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Sabotage and downpours greet a “grandiose” Olympics
July 26th: The authorities decided on a unique opening ceremony in the open air, and maximum security with all the police in the world — both are getting pissed on Hours before the start of the Olympic Games, coordinated acts of sabotage targeted several high-speed lines in France during the night, disrupting all traffic and immobilising 800,000![France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-10.png)
France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion
July 23rd: Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle
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What Does Putin Want?
July 11th: The Russian autocrat is not crazy, war is simply a necessity for his power and economic system
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The evolution of National Rally
July 8th: While its parliamentary surge has been forestalled, the French far right remains a neoliberal and repressive menace
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Paris Olympics protests: “A concrete mixer for tourists and speculation”
July 3rd: With the Paris Olympics heralding urban exclusion and a hike in surveillance, disruption and protests mark the passage of the Olympic flame through France
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German anti-fascist extradited to Hungary
July 2nd: Maja T now faces 24 years in prison, accused of attacking neo-Nazis in Budapest
![New Caledonia: The Kanak insurrection and the nickel industry New Caledonia: The Kanak insurrection and the nickel industry](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/nc92-1.jpg)
New Caledonia: The Kanak insurrection and the nickel industry
June 27th: New Caledonia has a quarter of the world’s nickel reserves, and each faction—separatists, loyalists and the State—have possessed one of the major factories
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Notes from the US: On all counts
June 25th: Using the Trump cult, the far right prepares to take over---no matter who wins the presidency
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Nothing is over
June 11th: Prison becomes inevitable for anyone who decides to follow certain practices, but to see us exclusively as "prisoners" would be to annihilate us politically, which is exactly what power wants
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South African elections: Long road to nowhere?
June 5th: Record-low turnout shows loss of faith in the ANC party-state, but popular power has yet to fill the gap