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As the French state locks down following last week’s attacks in Paris, protesters have refused to be silenced. Some have already begun to defy its bans on demonstrations.

Positively the stupidest thing said about the Paris attacks came from the French president, Francois Hollande, when he denounced them as an “act of war”. Of course they were, but this war didn’t start on Friday of last week.

A series of shootings and suicide bombings killed at least 129 people in the French capital Paris on Friday of last week.

In the first hours after the attack, journalists and politicians took to Twitter to blame Muslims and demand they disassociate themselves from the violence

The shock of the terrible deaths in Paris has led to an outpouring of international solidarity from ordinary people.

A series of shootings and suicide bombings saw at least 128 people killed in six sites around the French capital Paris last night, Friday. Activists in the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in Paris spoke to Socialist Worker on Saturday morning.

What triggered the revolts, and what was the court’s verdict on these events?

Some 20,000 anti-racists marched through Paris yesterday, Saturday.

Chalon-sur-Saone council in southern France voted last week to ban schools from providing alternative meals for children who don’t eat pork. Anti-racists protested outside.

A series of bloody conflicts right across the world lie at the roots of the current refugee crisis.

David Cameron calls them a ‘swarm’ and to Sun columnists they are ‘cockroaches’. But every migrant in Calais tells a human story of war and poverty. Dave Sewell went to listen

Tories announce new clampdown as migrants die in Calais, reports Ken Olende