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Macron’s Authoritarian Turn
In bypassing parliament and unleashing a brutal police force to impose deeply unpopular pension changes, Emmanuel Macron has allowed a mass movement to fan the flames of revolt across France.
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Tomek Skomski is a member of the Parti de Gauche and parliamentary attaché for La France Insoumise.
In bypassing parliament and unleashing a brutal police force to impose deeply unpopular pension changes, Emmanuel Macron has allowed a mass movement to fan the flames of revolt across France.
Millions of French workers are on the streets against Macron’s attempts to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 – an ideological attack on standards of life that the labour movement has united to defend.
In today’s French parliamentary election, a new coalition has united the Left around a bold programme and a common project: to elect Jean-Luc Mélenchon as the country’s prime minister.
Éric Zemmour, France’s latest far-right presidential candidate, made his name as a media controversialist promoted by a billionaire mogul – and now he’s pushing ideas like the ‘great replacement’ theory into the political mainstream.