August 30, 2019; An updated article based on an August 19, 2019 L’Étincelle Editorial All summer Hong Kong has been rocked by mass demonstrations against a bill allowing the extradition of political oppositionists to mainland China. Three young oppositionists...
Climate experts are saying that temperature peaks will get higher and higher… With the heat wave that just hit us, we got a sense of the climate emergency. This did not escape Macron’s attention. At the G20 summit in Osaka he played tough, threatening those who might...
Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General Electric. GE, Ford, Peugeot, Carrefour: the government is an accomplice to the large corporations that are laying off employees, and is leading by example with job...
The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the bosses already are back to business. The bosses had waited a few weeks or months before announcing bad news about jobs, to avoid embarrassment for the government. But they didn’t even...
Marine Le Pen is happy: her party (RN) got the most votes at the European elections in France. Except it did not win by the expected huge margin; it even got less votes than in 2014. And many voted RN out of spite against Macron. Macron is happy: his score was not as...
