If you want gossip on the love life of Ségolène Royal or a compromising video of Nicolas Sarkozy do not bother looking at the French newspapers or television, just switch on the computer.
Tales of the supposed dalliances and skulduggery of the presidential candidates are flooding the internet as the parties, supporters, bloggers, trouble-makers and comedians pile in before the April presidential election.
Distrust of France’s compliant media and a love affair with weblogs and video clips (…)
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France : Sex and lies on the cyberspace hustings
3 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Francia: He’s walking in Gandhi’s footsteps in his own way...
2 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Francia: He’s walking in Gandhi’s footsteps in his own way...
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He’s walking in Gandhi’s footsteps in his own way. There isn’t any personal ambition about him
Champion of the oppressed takes on greatest challenge - the French presidency
He is the walrus-moustached farmer whose fight against McDonald’s and globalisation saw him hailed as a modern-day Asterix leading the Gauls. But José Bové yesterday left his sheep farm in southern France, strolled (…) -
The European Constitution: 2007 and the Great Trial of Strength
9 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentA position statement by Francis Wurtz, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and president of the Confederal Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
"The year 2007, especially during its first half, weighed heavily in the struggle to determine the direction of a future European treaty. I recall that the European Council of Heads of State and Government assigned to the German EU presidency (which covers the first half of 2007) the task of opening a process of talks (…) -
What Future for the Anti-liberal Movement?
26 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
For the communist militants, it is urgent that the anti-liberal Left make known its alternative propositions during the campaign.
What next steps for the anti-liberal movement? Can the disagreement concerning the candidature for the presidential election be surmounted? How?
"The passage by force (for the candidacy) of the French Communist Party (PCF), and, on another scale, the refusal of the leaders of the Communist Revolutionary League (LCR) to engage in the process, will leave scars", (…) -
Marie-George Buffet: "We should declare war on the Right"
17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
At the close of work at the National Conference, Marie-George Buffet notably had to say:
"We measure the unparalleled stakes in the 2007 elections, for the future of our country: either to slide into bi-partism, with its hopeless succession of alternances, or instead to give rise to a popular alternative to neo-liberal politics. This must be our objective: to construct on the Left a popular and political majority, around a project capable of changing our life. This ambition, I sum up in (…) -
A Candidature to Succeed - The Communists United and Determined
17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
PCF: Marie-George Buffet is proposed as anti-liberal [1] candidate in the presidential election. The delegates to the party’s National Conference approve by 80% the strategy for 2007. The objective: to construct a vast assembly of all anti-liberal forces. This decision will be submitted to a vote by all party members in November.
2007: The National Conference of the French Communist Party (PCF), this weekend, proposed by a majority of more than 80% the candidature of Marie-George Buffet to (…)