time, it was the youth of the country that was the target. They did not kill just anyone, just anywhere: they attacked young people, young people in all their colours, whatever their origins, their religion (if they had one), their political beliefs. At least 130 dead, over 350 wounded - at the very least a thousand direct witnesses of the carnage. Many of us have relatives among the victims and, if not, we have friends who have. The shock wave, the emotion, is profound.

- IV490 - November 2015 / France, Syria

The experience of Podemos in the Spanish State, its originality, its challenges

François Sabado — 2015-06-22T14:13:09Z

Presentation given by François Sabado at a meeting of the Société Louise Michel in Paris, May 28, 2015.

- Building new parties of the left / Spanish state, New parties of the left, Debate section

The changes in the political landscape in France

François Sabado — 2015-06-11T09:43:16Z

The French situation has often been approached as an "exception" in Europe. We speak of the French exception, referring to a history still marked by the French Revolution of 1789. This term covered, in fact: a certain type of social gains, a strong public service, a strong state, a strong and dynamic worker's movement, a high level of class struggle, social rights and democratic and secular freedoms won through historic popular mobilizations.

- IV485 - June 2015 / France

“Build Podemos, defending our ideas adapted to the reality of experience and our activists”

François Sabado — 2015-01-30T19:26:48Z

Greetings. We would like, first of all, to congratulate you for the intuition, the “flair”, the sense of initiative that you have had to buildÂ Podemos, from the beginning.

- IV480 - January 2015 / Spanish state, Anti-capitalist left

Charlie Hebdo – And now what? The events, their impact and the issues at play.

François Sabado, Pierre Rousset — 2015-01-23T03:31:21Z

“So you no longer want to hear about classes and their struggles? You'll get the plebs and disjointed multitudes. You no longer want peoples? You'll get packs and tribes. You no longer want parties? You'll get the despotism of public opinion!”

Daniel BensaÃ¯d, Éloge de la politique profane (In praise of lay politics)

- IV480 - January 2015 / France