The French Left Is on the Way Back
Buoyed by its strong first round showing, the French Left gathered around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Popular Union is preparing for a wave of resistance – whether Macron or Le Pen emerges as president.
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Mathieu Bonzom is a member of the editorial board of online socialist review Contretemps, and of the Spectre podcast platform. He works as an academic in France, studying US left politics.
Buoyed by its strong first round showing, the French Left gathered around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Popular Union is preparing for a wave of resistance – whether Macron or Le Pen emerges as president.