Macron’s Climate Tax Is a Disaster
The Yellow Vests movement in France is raising up a vital message: blame the fossil-fuel industry and the rich for the ecological crisis, not ordinary people.
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Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Ordering Striking Oil Workers Back to Work
A strike at France’s oil refineries is demanding pay raises that reflect firms’ soaring profits. Liberal president Emmanuel Macron’s government is forcing employees back to work — but unions insist they’ll defend their right to strike.
Striking on Other People’s Behalf
Shutting down ports, roads, and railways has long been a key weapon of French labor. But overreliance on small groups of workers in “strategic industries” can also demobilize broader social movements.
May 1968’s Black Sheep
André Glucksmann died last month. Why did he and so many other French intellectuals turn to the right after May 1968?
“If the Factory’s Being Handed to Creditors, We’ll Blow It Up First”
In 2017, 277 French autoworkers facing job loss destroyed €250,000 in machinery — and threatened to blow up the factory entirely. Jacobin spoke to the workers about how they explosively put their demands on France's political agenda.
Europe Is Recognizing Platform Employees as Real Workers
On Monday, the EU Parliament backed a directive granting employees of platforms like Uber labor and social security standards just like other workers. It’s time to stop tech firms using bogus self-employment to deny their employees’ rights.
Assessing Léon Blum
In French Popular Front leader Léon Blum we find both the grandeur and misery of interwar social democracy.
Sending in the Troops
Emmanuel Macron’s decision to use the army to repress the Yellow Vests represents a desperate bid to project a tough-guy image.
Signs of a French Spring
A wave of strikes and a student revolt has shaken France in recent days — but can it provide the first real challenge to Macron’s agenda?
How Fascism Returned to French Politics
The rise of the far right in France has gone hand in hand with the growth of racist, authoritarian tendencies among self-styled centrists like Emmanuel Macron. The only way to beat back the fascist threat is by confronting those tendencies head-on.
Vengeance Against Terrorists Is Undermining Due Process
Criminal defense lawyer Raphaël Kempf has repeatedly been counsel for defendants in French terrorism trials. He writes for Jacobin about how anti-terrorism cases from France to Israel have undermined the bases of due process.
We Are Palestinians, and We Refuse to Leave Our Homeland
Salah Hamouri is a lawyer who spent a total of over ten years as a political prisoner in Israeli jails. He writes for Jacobin on how Israel tries to make life in Palestine unlivable — and why Palestinians refuse to give in.
A Strike to Keep Us Working
Strikes have spread to more than 200 emergency rooms across France, as nurses and health-care assistants call out the neglect of public hospitals. The striking workers don’t want to disrupt vital services — they’re acting to stop Emmanuel Macron from running them into the ground.
Shooting Rubber Bullets at Demonstrators Is, in Fact, Lethal
Police around the world have increasingly been equipped with “nonlethal" weapons. But the myth that these weapons are harmless tools of crowd control normalizes the use of rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters — and fuels police violence that often does kill people.
“A New Deal or ‘Papandreouization’”
An interview with Emmanuel Todd
The Founder of Surrealism Helped Inspire a Revolution in Haiti
In 1945, the French revolutionary poet André Breton took a trip to Haiti. Breton was fascinated by Haiti’s culture and tradition of revolt — and his own talks helped trigger a popular uprising against the country’s dictator, Élie Lescot.
Marine Le Pen’s Far Right Is Netanyahu-Washing Its Antisemitism
Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National claims to be a “shield for Jews,” even though the party promotes antisemitic theories. Dividing Jews into “good” Israeli nationalists and “bad” cosmopolitans produces a modern revival of an old antisemitism.
Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc
Emmanuel Macron won Sunday’s French election with the weakest popular vote for any winner since 1969. But the once “progressive-neoliberal” president has won over the old bourgeois right — the social force whose interests his second term will best serve.
No, the European Union Doesn’t Need Its Own Army
French president Emmanuel Macron has renewed calls for the creation of a joint EU army. The proposal smacks of a desperate attempt to reverse the old European powers’ declining influence in global politics.
Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film
In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.