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France Can’t Ban Solidarity With Palestine: Interview w/ Salah Hamouri

June 4, 2025 Ben 0

‘Emmanuel Macron’s government is calling for a ban on one of France’s largest Palestine solidarity campaigns. The proposal is repression of free speech — and makes a mockery of Macron’s attempt to sound more critical […]

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”

April 21, 2025 Ben 0

‘As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save […]

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David Broder – Stopping Marine Le Pen From Running Is a Bad Idea

March 31, 2025 Ben 0

‘Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.’ In Jacobin. […]

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Pavan Kulkarni – A new military strategy of French neo-colonialism in Africa: reorganising under the cover of retreat

January 27, 2025 Ben 0

A comprehensive report on France’s manoeuvres in the Sahel, where governments face demands for the former colonial power’s complete expulsion. This article was produced by Globetrotter In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of […]

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Harrison Stetler – France’s Parti Socialiste Agrees to Bad Deal With Macronists

January 20, 2025 Ben 0

‘On Thursday, France’s Parti Socialiste refused to back a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou’s government. It sold out its left-wing allies for feeble concessions, renewing the party’s dismal record of tailing neoliberal centrists.’ […]

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

January 16, 2025 Ben 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 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 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 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 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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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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