Literature Is a Weapon | Ash Sarkar Meets Edouard Louis
At the LRB Bookshop Ash met French literary sensation Edouard Louis to discuss his latest book “Who Killed My Father”, the Gilets Jaunes, love, suffering and more.
Tag: macron
2018: the Season Finale of Centrism
Was 2018 Centrism’s season finale? Will Macron survive the Gilets Jaunes’ movement? And is there anything liberals won’t blame on Russia or Facebook?
‘Macron is attacking everyone, and everyone is fighting back’: Interview with a Union Organiser in France
Over past few months there's been an upsurge in worker resistance across multiple sectors in France. Joe Hayns spoke to union organiser Tiziri Kandi about the Clichy hotel strike, outsourcing, and the rail workers fighting Macron’s labour reforms.
WTF Is Going On in France?
Since the election of Emmanuel Macron last year, student and worker mobilisation in France has been difficult. But recent weeks have seen the emergence of multiple and simultaneous fronts of resistance to his neoliberal agenda.
5 Reasons Macron and Merkel Aren’t Going to Save Europe
Despite what the liberal press are saying, the EU is not marching towards a new era of prosperity thanks to Macron and Merkel. Here are five reasons why not.