Politics is becoming polarised in austerity Europe. We must empower the working class with a revolutionary perspective, says Callum Williamson The results from the first round of voting in the French presidential elections were another indication of a growing rage against the liberal-capitalist political establishment, a rage which the populist right has been the most successful ...
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why such history is not ...
Special report from Frances Grahl, a student in Tours, on the general strike and growing student unrest in France France came together for a day on Thursday 29th January as public and private sector unions came out in a general strike. Between 11 and 2.52 million people marched to protest against a series of government reforms ...