France / To French comrades: ‘We fight together for a communist future!’

The fake left would have us despair at victories that advance the cause of the working class.

Sport / The Paris Olympics: a spectacle of imperialist decadence

What were they thinking of? How the Paris Olympic Committee turned the 2024 opening ceremony into ‘one giant gay parade’.

British politics / French greetings to our party: ‘a guiding light in the fight against capitalism’

‘Your courage and determination serve as a powerful reminder that a better world is not only possible but within our grasp.’

Europe / EU elections: austerity and genocide supporting warmongering parties routed

Why have the recent EU elections cast the ruling elites of Europe into a state of panic?

France / What would a real ‘popular front’ look like in France in 2024?

Under cover of ‘uniting against fascism’, French workers are being asked to align themselves with the true instigators of fascism and war.

France / New Caledonia’s indigenous population demands freedom

The Kanak people are once more in revolt against the machinations of French imperialism.

Europe / Chaos and confusion in Europe’s anti-Russia front

Regime leaders in Kiev, Berlin, Paris and London are equally unable to come to terms with the bitter reality of a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Europe / Uncle Sam heads for the exit in Ukraine leaving Europe in a panic

While Macron threatens boots on the ground to shore up a failing Ukraine, German generals’ leaked audio proves that European forces are already there.

Media / France: the new authoritarian journalism

How French media looked away from the suffering inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.

France / Europe: the peasants’ revolt

What is at the root of the crisis in European farming?

France / Red salute to French resistance fighter Pierre Pranchère

One of France’s last remaining WW2 communist resistance fighters has died at the age of 96.

France / Upholding anti-imperialist struggle under the flag of the Platform, herein lies our hope

French communists host international meeting to discuss the present crisis and the way forward.

Africa / Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the forefront of the African revolution

‘When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.’ – Thomas Sankara

China / Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang

A French communist reflects on the yawning gulf between reality on the ground and the propaganda lies being endlessly repeated in western media.

World / Belt and Road envy dominates G20 summit

US imperialism’s latest attempt to counter Russia and China underlines the shifting balance of world forces.

Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

Russia / Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south

Russian foreign minister tells press: ‘The west has a colonial approach to Russia; they are incapable of seeing us as equal partners.’

France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

France / The French working class fights on

Already there have been isolated instances of gendarmes refusing to obey orders. If the cotagion spreads, will the rest of Macron’s state machinery be more reliable?

Working-class history / Long live May Day!

Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

France / French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

If properly directed, workers’ action has the power to sweep away not only the rule of Emmanuel Macron but of the entire French bourgeoisie.

Africa / France is losing its dominance in west Africa

Chinese economic and Russian military assistance are enabling the region to finally break its neocolonial bonds.

France / Strikes in France demonstrate the benefits and limits of trade union action

Why are French workers being forced to endlessly fight the same battles?

France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

Germany / How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline

The New York Times called it a ‘mystery’, but the truth is that the United States executed a covert sea operation against its own allies.

World history / Annette Beaumanoir: antifascist and anti-imperialist heroine of our times

Legendary French resistance fighter and groundbreaking ‘Red Doctor’ who dedicated her long life to serving the people.

France / Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class?

Australia / Aukus deal splits the imperialist front against China

As Lord Palmerston declared 200 years ago: imperialism has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

France / Solidarity with French workers and their fight against Nato in Toulouse

Workers protest the militarisation of space and the subordination of their interests to those of US imperialsm.

Africa / President Idriss Déby of Chad: death of an imperialist puppet

After decades of kleotocratic tyranny, French and US imperialists are working to ensure power passes to Déby's equally corrupt and unpopular son.

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.

France / Macron government attempts to suppress exposure of police brutality

French workers continue to set an example in resisting the encroachments of the powerful upon their rights.

South Africa / ANC tribute to Marie-José Moumbaris

A tireless anti-imperialist and internationalist who dedicated herself to the South African liberation struggle.

World history / Women in the victory over fascism

Without the brave and tireless efforts of women across the USSR and Europe, vanquishing the enemy would have been impossible.

France / Macron wages war on French workers, making pension ‘reforms’ by subterfuge

Striking workers were duped into moving their battle into parliament. Can they regain the momentum they had on the streets before?

France / Macron is in trouble – and so is his EU-backed austerity project

The inspirational determination of the French working class is starting to cause cracks in the resolve of the presidential gang.

Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

We need to stand together in resisting the drive to make workers pay for the economic crisis of capitalism.

France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

France / Support the French strikers!

France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

World history / The origins of World War Two

How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

Italy / Italian dockers obstruct Saudi’s criminal war on Yemen

Dockworkers in Genoa have given a vital lesson to workers everywhere in how to harness our collective strength.

Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

France / Reaction of the rich to the Notre Dame fire tells a lot about the world we live in

Two of Europe’s wealthiest men pledge €300m to restore Notre Dame, while 8.8 million people continue to live below the poverty line in France.

France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly

Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.

France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions

Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.

France / Macron compares French workers to Asterix and the Gauls

Yet as the class struggle intensifies it is Asterix and Obelix who symbolically represent the determination to resist exploitation and oppression.

Disputes / French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions

Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.

France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

France / France heads for a winter of discontent

As Macron attempts to fulfil his promises to the bourgeoisie.

France / French elections produce … more of the same!

An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

France / Paris terror attacks: Further proof that we need to overthrow imperialism

Jihadi terrorism is the bastard child of the union between blind religious fanaticism and imperialist market fundamentalism.

Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail