France

Arles Prison Statement

Video recorded by 3 anonymous prisoners detained at the Arles prison in southern France, denouncing conditions in the prison system and the role of prisons and sentencing in society and its effects on incarcerated individuals.

Strikes Against Pension Reform in France

Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 5 2020 09:29

Governments and bosses have divided the class, between “national” and “foreign” workers, young and old, public and private, all in the name of the so-called national interest. But workers in France have given an inspiration to workers everywhere.

Room maids strike back at a Paris hotel

Submitted by NancyPasReagan on Feb 24 2020 19:46

Nancy Pas Reagan on the struggle of Parisien cleaners who have been on strike since July 2019.

Solidarity With Strikes In France!

Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Feb 16 2020 08:52

Donation request from a French railway worker, February 2020
Video, 4mins: https://en.labournet.tv/solidarity-strikes-france

The Garden of Babylon: Nature, a Revolutionary Force – Bernard Charbonneau

Bernard Charbonneau’s The Garden of Babylon (1969) is not only an impassioned, deeply personal and nostalgic manifesto on behalf of nature, traditional farming and rural culture—which are being destroyed by industrial and urban expansion and by government policies supposedly designed to save them but which in fact only promote financial interests and mass tourism—but also a revolutionary polemic on behalf of human freedom, whose indivisible unity with nature was ambiguously reflected in the “feeling of nature” that arose during the 18th century: “it was no mere coincidence that the century that discovered nature was also the century of the individual and his freedom”.

Fighting Macron’s pension reform means relaunching the wider fight for higher wages everywhere - Mouvement Communiste

A leaflet distributed during the recent strikes and demonstartions against new pension reforms in France.

We'll go on tomorrow!

Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Dec 10 2019 08:49

On Dezember 5, 2019 in France a massive strike wave against the pension reform began.

France: Following the SNCF Mechanics' Struggle, The Fight in the Hospitals Shows the Way

Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 27 2019 19:19

In spring 2019, a crisis on an unprecedented scale was sparked in French hospitals. The emergency services went on strike in massive numbers. Barely three months from its beginnings on 18 March, in the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, it had spread to around a hundred establishments all across France by July. The movement will not stop spreading as long as the situation remains untenable. In September, the number of emergency services on strike was 239, or more than half of all services. This mobilisation has not died down and even rose to 267 services on strike in mid-October.

Balance sheet and perspective of the current proletarian struggles all over the world

Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Nov 14 2019 16:49

This past year we see revolts one after the other all over the world: revolts that lead Macron to visit the bunkers of the Elysée, that make Lenin Moreno move the seat of the government to Guayaquil, that assault the barracks and the headquarters of bourgeois parties in Iraq while reviving the memory of the insurrection of 1991, that topple one after the other prime ministers in Haiti or that plant a black flag in the Hong Kong parliament. The world bourgeoisie is beginning to get afraid.