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Newly elected CGT union secretary general Sophie Binet attends a demonstration on April 13, 2023 in Paris
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
THE biggest French union federation has called for mass demonstrations and possible strikes to push President Emmanuel Macron into “respecting the results” of Sunday’s legislative elections by allowing the New Popular Front (NPF) to form a government.
Mr Macron has refused to appoint a prime minister from the left-wing coalition and instead infuriated many across the country by calling on the political parties to construct a “republican” majority in the National Assembly.
Although no party won a majority on Sunday, the NPF alliance, which includes Jean-Luc Melenchon’s France Unbowed, the communists, the Socialist Party, the greens and various other groups, came out on top in the election, with 193 of the National Assembly’s 577 seats.
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
