Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of
Shannon Ikebe analyzes the far-right success across Europe and the complicity of the capitalist class in it, as well as the rise of the French left as an anti-fascist force.
Nedjib Sidi Moussa analyzes contrasting reception of Richard Wright’s work in the French left, including criticism among the Communists and support among the Socialists.
An analysis of post-election political developments in France
The threat of rising fascism in France, Germany, Britain, and the USA
The main story is the RN’s advance, not an NFP victory.
Review of a Netflix series on the efforts to get refugees out of Marseilles in 1940-41
I say he was a French boy, because in official circles in France and in society at large race does not exist and so therefore neither does racism.
The NPA calls on people to mobilize alongside angry young people, to gather in front of town halls, every evening if necessary, to express our rage and our demands.
A large proportion of young people are subjected to racism on a daily basis, victims of prejudice, discrimination and violence.
The most important fact of the last few days was undoubtedly the wave of police violence in Sainte Soline, near Nantes, on the Atlantic coast, a violence that reveals the feverishness of Macron and his government.
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one
Alain Krivine, a French revolutionary socialist, died today March 12 at the age of eighty.
It is therefore necessary to implement rapid, concrete and massive assistance to facilitate the transport of these people throughout Europe, to their reception centers or their families; it is an imperative of dignity and solidarity.
John Barzman responds to Aplutsoc’s criticisms of his interview with New Politics about social resistance to the French health pass.
Continuing debate about the health pass and social resistance in France: The editorial board of Aplutsoc responds to New Politics’ coverage.
The national day of strikes and demonstrations organized in France on 5 October was not a failure, but the mobilization was average in terms of demonstrations and weak in terms of strikes.
The fragmentation of the left has led to an almost certain second-round dual between Macron and Le Pen in 2022, with grave implications for the future of an explicitly left mass movement.
The French collective Aplusoc (Arguments for the Social Struggle) argues that recent protests in France do not represent a reactionary wave.
For the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, an analysis of Marx’s views on the Commune and its historical possibilities.
What is the significance of the Paris Commune for us today? A model for socialists? A heroic failure? Negation of the state? Or the first workers’ government?