Our French comrades and members of our sister site and organization Révolution Permanente respond to a debate published in Contretemps and translated to English and published in Jacobin.

While President Macron hoped that the mobilizations would weaken on their eleventh day, protests and strikes are holding strong across France. The need for a strategic shift has only become more urgent, as the Inter-Union places its hopes in an impossible reversal of the pension reform by the Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in France.

A French socialist reflects on the way forward after Macron invites Article 49.3 to pass pension reform.

At a national conference in Paris on June 4 and 5, 100 delegates came together to begin building a revolutionary organization that can meet the challenges of the coming period and beyond.

More than 450 people rallied last night in Paris to launch the Anasse Kazib 2022 campaign for the French presidency. It was an electric, revolutionary atmosphere with guests from working-class struggles giving fiery speeches, interspersed with slogans chanted by the entire room.

This weekend, Gérald Darmanin, France’s minister of the interior, started a controversy after a video of a crowd chanting “everyone hates the police” emerged from a concert by Soso Maness, the French Algerian rapper. The French Communist Party and its presidential candidate Fabien Roussel quickly lined up behind the denunciation.