Geography Archives: France

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

“It is the most painful manifestation of a climate emergency that is making… wildfires more voracious and heatwaves more frequent, and as a result our land more vulnerable,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Urgent action is required to stem the growing tide of misogynistic abuse and sexual violence against women, writes Terina Hine.

The medievalist scholar was captured by the Gestapo while participating in the French Resistance and was later tortured and executed by firing squad.

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

Europe’s rulers are arming for a fight over their place in a world Washington can no longer hold together. They wave the banner of “Russian aggression,” but what they are after is control of Eurasia’s resources, pipelines, ports and trade routes.

The Pan-African summit against imperialism.

CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities.

After restoring the France-backed regime of Patrice Talon following a coup, foreign troops have remained in Benin, maintaining control over the Presidential residence and several key government buildings.

Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned PhDs at Paris 8 University and Emory University. An accomplished scholar, he has published works for many outlets, both in the United States and in France. He is the editor of the English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s book Western Marxism: How It Was Born, […]

When Nietzsche discovered Stendhal it was rather late in his life, but he remarked that reading Stendhal was “one of the most beautiful strokes of fortune of my life.” This is exactly how it felt for me to discover Michel Clouscard. It was Marx who woke me from a dogmatic slumber out of left-Nietzscheanism; Clouscard […]

More important than anything else, we must insist that as long as Zionism ideologically dominates the reality in historical Palestine, there will be no Palestinian self-determination, freedom, or liberation.

Mass mobilisations of the left brought down the French government, but these must be maintained to prevent the right from gaining from the crisis, argues John Mullen.

Most of the Impressionist artists were from comfortable, if not wealthy, families. This relative privilege coloured their attitudes to contemporary events.

As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonizing vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.

Interview with French decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja.

France’s nuclear weapons stockpile has remained stable over the past decade and contains approximately 290 warheads for delivery by ballistic missile submarines and aircraft.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has said the Israeli regime kidnapped her and other pro-Palestinian activists in international waters while they were aboard the Gaza-bound Madleen aid ship.

Popular backlash against France’s brutal yet ineffective counter-terrorism operations is compelling President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw forces from across Africa.