The following are translations of editorials from the workplace newsletters of the organization L’Étincelle (The Spark), a Trotskyist group in France.
For months, hospital staff in France have been fighting for better pay. Then, during the crisis, they were sent to the front without ammunition: a lack of PPE …
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, …
Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …
“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Everybody trusts virologists, emergency doctors and biologists …
Coronavirus: inconsistencies at the top, discontent at the workplaces This post is translated from French …
On Tuesday evening, Edouard Philippe, after Castaner, Blanquer and Macron the night before, made his call for civism and “national union”. But all these representatives of power are much less comfortable when journalists relay the questions coming from the bottom of society as they still deny their own responsibility for the spread of the virus, linked to the damage done by their health policies. …
this post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Just ten minutes! This is how long …
The Algerians say that it is not simply a question of changing one president for another, it is the regime itself that needs to be changed. …
The majority of RATP’s railway workers had to end the indefinite strike that began on …
“If we had really blockaded for 45 days, then Paris would be a mess in …
After 38 days of strike action, Édouard Philippe dropped a bone to the so-called “reformist” …
Translated by Speak Out Now: www.speakoutsocialists.org Translated from Convergences Révolutionnaires – Special Issue; December 2019; …
It is starting to smell like trouble, all the way to the heads of state. …
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in thirty cities to protest violence against …
“In Lyon-II, we have students who go hungry:” the president of this university, Nathalie Dompnier, …
The government is under pressure. It fears an extension of the fights against its attacks, …
From Algiers to Santiago, From Port-au-Prince to Hong Kong, and from Bayreuth to Panama, from …
With one million demonstrators in the streets of Santiago last Friday, the Chilean mass mobilisation …
On October 16th, a train accident in the Ardennes forest, at the Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence level crossing, …
Since 9th October, the Turkish army attacks on North Syria have already killed hundreds. Towns …
Just as President Macron wished, the debate on immigration opened in the National Assembly on …
While there were no immediate victims, the Lubrizol plant accident, only three kilometres from Rouen …
Last Saturday in Paris, the government deployed its heavy artillery: 7,500 police officers were mobilised, …
Last Friday, Paris Public Transportation employees had the best response against the attack being prepared …
August 30, 2019; An updated article based on an August 19, 2019 L’Étincelle Editorial All …
Climate experts are saying that temperature peaks will get higher and higher… With the heat …
Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General …
The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the …
Marine Le Pen is happy: her party (RN) got the most votes at the European …
With the European elections approaching, we keep being told there are only two choices: punish …
In this European election campaign, Nathalie Loiseau and Macron are presenting themselves as the “progressive”, …
“They attacked the Pitié-Salpetrière hospital…” declared Christophe Castaner, the interior minister. That was on May …
Poor Macron! Not only his great bla-bla was a flop, but the streets are still …
Macron’s “great debate” is never ending. There was Macron’s visit in Corsica, that many elected …
Macron’s so-called great debate is about to end. And even if he is extending it …
After two months of a “great debate” shaped as a presidential one man show, Macron …
Algeria’s president, Bouteflika, announced he wouldn’t run for a fifth term… This clearly shows panic …
Despite the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators all over Algeria for two weeks, against Abdelaziz …
Last weekend, humanitarian aid was blocked at the border between Venezuela and Colombia. With the …
This weekend was the three-month anniversary of the yellow jackets fight with Macron and his …
The yellow jackets have warmed up the general atmosphere. That’s why February 5th was such …
There is really no way to bring the yellow jackets back into the fold. After …
Macron, with his usual arrogance, has encouraged workers to find again the “meaning of effort” …
December 11, 2018 Published in the Étincelle Workplace Newsletter — Translated from French L’Étincelle is …
What if we were witnessing the beginning of a general social fight against the rich, …
More and more road “blockades” are expected on November 17th against the increase in gas …
For weeks, there has been an increase in calls on social networks to block roads …
Jair Bolsonaro was elected Brazil’s president on Sunday 28th October. This former army officer has …
Since journalist Jamal Kashoggi disappeared while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, on October …
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