The Crisis Engulfing the French Left

The New Popular Front alliance looked like the best hope the left had against Macron and Le Pen. But after months of internal conflicts, it’s on the brink of collapse.

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«Néolibéralisme/néofascisme: la grande convergence ?» avec Thibault Biscahie & Cole Stangler

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Paris Is Not Dead

The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafés, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French-American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere—in its striving, working-class districts whose residents are being priced out of their hometown today.

The New Press
Could France FALL To Far Right? - w/. Cole Stangler

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Presque 10 mn de #DemocracyNow consacrées à la France et aux luttes pour venir à bout de la #contrereformedesretraites , je ne boude pas mon plaisir.

Merci à #AmyGoodman de porter notre combat au delà des frontières de l'hexagone.
Merci également à #ColeStangler pour son papier dans le #NyTimes "France is furious" qui explique parfaitement dans cette vidéo notre situation aux camarades étasuniens.

#Réformedesretaites #Burnbabyburn

https://video.liberta.vip/w/rD2tNr4UU8etnXGPrUkt62

Protests and riots in France - No to Macron's pension counter-reform - Democracy Now - March 24th 2023

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"Calls to clean up trash on the streets of the capital may fire up the president’s wealthy urban base, but they’ve fallen on deaf ears for most of the country, which has little in common with moneyed Parisians."

#ColeStangler

#France is Furious

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/international-world/france-protests-pensions-macron.html

#RéformeDesRetraites #NonÀLaRéformeDesRetraites #retraites #PolFR #64ansCEstNon #StopRetraiteMacron #GrèveReconductible #Macronie #Macron #manifestations #manifs

Opinion | France Is Furious

The damage of the past weeks can’t be undone.

The New York Times

" 'Not only is the government trying to do this #PensionReform that people see as fundamentally unfair, but they’re ignoring historically large protests even by French standards,' says journalist #ColeStangler from Marseille. His new guest essay in The New York Times is headlined '#France Is Furious.' "

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/24/cole_stangler_french_protests_pension_changes

#RéformeDesRetraites #NonÀLaRéformeDesRetraites #retraites #PolFR #64ansCEstNon #StopRetraiteMacron #GrèveReconductible #Macronie #Macron #manifestations #manifs

“France Is Furious”: Anger Grows at Macron for Raising Retirement Age as Millions Strike & Protest

French unions say nearly 3.5 million people took to the streets Thursday in a nationwide general strike to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron forced the legislation through the French National Assembly last week, using a constitutional clause to bypass a parliamentary vote. Macron’s government survived a vote of no confidence Monday by just nine votes, but public anger shows no signs of abating, with France’s major trade unions planning another nationwide protest for Tuesday. “Not only is the government trying to do this pension reform that people see as fundamentally unfair, but they’re ignoring historically large protests even by French standards,” says journalist Cole Stranger from Marseille. His new guest essay in The New York Times is headlined “France Is Furious.”

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