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Deux éléments de l'actualité nous poussent à examiner l'expérience passée de la gauche radicale. D'abord la commémoration de 1968, et deuxièmement la tentative de la France Insoumise de refonder la gauche radicale sur de nouvelles bases. Etudier l'histoire de la gauche française est indispensable. Ici un article écrit il y a quelques années par mon ami Stéphane Lanchon sur l'expérience du Parti Socialiste Unifié. L’expérience historique : Le Parti Socialiste Unifié (1960-1989) Entre réforme et révolution La gauche française traverse une crise après ses échecs électoraux de l’année 2002. Du parti socialiste à l’extrême gauche, le débat est ouvert, sur le programme comme sur l’organisation. En dehors des grands partis, des appels se multiplient pour rassembler à la « gauche de la gauche », créer un pendant à la gauche gouvernementale. Le problème n’est pas nouveau. Pendant plus de vingt ans, des militants ont tenté, au sein du parti socialiste unifié, de transformer ...

John Mullen, 8 May 018 Neither Macron and the bosses, nor the French working class have made a decisive breakthrough these last few weeks. But the movement is solid and imaginative. Universities blockaded and classes replaced by radical political teach-ins, lecturers voting to give top marks to every student in their class (in support of the student movement which has halted classes for several weeks), mass meetings of thousands on campus, riot police evacuating sit-ins in the early morning: one might be forgiven for thinking that May 1968 is coming back to France. That would be exaggerating, but the wave of workers’ and students’ revolt is still going strong as I write (8th May).  The 1st and the 5th May saw dynamic mass demonstrations with the strikers at the head of the demos, and the 26th May is being announced as a « tidal wave » called by unions and left organizations together. After the 1 st May, the media was completely focussed for a few days on the fast food ...

Macron - one year is enough! Emmanuel Macron has been president for one year, and May 2018 is also the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968. In order to say "enough is enough" an anti-Macron carnival demo was called in Paris on the 5th May. It was launched by an MP from the radical Left "France Insoumise" group (France in Revolt). It was young and dynamic, was a great success and bodes well for the acceleration of a protest movement which has already seen fourteen days of train strikes, airline strikes, supermarket strikes, occupied universities and many other signs of revolt. Photos and notes here are to help explain what the movement is and where it might be going to anticapitalists who do not live in France.   Here one of the France Insoumise MPs is speaking from the top of the FI bus as the demo goes on. the tricolour sash is worn traditionally by elected councillors and MPs . The French flag is decorated with the Greek letter Phi, symbol of the France Insoumise. Tw...