France
Planning for a new revolutionary party
Submitted on 19 November, 2008 - 15:55
Cathérine Ayme is an activist in the JCR (Revolutionary Communist Youth, linked to the LCR, Revolutionary Communist League) in Lille, France. In London for the Workers' Climate Action gathering on 15-16 November, she talked to Martin Thomas about the efforts of the LCR and JCR to launch a broader new anti-capitalist party in January 2009.
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A new anti-capitalist party in France: a French socialist youth activist speaks in London
Submitted on 30 October, 2008 - 23:47
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square (Russell Square, Euston or Goodge Street Tube)
Hosted by London Workers' Liberty
In the last French presidential elections, a revolutionary socialist candidate, Olivier Besancenot, won over a million votes, 4.2%, including 10% among young people. Meanwhile the French revolutionary left is strong and growing, and French workers, young people and students have fought many battles against Sarkozy's right-wing government.
Now socialist activists are seeking to capitalise on this movement by creating a new united anti-capitalist party, the "NPA": a process rich in lessons for Britain's divided left.
Come and hear Catherine Ayme, an activist in the French socialist youth organisation Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionnaire talk about the NPA and what it means for class struggle in France and across Europe.
For the Facebook group for the event, see http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46174220820&ref=mf
For more about France and the NPA see:
http://www.workersliberty.org/lcr-npa
http://www.workersliberty.org/world/international/europe/france
A Program of Action for France (1934)
Submitted on 27 October, 2008 - 15:06
1. Fascism and War Are Threatening!
To all the toilers of France!
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New party to be founded in January
Submitted on 16 October, 2008 - 17:04
At its congress in January this year, the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, one of the main revolutionary socialist groups in France, decided on a drive to reach out and build “a new anti-capitalist party” (French initials NPA) from below. (See www.workersliberty.org/lcr-npa).
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Minority faction expelled from Lutte Ouvriere
Submitted on 23 September, 2008 - 10:48
The "L'Etincelle" faction of Lutte Ouvriere has been expelled by LO, and will continue to work with the LCR on the project of a new united anti-capitalist party in France.
Bastilles and Bastilles
Submitted on 25 July, 2008 - 16:54
Bastilles and Bastilles
Two hundred years on from the day
They leveled down the wall
Of the glowering empty grim Bastille,
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“We are coming out of the shadows”
Submitted on 6 June, 2008 - 10:34
Ed Maltby reports from Paris
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General Assemblies - a reply to Koos Couvée
Submitted on 4 June, 2008 - 22:59Bonjour, la classe!
A reply to Koos Couvée
In his article, "ENS: Why have we lost?", Koos Couvée raises vital questions relating to the strategy of the student movement.
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Undocumented Workers' Struggle in France - a Second Wave
Submitted on 3 June, 2008 - 18:01
Undocumented workers in France are taking up new strategies in the fight for regularisation.
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Le Monde article on 22 May Transport Strike
Submitted on 21 May, 2008 - 10:18
The following is translated from the Le Monde newspaper's website.
Sans Papiers: “We want regularisation”
Submitted on 16 May, 2008 - 12:39
Since 15 April, a series of unprecedented strikes by undocumented workers have taken place in France. In the greater Parisian region alone, an estimated one thousand undocumented workers are involved in strike action. The strike and actions, led by the CGT and other unions, is mainly concentrated in construction and restaurants. All the disputes are demanding the mass regularisation of undocumented workers.
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France Education Strike
Submitted on 16 May, 2008 - 11:40
In France, students and teachers are continuing a huge strike against the Sarkozy government’s planned attacks on education which threaten to demolish state education, and open the way for a Blair-style “choice agenda” and private-sector expansion into education.
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French college students' and teachers' strike hangs in the balance
Submitted on 12 May, 2008 - 12:28
In France, and especially in the Parisian region, students and teachers are continuing a huge strike against the Sarkozy government’s planned attacks on education.
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Parisian Migrant Workers Strike
Submitted on 12 May, 2008 - 11:39
Since the 15th of April, following a sustained organising campaign amongst undocumented migrant workers undertaken by the CGT, the CNT, and Solidaires unions, a series of unprecedented strikes by undo
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An evaluation of the CPE movement
Submitted on 6 May, 2008 - 10:28
The 2006 Movement Against Precarity – A First Assessment
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JCR Congress - For the Organisation of the Working Youth
Submitted on 30 April, 2008 - 11:16For the Organisation of the Working Youth
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JCR document on lycée interventions
Submitted on 28 April, 2008 - 23:18
On Our Work in the Lycées – from the JCR's 2008 Congress Second Discussion Bulletin
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LCR rebuffs press slanders
Submitted on 24 April, 2008 - 19:23
Christian Picquet, former editor of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire paper Rouge, will no longer be able to hold on to his full-time post in the LCR office after the poor level of support won by his tendency at their recent conference.
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French teachers threaten action
Submitted on 14 April, 2008 - 08:22
As British teachers are mobilising for a historic strike, their French counterparts are engaged in a bitter struggle of their own, in the face of a ferocious government attack and a scandalously timid union leadership.
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Giving them the measles
Submitted on 20 March, 2008 - 21:02
A large teachers’ strike has been called for Tuesday 18 March in France, with teachers in many schools voting to strike indefinitely. As the preparations for this are underway, the JCR (the LCR’s youth wing) has been mobilising to get word out to lycée (roughly equivalent to post-16/FE college) students, at a time when the organisation has identified expansion into that age group as a priority.
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French local elections: defeat for Sarkozy, revolutionary left makes gains
Submitted on 19 March, 2008 - 16:17
The French Parti Socialiste (PS) has defeated President Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party in local elections.
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The Marseilles Supermarket strikers speak
Submitted on 17 March, 2008 - 11:49
Interview with Amaria Gacemi –
sandwich maker and CGT rep at the striking Grand Littoral Carrefour supermarket in Marseilles
Red: How did the strike start?
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The tragedy of Pierre Lambert
Submitted on 22 February, 2008 - 12:29
Pierre Lambert was in his time one of those “orthodox Trotskyists” who kept a banner of anti-Stalinist revolutionary Marxism flying in the worst years of Cold War and declining class struggle.
Fightback In France
Submitted on 19 February, 2008 - 13:25
Following the massive strike movement of last Autumn which ended in stalemate, French rail workers are preparing for the next round.
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Union action wins legal status for migrants
Submitted on 9 February, 2008 - 19:49
In France, bosses have limited powers to regularise migrant workers; and in recent strikes in the Essonne region, this has been used against them.
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Can France's revolutionary left make a breakthrough?
Submitted on 6 February, 2008 - 22:39
Reports, comments, and discussion around the LCR's plan to launch a "new anti-capitalist party" in France.
Strike in French Supermarkets
Submitted on 5 February, 2008 - 20:33
Strike on the 1st of February
For the first time on this scale, following a call from the major retail
sector union federations CGT, CFDT and FO, the big retail sector mobilised
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French left hopes to build "from below"
Submitted on 5 February, 2008 - 09:49
At its congress on 24-27 January in Paris, the LCR (Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire) decided to set about building "a new anti-capitalist party".
Lutte Ouvriere excludes its minority
Submitted on 4 February, 2008 - 23:27
Statement from "L'Etincelle": The Central Committee of Lutte Ouvriere decided on the 2nd of February to "suspend" the "Etincelle" minority faction until the organisation's next congress, which will be in December.
A Montparnasse rail worker speaks
Submitted on 4 February, 2008 - 11:23
Following the massive strike movement of last Autumn which ended in stalemate, French rail workers are preparing for the next round.
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