The present movement against the CPE labour laws contains elements of all the struggles in France against neo-liberalism of the past decade—and is in some ways a culmination of each of them.
Some of the biggest construction companies at the heart of New Labour’s PFI privatisation project stand accused of running blacklists to bar trade union militants from employment.
It’s worth reminding ourselves that it is less than a year since Tony Blair won his historic third general election victory—and already he is in real trouble.
Many people have noted that the movement in France today is in the vanguard of a growing consensus that neo-liberal capitalism cannot be left to dominate the world. This is related to the fact that France has a particular history of struggle which has never been wiped out.
Danièle Obono is a student activist at the Sorbonne university in Paris, which has been shut down by the authorities since riot police attacked a student occupation on 11 March. She spoke to Socialist Worker about how students built for this Tuesday’s strike
Huge numbers of young people and workers took to the streets of France on Tuesday in continuing protests against the right wing government’s CPE youth labour laws.
New Labour has admitted it faces heavy losses in the 4 May local elections. Ministers and MPs have been asked to go out and personally deliver the party’s leaflets.
I don’t suppose that sitting in the New Labour cabinet is one of the most comfortable places to park your backside at the moment. I have a sense that they’re losing the one thing that the real rulers of the country want them to have—ideological control.
Galloway: ‘Respect will save Queens Market’
Dozens of Respect members joined MP George Galloway during a walkabout in Newham, east London, last Saturday.
The work of the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett has long prompted a profound sense of unease among left wing literary critics, even among those sympathetic to his work.
