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Politico – EU goes easy on France’s Bayrou as he tries to plug €53B black hole

January 16, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Yet more evidence that the EU’s ‘budget rules’ are wholly political – when it’s government’s Brussels doesn’t like, they are iron-clad, when it’s government’s Brussels does like, they are broad guidelines. Read the article HERE.

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Martin Barnay – The Franc Zone

January 13, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Analysis of the troubles facing ‘Francafrique’. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Aurelien Mondon – Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France

January 8, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Jean-Marie Le Pen was a whacky fringe figure for decades, but Macron’s failed Presidency may have paved the way for his daughter to take power. Aurelien Mondon is a Senior Lecturer in politics at the […]

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Middle East Eye – France says it can’t arrest Netanyahu because of ICC immunity

November 27, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Was this the quid pro quo to get Netanyahu to back a ceasefire in Lebanon? Read the article HERE.

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Kristian Laubjerg – The myth of French decolonization

October 2, 2024 Ben Wray 0

How France maintained ‘Francafrique’, and why it might not last. Kristian Laubjerg spent most of his professional life in development, firstly for the Danish Development Agency and lastly for UNICEF. In 2008, he established the […]

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Harrison Stetler – Emmanuel Macron Takes a Stand: No Tax Increases for the Rich

September 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘New French prime minister Michel Barnier wants to cut the budget deficit, but the president and his allies are resisting all talk of tax increases. They’re dead set on spending cuts — and to pass […]

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Juliette Gache – Barred From Government, France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward

September 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Saturday saw protests across France after Emmanuel Macron named conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister. The decision fueled claims that Macron had ignored July’s election result — but has also put the victorious left-wing alliance […]

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Thomas Fazi – The unholy alliance of Macron and Le Pen

September 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

While many liberals will be shocked by Macron’s deal with Le Pen, the two politicians have more in common than either would like to admit. In ‘Unherd’. Read the article HERE.

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Jacques R. Pauwels – Paris: A radical history

September 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Paris Olympics was a celebration of the bourgeoisie’s victory in the city, overcoming the revolts of the masses, at least for now. Jacques R. Pauwels is the author of The Great Class War: 1914-1918 and Myths of Modern […]

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Roman Zinigrad – How social media amplifies support for the far right in France

September 2, 2024 Ben Wray 0

If someone shows an interest in far-right content on social media, the algorithm quickly introduces them to a whole world of ethnonationalism. Roman Zinigrad is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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