Alarm at fascist mobilisation for Macron’s snap elections after EU Parliament surge
Protests sweep France against far right threat
Tag: France
Blocking the Internet during revolt: Kanaky and the suburbs as laboratories
A method once reserved for authoritarian regimes or periods of war is now being implemented by the French government in New Caledonia
New Caledonia: Kanak revolt confronts French state and settler militias
The revolt started a week ago in the south Pacific territory, after a series of disputed independence referenda.
Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference
One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the French syndicalists and anarchists of 1913.
La Baudrière evicted
Yesterday at 6 am in Montreuil, the anarcha-feminist TransPédéGouine squat La Baudrière was evicted.
La Baudrière under eviction threat from August 21st
We need people to sleep from the night of the 21st onwards
French squatters organise against evictions
The squats have received a lot of support from the neighbourhood, and solidarity is being organized.
France: Water convoy to press for action as drought deepens in Poitou
The bicycle and tractor rally will travel from the south-western town of Sainte Soline to Paris to demand accountability over the imposition of controversial mega-basins. It’s hoped that the week-long rally, ending in the capital on August 26-27, will draw thousands of people in opposition to the “draining of the plains” following major protest in
France: Sabotage at the sewage site
In a new communique, the Peasant Confederation has claimed responsibility for a fire that has shut down a controversial new effluent disposal site in Sorbiers, central France, which they say is draining poisonous waste into river waters. The sabotage, which took place last week, is the latest escalation in a long-running dispute over a sludge
The roots of the French riots
The gap that we usually see in heavily policed states between the “violence-done-to-people-of-colour-by-cops” and “what-those-cops-have-to-say-about-it”, is steadily closing in France.
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Legal and grassroots resistance as Gaza starves
In Britain, action to divest from genocide is showing no sign of abating, while South Africa is hammering the legal case home at the International Court of Justice ~ Dominic Free ~ “The world has failed Palestinian people.
Book Review: Minority Rule
Ash Sarkar’s discussion of identity politics is coming out during a liberal post-Biden “reassessment”, which some would say is 10 years too late ~ Anonymous ~ Ash Sarkar, of Novara Media and “literally a communist” fame, has written her first book, Minority Rule, whose central thesis employs a double meaning of the book’s title, describing
Birdsong not bombs at Lakenheath blockade
Action closes two-week peace camp near base for US nuclear bombers ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ Saturday April 26th 2025 saw a blockade of the American military base at Lakenheath in Suffolk—the final action of a two-week long peace camp.
The Rich ‘Take Up Space’
The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough ~ Earlier this month, for the first time since Valentina Tereshkova’s 1963 spaceflight, an all-female crew briefly took to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard for a total of 11
The 2025 Anarchist Bookfairs List
Calendars are rapidly filling up, but there should always be time to hang out with comrades, peruse the latest political literature and scheme over a coffee …
