Archive for the ‘France’ Category
This is by Reem Abu-Hayyeh at the excellent IRR news service. Read the original here. A timely pamphlet aimed primarily at French trades unionists provides an opportunity to reflect on the FN’s growing appeal to working-class voters. ‘If we don’t stop the waves of immigration, in ten years whites will become a minority in France.’ ‘If we […]
Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France | Leave a Comment
Tags: Fabien Engelmann, Front National, Marine Le, Pierre-Yves Bulteau, Robert Ménard, Thierry Gourlot
Anti-Zionist antisemites
Of course anti-Zionism is not the same as antisemitism. But some anti-Zionists are antisemites. Here’s three examples. 1. Parisian anti-Israel protestors besiege Jews in synagogues. At the weekend, it is reported that “three Paris synagogues sustained anti-Semitic attacks over the weekend with rioters sending three Jews to the hospital.” Note well: not the Israeli embassy, […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, France, germany, the anti-Zionism of idiots | 3 Comments
Tags: #GazaUnderAttack, #GazaUnderFire, #HitlerWasRight, Operation Protective Edge, Pierre Minnaert
Left/right convergence in France
Several items from Tendance Coatesy, on the Voltaire Network, on the French far right’s links to Putinism, and on Godard’s fascist turn. 1. On Franklin Lamb and France’s Assad supporters: Counterpunch has published some well-informed reports on the unfolding civil war in Iraq, notably by Patrick Cockburn. The same cannot be said for the latest piece by […]
Filed under: France, Left-right convergence, Middle East | 1 Comment
Tags: Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Ataka, Aymeric Chauprad, Counterpunch, Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections, Franklin Lamb, Front National, Heinz-Christian Strache, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Malofeev, Marine Le Pen, Parti Anti Sioniste, Parti communautaire national-européen, Rassemblement Bleu Marine, Réseau Voltaire, russia, Syria, Thierry Meyssan, Volen Siderov, Voltaire Network
This is interesting, from Robert Zaretsky’s article on Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks”: Yet, it was the hand offered by the French philosopher Jean Beaufret that pulled Heidegger from the professional exile imposed by the Freiburg committee. Shortly after Jean-Paul Sartre, whose own thought was inspired by Heidegger’s work, gave his celebrated public talk “Existentialism is a […]
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Tags: existentialism, Faurisson affair, Holocaust negationism, Jean Beaufret, Martin Heidegger, Richard Wolin, Robert Faurisson, Robert Zaretsky
The Fred Perry Murder
From the wonderful web magazine Souciant, by Magadh, Jun 26, 2013 The fight, in which Clément Meric died, apparently started over some shirts. An 18-year-old student at Paris’ prestigious Sciences Po, Meric was headed to a clothing shop in the 9th Arrondissement when he encountered a group of skinheads headed to the same store. His killer, Esteban Morillo, is […]
Filed under: France, The right | 2 Comments
Tags: Clément Meric, Esteban Morillo, France, Fred Perry, Jeune Nationaliste Révolutionnaire, Paris, skinheads
From Tendance Coates, with apologies for some added hyperlinks and gently corrected typos: Counterpunch’s friend Israël Adam Shamir does not only write about Dreyfus on Entre la Plume et l’Enclume (between the Pen and the Anvil). He, for example, wrote a vibrant defence of Gilad Atzmon on the same site earlier this year […] calling him “un volcan vivant, un titan pourvu d’un sens de […]
Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France, Left-right convergence, Middle East, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 1 Comment
Tags: Ahmed Moualek, Alain Soral, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-imperialism, Égalité & Réconciliation, Centre Zahra, Counterpunch, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Entre la Plume et l’Enclume, France, Gilad Atzmon, Ginette Skandrani, holocaust denial, Hussein Triki, Israël Adam Shamir, Israel Shamir, La Banlieue S’exprime, Le Mouvement des damnés, María Poumier, new right, Nouvelle Droite, Parti antisioniste, Raba Serbout, Réseau Voltaire, Robert Faurisson, Roger Garauday, Samya Ayari, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Syria, Yahia Gouasmi
Coatesy reports on the “anti-imperialist” alliance between sections of the French far-right and the Assad regime in Syria.
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Tags: Frédéric Chatillon, Front Nationale, Marine Le Pen, Syria
Interesting on the partial and populist anti-capitalism of Francois Hollande, from Andrew Coates: Socialism, Hollande, has written, means putting capitalism in the service of social objectives. The Parti Socialiste dropped references to class struggle and a ‘break’ (rupture) with the market in the 1990s. But it did not become, as some on the left alleges, […]
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Tags: finance capital, François Hollande, France
From the US, this is an extract from a post on the nativist strain of Republicanism, from the excellent Sad Red Earth blog: In “The Vice of the Extremes,” I wrote of the transformed GOP that we have a major political party … that has descended to levels of anti-intellectual ignorance, corporate plutocracy, chauvinism, xenophobic […]
Filed under: France, The right, USA | 1 Comment
Tags: FN, Front National, Marine Le Pen, National Front, Republican Party, Serbian nationalism
Ultra-Sinister
New at Not Bored! Jean-Patrick Manchette: Gas Alert! (Contribution to the Critique of an Ultra-Sinister Ideology). On Faurisson and the ultra-gauche “Faurissonists”. Previous: Trop Loin; Ultra-leftism and softcore negationism; .
Filed under: France, ultra-left | 1 Comment
Tags: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Robert Faurisson, ultra-gauche, ultra-left
Anti-National Translation 