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The right wing mayor of Calais, northern France, has been demanding the British government show it isn’t “soft” on immigration.

Dave Sewell looks at what socialists in Britain can learn from the unravelling of Francois Hollande’s Labour-style government

The sudden purge of France’s cabinet was neither the beginning nor the end of the crisis that has gripped French politics under Socialist Party president François Hollande. In prime minister Manuel Valls’s new team, former banker and architect of austerity Emmanuel Macron is in and critics of Hollande’s austerity programme are out. But those who...

France’s Labour-type Socialist Party government resigned on Monday of this week.

The political turmoil in France sends us a chilling warning about what we could face in Britain under a Labour government led by Ed Miliband.

New sovereign debt default for Argentina | French state attacks migrants and protesters

Between five and ten thousand people defied the police in Paris last Saturday and protested in solidarity with Palestinians.  

People in France were outraged by the bombings on Gaza. But the French state tried to deny them the right to express their view and their anger.

Metal workers' strike shakes South Africa | Maliki hangs on but Iraq may split | Massive march in Hong Kong | Former French president Sarkozy arrested

Thousands of workers across France protested today, Thursday, against Labour-type Socialist president Francois Hollande’s pact of austerity. The day of protests and strikes was called by the CGT union federation at the centre of the current wave of strikes in France.

Thousands of striking workers marched together in Paris on Thursday of last week, bringing together two major disputes. 

Anti-fascist protests across France mark a year since the murder of anti-fascist student Clement Meric, and Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in new anti-semitic outrage