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Monday, Feb 6th 2012


Articles Covering France

When British thieves and French thieves fall out - the Anglo-French governmental dispute in perspective

The French and British authorities are engaged in a war of words over which country will be first to be downgraded by the credit ratings agencies. At least the hostilities are purely verbal - these ‘heroes’ of Tripoli are prepared to use other methods when the odds are overwhelmingly in their favour.
The immediate cause of [...]

Films of the Year 2011

Films of the Year Archive
After a disappointing year in 2010, this year was considerably better at the movies. There were a number of big disappointments (I’m thinking mainly of Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay, Gus Van Sant, Steve McQueen and the Coen brothers) and some recently flourishing national cinemas (Taiwan and Germany in particular) were absent [...]

ILR Interview with Yanis Varoufakis

Below is an interview with Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis which I recorded on Wednesday the 14th of September in Leinster House. Michael Taft, Research Officer with Unite the trade union was also on hand to ask some questions.
Yanis is the author of several books, two which were published during [...]

 
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Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”

L’Humanite interview with Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
For sociologist Monique Pinçon-Charlot, the campaign against public deficits is an ideological weapon being used by neoliberals to do away with social rights all over the world.
Among the budgetary proposals to be discussed by the French government is a move [...]

For an urgent end to Françafrique: Open letter to France’s Minister for Foreign Affairs

An open letter written to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé calling for an urgent change to France’s current policies in Africa.  Signatories below. This letter was originally published in l’Humanite on April 1st 2011. This translation by David Lundy was published in l’Humanite in English.
Four years ago, on the eve of presidential [...]

Catherine Mills, “The more a health system is free, the more efficient and effective it is”

An interview with Catherine Mills, economist and social protection specialist, shows how to build a new health system based on solidarity. This interview was originally published in l’Humanité on March 31st. It was translated by David Lundy for l’Humanité in English.
Is the objective of the proponents of the Bachelot law really to privatize our health [...]

Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, France, Libya and Me

In Alain Badiou’s open reply to Jean-Luc Nancy, he chides Nancy for falling into the trap that the NATO attacks on Libya were in any way designed to rescue the insurgents of Benghazi. Badiou is amazed that someone so informed about geopolitics, and the covert agenda of the French government along with the other NATO [...]

Marine Le Pen Revamps the Same Old Ideas

The Front National (FN) Congress in Tours approved the transfer of the family business to Marine Le Pen. Jean-Marie Le Pen has handed over everything, including his goodwill. Gregory Marino and Lionel Venturini report for L’Humanité from Tours. Translated for L’Humanité in English by David Lundy.

Slicker… Marine Le Pen? In her first speech as president [...]

France: Not Victorious, but not Defeated

It is now possible to begin to draw a tentative balance sheet of the vast movement against the reform (or more exactly, counter-reform) of the pension system that we have seen in France over the last few months. We need to look at the depth and breadth of the movement, the forms that [...]

Why was May 1968 a social success but a political failure?

This article by Georges Seguy, former Secretary General of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) was published in L’Humanite on the 19th of October. This translation by David Lundy was published in the English language version of the paper on the 22nd.
“Lessons that are worth considering”
We are not in a situation that is strictly [...]

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Sins of the Father

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Tracing the Decisions

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