By Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, president Emmanuel Macron of France has suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. Whether this will defuse the mass movement calling for his government to resign remains to be seen. On Monday 3 December, when the French prime minister, Edouard Philippe, met opposition ...
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The Committee For A Workers International (to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) held the annual meeting of its International Executive Committee earlier this month. This is Matt Dobson’s report of the discussion on European Perspectives: The CWI IEC discussion on Europe reflected the political instability and upheaval seen this year across the continent. Tony Saunois from the International Secretariat ...
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Time to build a fighting left force The ‘sweeping victory’ for ‘La Republique En Marche!’ (REM) – the party of neo-liberal President Emmanuel Macron- in the second round of parliamentary elections is not as resounding a victory as it might appear. It has indeed got 308 MPs out of 577, plus 42 for its allies in the Democratic Movement (MoDem). ...
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