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Fascisation and strategy

Ugo Palheta — 2026-04-12T10:22:55Z

“Defence also means political self-defence, and therefore the broadest and most unified mobilization possible around democratic slogans aimed at preserving the political gains of the working class and oppressed minorities, and maintaining forms of counter-power or what we might call the infrastructure of protest (unions, neighbourhood collectives, anti-war groups, etc.).”

- Features / France, Far Right, Fascism

Gaza flotillas - stand together, for as long as it takes

Nico Dix, William Donaura — 2026-04-11T10:37:51Z

On Saturday, 4 April, in Marseille's Vieux-Port, at the foot of the Mucem museum, several hundred people crowded the pier to cheer the 19 humanitarian boats of the flotilla setting sail for Gaza.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Palestine, France

Macron relaunches nuclear weapons

Dominique Boury — 2026-04-09T06:12:30Z

By announcing an “advanced deterrence” and a strengthening of the nuclear arsenal, French president Emannuel Macron is reviving the logic of an arms race and turning his back on disarmament policies. On 2 March, at the Île Longue operational base, in front of the last nuclear submarine, the Téméraire, Macron announced a decisive turning point in the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France, Ecology and the Environment, Nuclear power

Kanaky: the era of colonies must end

Cathy Billard — 2026-04-08T07:34:56Z

The Senate vote on the constitutional bill concerning New Caledonia marks a new stage in the erosion of the Kanak people's right to self-determination. Behind an institutional veneer, the government is pursuing a strategy of strong-arming, which must be stopped by mobilization.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France, Kanaky

France: Local elections create springboard for left division

Léon Crémieux — 2026-04-02T09:17:02Z

Local elections were held in France on 15 March (first round) and 22 (second round). The confusion that has emerged, one year before the presidential election, is a sign of a fragmentation of the central bloc and the right, which is likely to produce a shift towards the far right and, in the face of this, a splintering of the forces of the Nouveau Front populaire (New Popular Front - NFP) which compromises the construction of a unitary alternative.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France

Land Day, day of struggle for Palestine

Édouard Soulier — 2026-03-31T06:37:43Z

Land Day, on 30 March, marks a central moment in Palestinian history: in 1976, a general strike broke out in historic Palestine against the confiscation of land belonging to Arabs by the state of Israel. It was the first mass mobilization of Palestinians in the 1948 territories, where they are supposed to be “equal”. The targeted lands are located in particular in Sakhnin, Arraba and Deir Hanna, as part of the policy of “Judaizing Galilee”. On that day, six unarmed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during demonstrations. 50 years later, the Palestinians are still there and continue to fight against the confiscation of land and the bloody repression of the Israeli state.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Palestine, France

Mobilization on 21 March against colonialism

An Gwesped — 2026-03-26T09:27:20Z

For several months, the French government has been trying to impose on Kanaky an exit from the framework of the Nouméa Accords, by calling into question the decolonization process, even though it is recognized by the UN. The so-called “Bougival Agreement”, imposed in July 2025 against the advice of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), provides for the creation of a “state” of Kanaky-New Caledonia integrated into the French republic. A formula that in no way corresponds to independence.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / France, Kanaky

For an anti-fascist front against the far right

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2026-03-16T11:43:30Z

The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican' right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.

- News from around the world / France

“A united and militant movement can prevent the RN from winning”

Ugo Palheta — 2026-03-15T09:10:23Z

The first round of the French local elections will take place on Sunday 15 March, the second on 22 March. There is a real possibility that the “traditional” right, which is increasingly radicalizing in a far right direction, will win in Paris, under Socialist Party government since 1995, and that the Rassemblement National could win in France's second, and very multi-racial, city, Marseilles.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / France, Far Right

France: 1995 - the feminist conquest of the social movement

Ingrid Darroman — 2026-03-07T15:34:25Z

“At a time when we would like to see “surging” mobilizations in the face of an exponential rise of the far right, we take a closer look at what the feminist mobilizations of the autumn of 1995 can teach us about the possibilities of unity today.”

- Feminism / France, Women, Historical events and figures