Geography Archives: France

On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola.

John Mullen writes about the Nazi and colonial origins of Jean Marie Le Pen, and how they continue to influence French politics today.

The trial over the decade-long abuse involving numerous men has shaken many, and requires us to demand societal and judicial change.

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power.

After the fall of right-wing PM Michel Barnier to a no-confidence vote, Emmanuel Macron has appointed a new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to attempt to apply the same policies. The Left Berlin spoke to Paris activist, John Mullen.

Under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, the expected lifespan of a prime minister has gone from three years to three months. Michel Barnier, the latest PM to fall victim to the rolling political, social and constitutional crisis that is the Macron presidency, was appointed in September and kicked out in time to spend Christmas with his family. His predecessor, Gabriel Attal, lasted a comparatively Methuselean six months.

For more than 500 years, Europeans have controlled the world, enforcing their rule through genocidal violence.

With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel.

An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.

Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.

For the first time in over 60 years, French special security forces have been deployed to Martinique in an attempt to suppress protests over the soaring cost of living.

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

Emmanuel Macron has named a prime minister from the right-wing party that came fourth in June’s elections.

President Emmanuel Macron’s determination to overrule July’s parliamentary election results brings Europe closer to catastrophe.

After President Emmanuel Macron finished a round of talks with leaders of France’s parliamentary parties on Monday, he refused to select a prime minister to try to assemble a majority in parliament.

French workers are taking advantage of the spotlight due to the Olympics, and the left victory in the elections, to strike and gain important demands, reports Jamal Elaheebocus.

A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.

A powerful struggle is taking place in Kanaky (New Caledonia) between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities. In the background, the US-led militarisation of the Pacific intensifies.

As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.

One can hate or admire any of the gentlemen now involved [in the push for peace in Ukraine]; I would endorse Satan himself if he could help end this God-awful war and move towards the urgently-needed peace in the area—and elsewhere.