The Left Berlin’s Phil Butland spoke to Paris activist John Mullen about what French president Emmanuel Macron hopes to achieve with the appointment of new right-wing prime minister François Bayrou.
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John Mullen looks behind the no-confidence motion in the French assembly and what this means for the struggle against the far right and for fundamental change.
°Õ±ð³¾±è±ð²õ³ÙÌýinterviewed Marxist activist John Mullen about anti-capitalist organising and the need for unity to overcome divisions within the left in France.
French president Emmanuel Macron has named right-wing politician Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, ignoring the popular vote that gave the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire the largest group in the National Assembly, reports John Mullen.
Whatever government is formed in France will be a minority government. But mass mobilisation will be key to how things play out over the coming month, reports John Mullen.
Journalist and author Pablo Stefanoni spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Federico Fuentes from Paris about the rise of France's far-right National Rally and how the left stopped it winning the parliamentary elections held over June 30 and July 7.
French President Emmanuel Macron does not plan to appoint a new Prime Minister until at least mid-August and is holding out hope he can cobble together a coalition and block the left from government, writes John Mullen.
Paris-based anticapitalist activist and Â鶹´«Ã½ contributor John Mullen spoke to German publication Marx21 on July 12 about the July 7 French election result and the immediate challenges for the left.
The victory of the far right in the first round of elections in France is a severe setback. However the left has also made real advances. John Mullen outlines an anti-capitalist perspective on the deep political crisis in France.
While elections are not at the centre of class struggle, the formation of left-wing electoral alliance the New Popular Front has inspired a wider and deeper anti-fascist mobilisation in France, argues John Mullen.
Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Susan Price spoke with John Mullen, an anticapitalist activist living in Paris and a supporter of the left-wing France Insoumise, following the far-right's gains in the recent European elections and French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call a snap election.
The June 9 European elections are shedding a sharp light on the political crisis in France, writes John Mullen.
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