France

Air France workers begin four-day strike

Ed — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:34:24 +0000

Two-fifths of the airline's long haul flights and half of all other services were cancelled as a result. Disruption to flights operated by partner airlines, including Brit Air and CityJet, will not be as great though the strike is thought will cost the airline 100m euros ($127m; £86.1m).

What is the Left?

red jack — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:33 +0000

An excerpt from

Quote:

The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics

in Polemics, Verso, 2006. To read the full essay in pdf click here.

Where is the struggle going?

Ed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:37:34 +0000

From the time of our arrival the gate of the big hall at bottom floor was quickly closed, so the occupation was limited to the courtyard, the stairs up until the forth floor and the hallways of the floors.

For the unity of all the sans-papiers collectives!

Ed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:29:34 +0000

Something new is coming into force in this historically important location in the workers struggle in France. The occupation is made in an autonomous way against every "advice" and recommendation of the big political organizations and against the unions, and it is holding out well.

Lagant, Christian 1926- 1978 aka Christian Lag aka Christian Lague

Battlescarred — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:14:56 +0000

”An exemplary comrade….intransigent militant..demanding but warm, sensitive but a passionate political debater” André Bernard

Finster, Ramon, 1944-1996

Battlescarred — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:16:36 +0000

The Butte aux Cailles in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, lies south of the Seine. It is one of the least known old neighbourhoods of the French capital, like its working class cousins north of the river – Batignolles, Belleville and Menilmontant. The Butte rises gently beside the now subterranean course of Paris’s forgotten river the Bievre.

Fayolle, Maurice César, 19?-1970

Battlescarred — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:10:30 +0000

”A discreet, modest, straightforward, scrupulous and honest man, little gifted for speeches but possessing an excellent pen” Maurice Laisant.

70,000 Spanish truckers strike, blockade border with France

anarchyjordan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:30:24 +0000

In the latest show of distress with fuel prices, Spanish truckers on Monday began a blockade of their country's border with France, lining up their rigs and slowing them to a crawl to protest the cost of fuel. The strike blocked the highway in both directions in southwestern France.

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary

Flint — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:35:25 +0000

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary
by Alternative Libertaire

French docks blockaded in strike action

Ed — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:38:07 +0000

Sixty-seven vessels including thirty-nine tankers stranded at the harbor's entrance. Government officials, port managers and union representatives are yet to tally the costs of the strike. A 17-day walkout last year in Marseille alone cost Manutention Generale Mediterraneenne, the port's biggest cargo- handler, €1.5 million ($2.4 million).