France: Against the Far Right: Advancing a Revolutionary Alternative
February 16, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The death of Quentin Deranque, a racist and fundamentalist far-right activist, has been used to justify a sweeping campaign of lies, insults, and smears. Media outlets and politicians—from the far right to the mainstream right and even parts of the […]
Capitalism is Destroying the Planet; Only Workers Can Save It
November 17, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Disasters follow one another and are becoming more frequent Temperatures are soaring, mega-fires are devouring entire regions, cyclones are ravaging everything in their path and droughts are destroying crops. These disasters are anything but natural: behind them lies a profit-hungry […]
Turning Point USA at University of California Berkeley
On Monday, November 10, University of California (UC) Berkeley hosted the final stop of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) college campus tour. TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, is a far-right Christian nationalist organization. It claims to promote free speech on campuses while in reality advancing bigotry against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ […]
France: Workers, Whether Born Here or Elsewhere, Let’s Unite in the Battle Against Bosses!
November 3, 2025, editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Last Thursday, the RN (extreme right-wing National Rally party in France) won a vote in the National Assembly for the first time: a resolution denouncing the 1968 Franco-Algerian migration agreement. Yet another opportunity for the RN to spew its racist […]
The Refugee Policy of Selective Compassion
The Trump administration has announced a new cap on refugee admissions: just 7,500 people for the coming year. This is a drastic drop from the 125,000 who were allowed in during last year under Biden’s presidency. Even for a country that is no stranger to setting limits on who gets this type of protection, the […]
France: Social Regression is Not Negotiable – We Must Fight Back!
September 29, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. For the past week, right-wing and far-right politicians have been rallying around Nicolas Sarkozy, a former French president found guilty of criminal conspiracy. These same people constantly call for making examples of punishments for petty crime, but cannot bear to […]
France: What Lies Behind the Surge in Social Unrest?
From a correspondent in France On Wednesday, September 10, and then again on Thursday, September 18, France experienced two days of major social unrest against the budget cuts announced for 2026. Between recurring political crises, worsening inequalities, and growing fears of being dragged into a “real” war, it is in fact a deeper anger that […]
France: Marine Le Pen Gets the Prison Time that She Demands for Others!
April 1, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. “The weapon of ineligibility will have to be used much more rigorously,” wrote Marine Le Pen (leader of the extreme right National Rally (RN) party in France) in 2012…. She has been taken at her word, the sentence given: four […]
The Wrong Way to Stop the Right
Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made news last week by contributing, for the first time in her nearly five years in the House of Representatives, $260,000 to the campaign arm used by Democrats in the House of Representatives. For her first few years in office, she resisted contributing to the larger fund, choosing to use her […]