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Can the French left unite to take on Macron?
La France Insoumise, the Greens, the communists and the PS are seeking to forge a broad alliance for next month’s parliamentary polls, hoping to force the president into ‘cohabitation’ with a left prime minister. NICK WRIGHT sizes up the political landscape
Demonstrators hold a placard reading: ‘Down with work and its cops’ during a May Day march in Paris
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THE rough outcome of the French presidential election was the differentiation of the French nation into three distinct electoral blocs.
President Emmanuel Macron is the figurehead of the nominally centre right, wedded to neoliberalism, the Atlantic alliance and the EU, often socially liberal but invariably invested in the the property-owning myths and trickle-down idiocies of modern capitalist ideology.
Macron assembled a media-managed machine to incorporate the neoliberal elite and thus rendered both the traditional Gaullist party, now rebranded as Les Republicains, and the Socialist Party (PS) redundant as instruments for the rule of capital.
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