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Can Macron the Thatcherite be beaten? John Mullen reports from Paris (updated version of article : 24.09.17) Emmanuel Macron, elected president of France last May, and whose party won a working majority of over 60 seats in the parliamentary elections in June, is starting off the new political year with a bang, hoping to push through a series of Thatcherite reforms without a social explosion. But a new political movement is facing him in the shape of the France Insoumise, and the workers’ organizations are not going to lie down and take it. Two huge days of action and an enormous demonstration have shown a very encouraging start to the mass movement which is needed to make Macron back down. Macron’s attacks Oh so young, oh so modern, and neither right nor left: such was the image that Emmanuel Macron wanted to project as he became surprise winner of the French presidential elections last May. Five years ago, no one had heard of him, but, profiting from the...

Can Macron the Thatcherite be beaten? John Mullen reports from Paris Emmanuel Macron, elected president of France last May, and whose party won a working majority of over 60 seats in the parliamentary elections in June, is starting off the new political year with a bang, hoping to push through a series of Thatcherite reforms without a social explosion. But a new political movement is facing him in the shape of the France Insoumise, and the workers’ organizations are not going to lie down and take it. An initial huge day of action on the 12 th September reflected widespread anger at his attacks on labour laws. Macron’s attacks Oh so young, oh so modern, and neither right nor left: such was the image that Emmanuel Macron wanted to project as he became surprise winner of the French presidential elections last May. Five years ago, no one had heard of him, but, profiting from the deep crisis of traditional parliamentary parties of Left and Right, he came throu...