France has been gripped by mass strikes and demonstrations many times over the last decade, Marc Lassalle examines the reason for the present lull and the strategy needed to renew them Read more...

Text of the leaflet that League members circulated at the NPA 2011 congress Read more...

Millions of French workers have put up tremendous resistance to President Sarkozy’s attack on their pension rights in a wave of intense strikes and marches – but now the battle has reached a turning point. Read more...

On October 22, 2010 President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered in the riot police to break the blockade of France’s 12 major oil refineries as thousands of petrol stations across the country began running dry. Read more...

On 19 October workers and youth mobilised for the sixth day of strike action against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform. Read more...

The uprising against Sarkozy is growing with refinery workers and tanker drivers crippling oil supplies, thousands of schools have been shut down by student walkouts, and youth from the suburbs have clashed with the police in cities across France. Marc Lasalle reports from Paris. Read more...

The class struggle is intensifying in France. On 12 October, more than 3.5 million people demonstrated against the government’s "pension reform". The rolling strikes are gathering momentum every day as more and more people join the fight Read more...

Michael Pröbsting shows how the Sarkozy government in France whips up racism against the Roma and migrants to deflect public anger against social cuts Read more...