The following are translations of editorials from the workplace newsletters of the organization L’Étincelle (The Spark), a Trotskyist group in France.
In brutal cold and hunger, over 40,000 trapped civilians in East Aleppo were still waiting …
Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and most major cities have experienced the largest pollution episode in over …
Satisfactory! That is how Hollande dared qualify his presidency, before renouncing another bid, making way …
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election provoked emotion and concern among the people …
At the time of this writing, the result of the American presidential election is still …
The government wanted to sell a beautiful story, that of a giant slum of 10,000 …
Dressed in black, with hoods or masks and some of them armed, the demonstrators marched …
The debate between the seven candidates in the conservative primary has, unsurprisingly, shown that they …
France, Europe, “welcoming lands”? What a sinister joke! Hollande may cry over the fate of …
While visiting Calais, Francois Hollande promised to break up the “jungle”, the camp where refugees …
Bosses are on the offensive The announcement on September 7 by Alstom management of the …
On the right and on the left, we are treated to a parade of candidates …
Last Friday, the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, went to Calais to announce the coming dismantling …
There was no summer break for government’s attacks against workers. As if forcing through the …
Brexit has prevailed with 51.9% of the votes in the referendum that took place on …
Unable to silence dissent against the Work law, Hollande and Valls threatened to ban demonstrations …
The massive success of the June 14 demonstrations is clear. The mobilization against the Work …
Gattaz, Valls and Hollande have tried all kinds of disinformation: they said the strikers take …
Since last week, the mobilization against the Work law is not measured just in number …
For two and a half months, anger has been expressed against this Work law that …
In the end, Manuel Valls drew the 49.3 to impose his made-for-the-bosses law. During a …
Having barely started, the debate on the Work law and its 5,000 amendments was stopped. …
Last week, once again, Pierre Gattaz (the head of Medef, the bosses’ union) pretended to …
Hollande’s appearance on TV last Thursday attracted fewer people than the crime series Falco… Anyway, …
Following the agreement reached last Friday in Brussels with the Turkish government, most migrants landing …
The demonstration against the Work Act of March 17, called on by young people, was …
Between 224,000 and 500,000 protesters were in the streets across the country on March 9! …
Already more than one million people have signed the petition against the Work Act of …
It’s our job to make them stop their attacks on workers! The Work Act of …
Poor bosses! Who could imagine their worries, their anxieties, their nightmares? Fortunately, Hollande is here, …
Five months ago, Europe was seized by a wave of emotion after discovering the photo …
Sweden and Finland are preparing to expel a large part of the migrants they hosted …
So Hollande went to India to act as a sales representative with 50 bosses around …
Hollande announced a “state of economic and social emergency”. Consequences: on one side, 9 month …
Hollande gave his best wishes for the new year in a festive way, but he …
Finishing first in six regions, the National Front (FN) comes out the winner of the …
Everyone to their action stations, during the Cop 21: 150 heads of state, 40,000 people …
The attacks on November 13 in Paris, sponsored by the Islamic State (IS), blindly killed …
Between them, “there is something strong”, there is “mutual trust”, a “special relationship”… During his …
Interviewed October 19th on RTL, François Hollande had to concede, about the early morning arrests …
Thousands of people expressed their anger, this Sunday, in major cities of Turkey, against the …
“De Juniac, resign”, “Management, resign”, “Valls, sold out to the bosses!” … “Fed up to …
Caught with their hand in the cookie jar! Following the revelations of the US Environment …
The migrants continue to make their way to the gates of a Europe that has …
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched this weekend in London, Copenhagen, Madrid, Stockholm and other …
Just days after being rejected by Greek voters in the referendum of July 5, the …
The leaders of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were determined, promising …
The migrants of La Chapelle, in Paris, expelled by the police, and their brothers in …
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