Macron

Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic?

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Europe, France, Labor Struggles, Protest, Resistance

by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]

How Aligned Is the Atlantic Alliance?

December 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, War and Peace

by Ted Snider, published on Antiwar.com, December 7, 2022 The Ukraine war has caused some cracks in NATO. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will break. [jb] The war in Ukraine is stretching the NATO alliance. The pull is still gentle and the cracks still small. But the potentially endless duration of the war, the economic suffering it has caused[…]

U.S. Led Imperialism is the Leading Purveyor of Chaos

July 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Europe, Government Corruption, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Police Brutality, Political Analysis

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, July 13, 2022 To say that the West, currently led by the dictates of U.S. imperialism, is in trouble would be an understatement. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on July 7th amid an escalating political crisis of legitimacy . Three weeks before Johnson announced his departure, Emmanuel Macron’s so-called centrist alliance[…]

Class war and imperialist war

April 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles

Protesters face riot policemen while members of associations, unions and collectives, supporting migrants but also occupants of the ZAD (zone to defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, demonstrate against evictions on March 31 in Nantes, western France. by Rémy Herrera posted on Workers World, April 24, 2018 April 22 — France is no stranger to strikes and demonstrations. But in this early spring,[…]