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France
  • Salim Lamrani , Huffington Post

    How Private Banks are getting Rich off the Backs of the Citizens. This post originally appeared on Opera Mundi. All European countries find themselves confronted with debt problems that impact sustainable public finances. The crisis has not spared France, the world's fifth largest economic power, something that makes private banks... » read this article
  • Raphael Satter , AP/Yahoo

    Editor's Note: This "news" article only adds additional evidence that Sarkozy is an idiot and psychopath. We've seen that in his thirst for civilian blood and ultimately for the murder of Col. Muammar Qaddafi in the October, 2011 war in Libya. In this case, Sarkozy would arrest and imprison anyone... » read this article
  • Video , Russia Today

    As violence escalates in Libya, active members of the NATO coalition face a growing backlash at home and abroad. Warmongering French politicians are quickly losing points with the population they are supposed to represent. French rapper Saidou says the home of “liberté, égalité, fraternité” is nowadays anything but. “French society... » read this article
  • Mohammed Khan , Al Jazeera

    Forcing women to uncover their faces will not create some form of 'moderate Islam' but it does unveil French bigotry. In one of my earlier pieces on the Arab revolutions (Tunisia's tide of defiance), I cautioned those brave souls risking life and limb for the cause of freedom in the... » read this article
  • Editorial and Stephane Hessel, 93. , Sapte Stele (Seven Stars)

    "Thousands of candles can be lit from one candle without diminishing it's life. Happiness never decreases by being shared" – Buddha You probably heard already, especially if you are in Western Europe, about the latest editorial phenomenon which some call The New Little Red Book. It’s Stephane Hessel’s small pamphlet... » read this article
  • Eric Cantona, Manchester United Forward , Presse Ocean

    The following video is of former France international and Manchester United forward, Eric Cantona, suggesting another way to spark a revolution. Cantona suggests that people should go in mass to withdraw their money from the banks in France on December 7th so that the powers that be listen to the... » read this article
  • Mark Weisbrot , The Guardian (UK)

    By taking to the streets to defend their pension rights from regressive cuts, the French are fighting for all our benefits A striker holds a CGT union flag as strikers block fuel storage depots to protest against pension reform in Frontignan, southern France. Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images   The demonstrations... » read this article
  • Karen Wirsig , The Bullet (Socialist Project)

    At the end of the afternoon of May 27, a mass demonstration marched into the Place de la Bastille in Paris. The march itself represented what can now be viewed as a low point in the national union mobilizations to challenge the proposed weakening of France's public pension regime and... » read this article
  • Joseph Kishore , WSWS

    19 October 2010 The strikes and mass demonstrations in France against pension cuts are the latest and most developed expression of a new stage in the class struggle—the entry of the international working class into mass opposition against the ruthless assault on jobs and living standards being carried out by... » read this article
  • Alex Lantier , WSWS

    16 October 2010 The French government on Friday ordered CRS riot police to disperse workers occupying the strategic Fos-Lavéra oil depot near Marseille. Similar attacks were carried out at depots in Cournon d’Auvergne in central France and Ambès on the southwestern coast. Port, transport and energy workers, joined by high... » read this article
  • Alex Lantier , WSWS

    14 October 2010 The October 12 day of action in France has highlighted the powerful opposition in the working class to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attack on pensions, including a two-year increase in the retirement age. With another day of action planned and gasoline shortages developing rapidly due to refinery strikes,... » read this article
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