Interview with La France Insoumise: where will France go?

A conversation on the deepening political crisis in France and its implications for the left and the alternative.

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Interesting essay:
first part analyzing Bensaid’s inheritance of political theory/ strategy, second imagining how this kind of thinking might be relevant to “post-left” Indian political environments. I'm not familiar w/ Bensaid and only a few of his French left contemporaries; the nonlinear/ geometrical approach seems current as well as compatible with post Soviet dissolution.

#Frenchleft #DanielBensaid #politicaltheory #strategy

Daniel Bensaid and Question of Strategy
https://portside.org/2025-09-13/daniel-bensaid-and-question-strategy

Daniel Bensaid and Question of Strategy

Introduction: A Strategist in the Ruins of Defeat

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"#Palestine is another area where #LFI has taken a lead, to the chagrin of the traditional left-wing parties. It has been the only consistent voice speaking out with moral clarity and anger about #France’s complicity in #Israel’s genocide in Palestine."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/france-insoumise-melenchon-left-parties

#FrenchPolitics #politiqueFrançaise #Mélenchon #FranceUnbowed #LaFranceInsoumise #LFIbashing #MélenchonBashing #FrenchLeft #gaucheFrançaise #Gaza @palestine @MusiqueNow

The Countless Failed Attempts to Demonize France Insoumise

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise is the biggest radical-left force in Europe. Liberal opinion seethes against all aspects of the movement — but Mélenchon’s comrades haven’t been thrown off course.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon & Tariq Ali, Insoumission — Sidecar

An interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Sidecar
Jean-Luc Mélenchon | Marxism, Mass Movements, and the Magic of Elections

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The French Left’s Great Hope (Jean-Luc Mélenchon)

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#TheDigRadio | A Conversation w/ #JeanLucMélenchon

Featuring Jean-Luc #Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing French party #LaFranceInsoumise. How the #radicalLeft confronts and then defeats the far-right, in #France and everywhere. Recorded before an audience at n+1’s Brooklyn office.

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/a-conversation-w-jean-luc-melenchon/

#JLM #LFI #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #FrenchPolitics #FrenchLeft #FranceUnbowed #gaucheFrançaise #gaucheDeRupture #théoriePolitique #politicalTheory @MusiqueNow

A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing French party La France Insoumise. How the radical left confronts and then defeats the far-right, in France and everywhere. Recorded before an audience at n+1’s Brooklyn office.

The Dig
Combattre Trump et l’extrême droite, construire la gauche - Meeting avec DSA à New York

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Conférence de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à l'université de la ville de New York (CUNY)

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"As he visits the US for the first time, #JeanLucMélenchon, leader of #LaFranceInsoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future."

extract from #NowThePeople! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century:

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/melenchon-virtue-universalism-humanity-creolization

#JLM #Mélenchon #LFI #FrenchPolitics #FrenchLeft #PoliticalTheory #SocialTheory #creolisation #polFr #books @bookstodon @MusiqueNow

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”

As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.