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More than 20,000 right wing protesters marched in Paris last Sunday. They called on unpopular centre left president Francois Hollande to resign.

Headlines in France have focused for several weeks on home secretary Manuel Valls’s efforts at banning antisemitic comedian Dieudonné.

Sylvestre Jaffard asks if the protests against governments of the centre left in Italy and France are the shape of things to come

The French government said its military intervention in the Central African Republic last month would stop the country collapsing into anarchy. 

The French government is caught in a battle over who should pay tax. 

Suggestions on the BBC in a report from Sierra Leone that Africans would prefer a return to colonialism are used to justify Western military intervention. But such intervention has long created the problems it claims to solve

The British press is demanding Western intervention in the Central African Republic (CAR) after stories of atrocities and the threat of genocide.

Workers occupied the Marine Harvest smoked salmon factory in Brittany, north western France, against its closure on Monday of last week.

The murder of an anti-fascist activist has galvanised the campaign to stop the Front National, but the strategy of the movement falls short of what is needed.

Protests over deportations have challenged the French government’s racist agenda, says Dave Sewell

The fascist Front National (FN) won a by-election last week in Brignoles, southern France. It took more than 40 percent in the first round vote and 54 percent in the second.

Some 370,000 people marched in Paris on Tuesday of last week on a day of strikes against plans to make workers pay billions more for their pensions.