Tens of Thousands in France Protest Racist Security and Anti-Muslim Laws

Demonstrations continued across France this past weekend, for the third week in a row. The Macron government is pushing for a “security law” that would criminalize filming police and an “anti-separatism” law that is nothing less than legalized Islamophobia.

France Rises Up After Police Beat Black Man

In Paris and other cities in France, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday, November 28, to demonstrate against the government’s proposed law to restrict freedoms and protect the cops.

The Crushing of Chechnya’s Aspirations for Independence: An Interview with Tony Wood

Phillipe Alcoy interviews historian Tony Wood on the history of Chechnya, the two Chechen-Russian wars, and the ongoing hostility towards Chechens in France and elsewhere.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Blames the “Chechen Community” for Murder of Teacher in France

Last Friday, teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by an 18-year-old of Chechen descent. The government of Emmanuel Macron is using this horrific crime to attack all Muslims. Now he is getting support from the left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

French Government Weaponizes Teacher’s Murder to Spread Islamophobia

After the murder of teacher Samuel Paty outside of Paris last Friday, the government of Emmanuel Macron is going on the offensive against several Muslim organizations that have nothing to do with the horrific crime. The government is proposing a law against "separatism" and trying to dissolve Muslim organizations.

Disputes Between U.S. and China Dominate UN General Assembly

This Year's remote meeting of the United Nations General Assembly reflected the continued global health crisis as well as the ongoing and increasingly sharp economic battle between the US and China.

France’s New Anticapitalist Party: Some Lessons for Revolutionaries

The history of the New Anticapitalist Party in France, which coincides with a decade-long period of intense class struggle in the country, is instructive for revolutionaries in the United States seeking a path forward to building an independent working-class party that will fight for socialism. So too are the nature of the current crisis of the NPA and the crisis of leadership that Leon Trotsky wrote about in 1938.

Support Imane Boun — Harassed by the Right With Government Support!

Imane Boun, an Algerian-born French student, is being subjected to a right-wing harassment campaign --- part of wider anti-Muslim attacks that have been ramping up in France. Here we reproduce a press release from the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) Youth in her support, to which some explanatory information has been added for a non-French readership.

France: Socialist Trade Union Leader Receives Death Threat

Right-wing intimidation of activists in France, which has been ramping up recently, has taken a new turn with a public death threat against Anasse Kazib --- a trade union activist and a comrade of Left Voice’s sister organization.