In the 1970s the French government announced its next major airport expansion in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Nantes.
Too soon, victory for the ZAD led to despair
Tag: France
Nantes: squatted refugee centre evicted
At early hours last Wednesday, the prefecture of Nantes, with the green light of the presidency of the university campus, evicted the Castle of Ter…
ZAD: a month away from possible eviction
Following the announcement by French prime minister Edouard Philippe that the ‘illegal occupants’ will be evicted at the end of March,…
Surviving Zad’s uncertain future
Zad’s Council for the Maintenance of Occupations takes an in-depth look at the French State’s latest divide-and-rule project in the wa…
France: Progressives prepare to fight Macron anti-migrant laws
Campaigners are gearing up for the next round of fighting against Macron’s planned tightening of deportation laws in the early part of 2018 w…
France: ZAD declares victory as airport plan dropped!
In a communique the famous horizontal community Zone à Defendre (ZAD) has declared a “historic victory” and called for “expropr…
French Activist Facing Jail for Assisting Child Migrants
French activist Martine Landry is facing jail and a fine after she was charged with “facilitating the entry of two illegal foreign minor…
France: Rally attacked by police as lacklustre unions face criticism
Protests in Paris were attacked by police yesterday, with marchers under the CGT banner being tear-gassed as they rallied against labour laws being…
Indymedia Nantes and Grenoble Threatened With Closure
Following the publication of the statement claiming responsibility for arson in a Gendarmerie barracks in Grenoble, Indymedia Grenoble and Nantes w…
France: Fighting under the state of emergency
There have been a range of conversations in recent months regarding the situation in France — for example the consequences of jihadist attacks, …
Brutality of France’s police has precedent
This article was originally written for Harz Labour, a journal published by comrades involved in autonomous struggles in the West of France.
Spray and affray as Paris police spark riot with fire hydrant arrest
The police version of events is as follows: at 6.20pm on Camille Groult street in the south-eastern Paris suburb of Vitry cops want to collar a per…
France: National rally called to back workers who have occupied and booby-trapped factory
CGT union delegates have called for a national rally in support of workers at GM&S who have occupied their workplace and threatened to blow it …
France: Revolutionary syndicalists call week of debates to ‘kill the ostrich’
Activists with the Comités Syndicalistes Révolutionnaires (CSR) have announced a major new initiative to “kill the ostrich” of faili…
France: Tower occupation set to win migrant workers their right to stay
A stunning victory for migrant workers could be on the cards following a two-week occupation of Semmaris Tower in Paris by 105 people demanding th…
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