Facilitate layoffs, limit the period during which workers can file a complaint to the industrial tribunals, cap compensation pay for wrongful dismissal, in short keep workers at the whim of their employers. No surprise, the project allowing the government to rule by...
Heat waves like last week’s – which hit 66 departments for several days – may happen more often in the coming years, because of global warming. So we might learn a few things from that one… “Situation under control”: really? Despite multiplying alerts, the authorities...
Macron will get a majority of representatives ready to go “forward”. Since Sunday night, the news media keep going on and on about this “historical result”. What’s really historical is the abstention rate (51.29%). So the “tsunami” of La Republique en marche (The...
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe just chose his general staff to lead the bosses attacks. Macron pretended to be “outside the system”, but now his government includes graduates of the National Administration School, old politicians ready to switch party, and business...
Marxist Economist, Richard Wolff, interviews Antonin Plarier, a French revolutionary activist in the group NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party) and L’Étincelle in France. The interview covers the recent French elections, questions of populism, comparisons to the...
