Despite noises about welcoming refugees from Ukraine in recent months, France is joining Britain in expanding the prisons-for-migrants system as pa…
France: Campaign against new migrant detention centres ramps up
Tag: France
France: Our Future Belongs to Us
The following text, first published at Paris-Luttes is taken from an as yet unpublished pamphlet produced in the wake of the French elections.
Supporters call for International Day of Solidarity with anarchist hunger striker Libre Flot
On 8th December 2020, seven anarchists were arrested by the DGSI, the French anti-terrorist police unit, in various locations across France.
France: Hunger striker Libre Flot hospitalised
Now on his 27th day of refusing food, the former Rojava fighter is still demanding that the accusation of “terrorist association” again…
France: Anarchist political prisoner begins hunger strike
Rojava veteran Libre Flot accuses the authorities of framing him because of his participation in the war against ISIS.
France: Revolts in the migrant detention centres
Rebellions are increasing in the detention centres of Vincennes and Mesnil-Amelot, with deportation refusal, protests against appalling living con…
Secularism, laïcité and France’s obsession with the veil
Last month, in the city of Drancy in the Parisien banlieu, where 80 years ago Jews were held in camps before being put on trains to faraway work an…
France: Lyon squat evicted in 7am raid
After months of threats from oil supergiant TotalEnergies, the abandoned school on Jean Bouin street was cleared out by a huge police operation yes…
The Zad of the Link: call to join ZAD du LIEN
The ‘L.I.E.N’ [“la liaison intercantonale d’évitement du nord” – The Northern Bypass or LINK in English] is the la…
France: Defending the workers’ gardens against an Olympic parasite
With massive building works for the 2024 Olympics being implemented, Parisians are organising against the systemic use of this “symbol of glo…
France: Cops spend their nights stopping migrants from sleeping
For the last few days officers have been showing up at camps along Paris’ Saint-Denis canal in the evening to prevent migrants from settling …
Two, Three, Many ZADs
A ZAD means a “zone to defend” (zone à défendre in French).
France: Prison overcrowding during heatwave sparks hunger strikes
After an astonishing decision to crush excessive numbers of prisoners into migrant detention centre CRA Vincennes left people living four to a cell…
America, Empire and Us: The Benefits of International Solidarity
Solidarity demonstrations and support for the uprising in America and the Black Lives Matter movement are spreading around the world.
Interview: Alessio Kolioulis on Colin Ward’s The Child in the City and its French translation
A French language translation of Colin Ward’s classic The Child in the City was published in March this year by Etrerotopia France – L’enfant…
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