The Only Ones Who Should Be Deported Are The 1%
Trump’s administration has made attacks on immigrants central to his presidency. Whether it is the increase in Homeland Security funding, more ICE raids, detentions and deportations or the threat to build a billion dollar border wall with Mexico or the prevention of immigrants from six Muslim countries from entering the US – blaming immigrants is […]
Let Us Have Our Own Round!
No surprise. The polls correctly predicted who would benefit from the discredit of the left and the right. On the second round of this electoral show, we will thus have… a non-choice: Le Pen or Macron. Marine Le Pen wants us to believe she is close to the people, but her very bourgeois party has […]
May 20, 2017: To Save Our Planet… Change the System! (Baltimore, MD)
The world’s environment was in a dangerous state even before the election of Donald Trump. The world’s scientific community repeatedly pointed to the coming ecological catastrophe if carbon emissions were not drastically reduced, slowing the warming of the earth’s atmosphere. The agreements signed by previous administrations were not sufficient even to begin addressing the problem. […]
Trump’s Policies – Accelerating to Ecological Destruction
The world’s environment was in a dangerous state even before the election of Donald Trump. The world’s scientific community repeatedly pointed to the coming ecological catastrophe if carbon emissions were not drastically reduced, slowing the warming of the earth’s atmosphere. The agreements signed by previous administrations were not sufficient even to begin addressing the problem. […]
Imagine an Environmentally Conscious Civilization – Socialism
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. —John Muir We humans are nature itself, woven into the environment, linked to all that is around us by a million threads. For those of us who know how ever-expanding production and global warming are impacting […]
The Earth Is Not Theirs To Destroy!
Global Warming and Global Climate Change Is Global Warming Real? Yes it’s real. There is no question that the overall temperature of our Earth has increased over the past 50 years and continues to increase each year. The world has warmed more than 1.8°F since the late 1800s and the massive expansion of industry. The […]
The Assault on Science is Not New – Carol Dansereau
by Carol Dansereau Originally published April 20, 2017 at Counterpunch.org We should all “March For Science” this Earth Day. But let’s get one thing straight. The assault on science is nothing new. It’s been going on under Democrats and Republicans alike for decades. Trump’s attacks are particularly blatant and vociferous, but the situation was thoroughly […]
To express our anger, and to prepare tomorrow’s fights: Vote Philippe Poutou!
Working class people are angry – and rightly so – against Fillon, Macron, Le Pen, etc who are ready do give even more billions to the bosses. To create jobs, they say. But politicians have used this argument for almost 35 years; presidents and ministers, left and right, all have kept on shifting public money […]
Vote for a Revolutionary Worker – Vote Philippe Poutou!
Philippe Poutou is a worker at Ford near Bordeaux. His program is first and foremost a collection of emergency measures for the working class. It is urgent to stop the job hemorrhage. So layoffs must be banned, immediately. It is also urgent to increase everyone’s income. Minimum wage should be €1,800 after tax, and all […]
US Military Attack On Syria – Endless War?
On Thursday, April 6th, Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb a Syrian air force base that it claimed had launched a chemical weapons attack against forces opposing the Syrian government. The chemical gas attack was horrible, killing dozens of civilians, including babies. The Republican Party and many Democrats supported Trump’s action. Trump said he […]
Is Philippe Poutou’s Program Utopian?
That’s what they want to believe! Every time Philippe Poutou talks about his program, on TV or radio, there is always a journalist to reply: “but isn’t it utopian?” Are the emergency measures for the working class really utopian? Is it utopian to ban layoffs and job cuts, to spread the work between all until […]
Trump Budget: Making the Rich Richer
The media focus on Trump rarely discusses the actual policies of his administration. We hear about every new tweet from Trump, most recently his claim that Obama wiretapped him. And if it’s not a new Trump tweet, it’s a stream of accusations about ties between the Trump administration and Russia, constantly implying that the Democrats […]
Philippe Poutou: To Express the Needs and the Anger of the Working Class
Philippe Poutou is running for president. He is a worker at Ford Blanquefort, near Bordeaux, and goes through the campaign at the same time as he fights with his coworkers to save the 1,000 jobs in their plant. First and foremost in his programme to defend the workers’ interests, is the fight against unemployment. The […]
International Women’s Day – A Celebration of Struggle
Today women face discrimination, violence, and attacks on their rights in the U.S. and around the world. With the election of Trump and the Republican majority in Congress the attacks on women’s reproductive rights, healthcare and overall conditions of life face more assaults than ever. And when a president openly expresses horrendous attitudes towards women, […]
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Many immigrants are nervous about immigration policies under the Trump administration. Trump has proposed cutting off funding to sanctuary cities, building a wall the length of the border, stepping up immigration raids, and banning immigrants from six countries. The fear of Trump’s policies is justified but it is important to remember that undocumented immigrants are […]
Elections – The Bourgeois Soap Opera
In the last few episodes of the Fillon saga, the conservative candidate acted as the victim of a heartless justice system, harassing him for petty reasons (only a few hundred thousand euros). This is perhaps a stretch from someone who proposes to reduce the age of criminal responsibility to 16. For Fillon and his class, […]
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A Mistake? No, It’s A System!
Thousands of demonstrators protested against police brutality in Paris last Saturday. They expressed their support to Theo, 21, who was raped during a police check in Aulnay-sous-Bois. Other demonstrations took place in Caen, Nice, Le Mans, Poitiers, Montpellier, Dijon, Nantes and Angers. One week before, on February 12, there were 3,000 demonstrators in Bobigny. The […]
The Real Threat We Face Is From The 1%
The stream of tweets and executive orders coming out of the White House has been overwhelming. It’s like witnessing a catastrophic accident. Some turn away in horror while others try to figure out what is going on. And what is going on? Trump is the authoritarian boss who says he will fix things that he […]
It’s Time To Gather Our Forces!
The first weeks of the Trump administration have laid bare the hate-filled agenda they plan to carry out. This administration has already openly attacked immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, threatened to accelerate environmental destruction, to support corporations and banks while increasing attacks on working people. And as it gets ready for a war at home […]
Police Brutality and Gang Rape
Theo, 21, was raped during a police check in the Rose des Vents neighborhood of Aulnay-sous-Bois. No summary trial for the cops involved in the rape. They were just relieved from active duty… The police internal investigation section is trying to save the day by speaking of an “accident”, of involuntary rape, as if a […]
Women’s March: A Sign of Hope
On January 21, the Women’s March, one of the biggest demonstrations in U.S. history took place. Millions of people across the U.S. and around the world flooded the streets. People expressed anger at Trump’s policies – the attacks on women’s rights, on immigrants, his racism, his anti-Muslim and antigay and transgender attitudes, and his mockery […]
A Facelift and Here They Go Again
Valls had to swallow his pride after losing the socialist primary. After all the attacks he had waged against the working class as prime minister, starting with the El Khomri law, this is only deserved. That’s probably the message intended by those who did go and vote against him. But after choosing Hamon, will the […]
Something new with the SP? Absolutely not!
Not many people made the effort to participate in the Socialist Party primary on Sunday. Among the ones who did, only 30% – half a million people – supported Manuel Valls. Even people close to the SP did not appreciate the policy of Hollande and Valls, which has constantly offered gifts to the bosses and […]
No! To Trump and the Society He Represents
Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women, claiming that he can do anything he wants. Unfortunately the attitudes that guide his self-centered approach to the world are prevalent in this society. We are right to fear that this new administration threatens a massive elimination of the hard fought gains made by women and their allies […]
It’s Time to Fight Their Whole System!
We Should Expect the Worst A Trump Presidency is upon us. And we should expect nothing less than the worst from this administration. Trump ran a campaign of open racism and nationalism and sexism, promising attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, gays and anyone else who stands up to him. With his cabinet selections we see […]
2017: The world according to Trump?
On January 20th, the racist and misogynist billionaire is sworn in as the head of the world’s first greatest power. After his surprise election, the revolting real estate mogul seems to have gained the respect from other heads of States in the whole world, from finance tycoons, and… from the main presidential candidates in France. […]
May 2017 be a year full of victorious social fights
Happy new year: the world top five billionaires of the year earned €42 billion altogether. A Frenchman was among them, Bernard Arnault. Finally a success for Hollande’s presidency! At the bottom of the ladder, there has been an additional million people living in poverty in France in the last ten years. As for unemployment, even […]
Aleppo, sacrificed on the altar of the powerful
In brutal cold and hunger, over 40,000 trapped civilians in East Aleppo were still waiting to be evacuated last weekend. Evacuation operations had been stopped the day before by Bachar el Assad. Overwhelmed by the firepower of their enemies, broken by five years of continuous war, all of Aleppo’s neighborhoods have fallen, one by one. […]
Pollution hell
Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and most major cities have experienced the largest pollution episode in over 10 years For several days, the concentration of fine particles in the air was over 80 microgram per cube meter in Paris and Lyon. For the people living in these urban areas, this is equivalent to smoking two packs a […]
Oakland Fire – The Killer Greed of Landlords
A warehouse full of people went up in flames on Friday night in Oakland. There are 36 people confirmed dead, but others are still unaccounted for. The final count of victims of this terrible tragedy will surely rise. The worst part of this tragedy was that it was absolutely unnecessary. Due to negligence and greed, […]
Electoral show and class struggle
Satisfactory! That is how Hollande dared qualify his presidency, before renouncing another bid, making way for Valls to run, with Valls replaced as prime minister by Cazeneuve. Hollande, Valls: same track record While Holland renounces, Valls accepts the results of five years of attacks against the working class on behalf of the richest. Extension of […]
We Have Been Asleep For Too Long
Donald Trump is going to the White House and the administration he is forming is horrifying. Trump’s appointments began with Republican senator Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, and Stephen Bannon, head of Breitbart News, as White House Strategist. Priebus is a far-right Republican who opposes unions, the rights of gay people, and women’s right […]
How to Avoid Being “Trumpled” and Deceived?
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election provoked emotion and concern among the people who were revolted by his racist, misogynist and reactionary remarks. Here, in France, all the politicians who pull on the same strings as the smooth-talking American billionaire feel encouraged to continue, from Sarkozy to Le Pen. Workers turn away from […]
Their Elections Cannot Determine Our Future
Many people are in shock that a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-Muslim bigot who thinks global warming is a hoax and that torture is OK, will soon be the President of the U.S. Trump pretended to be an outsider – a man of the people. He is a billionaire tycoon, who tried to block workers at […]
A big electoral show
At the time of this writing, the result of the American presidential election is still unknown. But the winner is already known: the upper crust of the bourgeoisie of the world’s top capitalist power. Two different styles… On one side, the very bland Hillary Clinton, a multimillionaire who has been in power for decades, while […]
Their Elections And The Choices We Face
The nasty, nightmarish, reality show of the presidential elections finally ends on November 8th. This election presented the stark reality of the choices this system has to offer us. Around 60 percent of potential Democratic and Republican voters had unfavorable reactions to both candidates – small wonder! Two years of endless media coverage and billions […]
It is the capitalist jungle that should be broken up…
The government wanted to sell a beautiful story, that of a giant slum of 10,000 people, which it gently evacuated for humanitarian reasons. The government’s PR was almost perfect! But in fact, on October 24, Hollande and Valls launched the destruction of Calais’ slum, as suddenly as they had tracked the migrants and moved them […]
Carol Dansereau: A Socialist Perspective on the Environment
Revolutionary University October 2016 Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of the earth and of its people. We must acknowledge that many of the strategies followed […]
Joel Beinin: Workers and the Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and author of the recent book “Workers and Thieves” will discuss the struggles of the working classes and unemployed in Egypt and Tunisia and their roles in the 2011 popular uprisings known as the Arab Spring.
What are the police doing?
Dressed in black, with hoods or masks and some of them armed, the demonstrators marched down the Champs Elysees on October 21st without authorization from the Prefecture. They were lucky. Last spring, the riot cops gassed and clubbed others demonstrators with less incentive to do so… After playing auxiliary riot police against protesters hostile to […]
Robin Kelley: Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Revolutionary University October 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies and a prolific author and editor My talk reflects on the life and work of Cedric J. Robinson, […]
An Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Over the past weeks, the public has heard audio of Trump saying some of his most disgusting comments about women. He brags about kissing women without permission, and how he likes to walk up to them and “grab them by the p—y”, how he can “do anything” to them because he is famous. In Trump’s […]
Against the puppet show, let’s make our voices heard!
The debate between the seven candidates in the conservative primary has, unsurprisingly, shown that they agree to make us work harder, and to cut taxes for the rich and the corporations. As for Hollande, after ridiculing himself with his book of confidences to reporters, he now dares to go back to Florange and tell new […]
To the Point of Nausea
France, Europe, “welcoming lands”? What a sinister joke! Hollande may cry over the fate of the people of Aleppo, but those fleeing wars from Syria and elsewhere are treated as lepers by the government, while the racist and xenophobic demagogy is becoming commonplace here in France. A criminal policy The countries bordering war zones are […]
Working People Need Our Own Party
With elections one month away, it couldn’t be more obvious that what is being promised has nothing to do with solving any of the real problems working people face today. Donald Trump pretends he is anti-establishment and an outsider to Washington politics. Really? A billionaire businessman who brags about profiting from the crisis of 2008 […]
Solidarity with the refugees: Don’t let them divide us
While visiting Calais, Francois Hollande promised to break up the “jungle”, the camp where refugees wait in the hope to be able to go to the UK. The president’s promises were just what Calais’ conservative mayor had wished for: the same policy as Nicolas Sarkozy had led when he had the Sangatte camp broken up, […]
Layoffs and job cuts at Alstom, SFR, HSBC, Philips…
Bosses are on the offensive The announcement on September 7 by Alstom management of the closure of the Belfort site not only shocked an entire city but also weighs heavily on all workers in the group – they are 31,000 in the world, including 9,000 in France. Order book filled, grants, profits: Alstom has it […]
Standing Rock – Standing For What’s Right
For more than four months, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota have mobilized to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the past month members of more than 200 tribes and bands from across North America have joined them. More than 3000 Native Americans and their supporters have joined […]
Primaries on the right and on the left: The masquerade of the demagogues
On the right and on the left, we are treated to a parade of candidates aspiring for a shot at the presidency. Sarkozy and Hollande have disgusted so many people with their anti-working class policies, all their sidekicks think they have a chance. But what they have to offer is not much different: austerity and […]