October 6, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French.
After [former French prime ministers] Barnier and Bayrou, Lecornu (the latest to resign) has just set a new record that will be hard to beat: his government resigned before even taking office!
Meanwhile, life goes on. The desperate situation of Palestinians hangs in the balance of negotiations launched under Trump’s so-called Gaza plan. It’s a farce: even though Hamas has agreed to release Israeli hostages, the bombings continue relentlessly.
The genocide in Gaza is provoking outrage worldwide. The Israeli navy’s seizure of the humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza, coupled with the ongoing massacre, brought more than a million demonstrators into the streets of Rome, Milan, and Genoa on Friday, October 3, paralyzing Italy with a general strike. On September 27, 120,000 people marched in Berlin in solidarity with Gazans. Massive demonstrations had already taken place in Australia, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
The law of the strongest? But who are the strongest?
Beyond the Netanyahu government, big capitalists everywhere are openly throwing their support behind far-right governments and parties — as Bolloré and Stérin are doing in France. They are relying on brute force to keep exploiting workers, plundering public funds, dismantling health and transportation services, and deepening inequality and injustice. Governments are ramping up repression in the hope of silencing dissent and imposing “the law of the strongest.”
But the tide may be turning.
In mid-September, thousands of young people protesting corruption stormed Nepal’s presidential palace and — despite bloody repression — forced the government to flee. In Ecuador, soaring oil prices sparked unrest at the end of September. And in Madagascar, where three-quarters of the population survives on less than 77 cents a day, young people have taken to the streets, toppling the government and now challenging President Rajoelina himself. There, too, violent crackdowns have failed to quell the movement. Poverty, corruption, and lack of freedom — it’s the whole system that protesters are now targeting.
Gen Z: a revolutionary generation?
Now it’s Morocco’s turn. There, tens of thousands of young people have risen up in response to a call from the GenZ 212 collective, rallying in every major city. They’re demanding reform of education and healthcare, denouncing corruption, and condemning the millions squandered on projects like World Cup stadiums while schools and hospitals go underfunded. Protesters are now calling for the government’s resignation — and they’re holding their ground despite three deaths, mass arrests, and the brutal repression typical under the Moroccan monarchy.
And what about France?
In France, must we keep paying a debt that has only made the rich richer? Must we accept cuts to wages, pensions, healthcare, and education? While many of us joined strikes and took to the streets during the recent days of action, as revolts flare up just beyond our borders, the union leaderships keep spreading disillusionment — postponing resistance week after week with one-day protests that lead nowhere. Yet anger simmers beneath the surface, and sooner or later it will erupt — in the streets and through strikes.
Whatever government emerges from this institutional turmoil — elections or not — let’s remember this: it’s workers who keep society running. We are strong, and it’s time we realized that strength and used it to impose our own solutions, so that this world ceases to be a valley of tears for the many.
