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Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang

22Sep

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Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang

A French communist reflects on the yawning gulf between reality on the ground and the propaganda lies being endlessly repeated in western media. Aymeric Monville Subscribe to our channel How many more times will the CIA, MI6 and co be able to promote their baseless slanders without fatally undermining the credibility of the governments they work for? Aymeric Monville is the international officer of the Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (PRCF) and editor at Delga printing house. ***** I am back from Xinjiang, where I spent several days in the company of the writer Maxime Vivas, some of whose books I have had the honour of publishing. We visited Kashgar, a town close to the Afghan border with a 92 percent Uyghur popul...

22Sep

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A French Nuclear Fairy Tale

BY AXEL MAYER Flamanville 3 has been under construction on the Normandy coast since 2007 and still isn’t operational. (Photo: Morpheus2309 at de.wikipedia) In France, the nuclear industry is in decline and the nuclear company EDF is heavily in debt. At the same time, President Macron is once again promising cheap nuclear power and wants to have new small nuclear power plants built. A small part of the French nuclear industry’s financial problems is to be solved with EU money. In this context, the fairy tale of cheap French nuclear power is happily spread in France and also in Germany and the use of nuclear energy is praised as the miracle weapon in the losing war against nature and the environment. However, the price of electricity in France is only apparently cheap...

Burkina Faso expels French defence attaché for ‘subversive activities’

12Sep

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Africa, France

Burkina Faso expels French defence attaché for ‘subversive activities’

Posted by: John Phoenix Burkina Faso has notified France of the expulsion of the embassy’s military attaché for “subversive activities,” weeks after Niger ordered the European country’s ambassador to leave. In a letter seen by AFP on Friday, Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry warned that attaché Emmanuel Pasquier and his team had two weeks to leave the Sahel nation where military leaders last year twice toppled pro-France governments. The ministry letter added that the French military mission in Ouagadougou would be closed. France pulled out troops from its former colony in the face of mounting hostility after Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in September 2022. France’s foreign ministry rejected the accusation. “The accusation of subversive activities is ob...

24Aug

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Africa, France

Niger expels French ambassador

Niamey cited hostile actions by Paris, as it braces for a possible attack by ECOWAS Supporters of Niger's military government (CNSP) demand 'departure of France' during a protest at Place de la Concertation in Niamey, August 20, 2023. The military government of Niger on Friday gave French Ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to leave the country. The Nigerien Foreign Ministry justified the decision by Itte not responding to their invitation to a meeting and “other actions of the French Government contra the interests of Niger.” The ambassador’s expulsion comes a month after the military of the former French colony, led by Brigadier General Abdourahamane Tchiani, ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. In response, 11 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...

Kiev accuses Sarkozy of complicity in ‘genocide and war’

13Aug

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France, Ukraine

Kiev accuses Sarkozy of complicity in ‘genocide and war’

The former French president has called on the West to “get real” and resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine peacefully FILE PHOTO: Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky © Sputnik / Aleksandr Kryazhev Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy supposedly “deliberately participated” in organizing “genocide and war,” Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, claimed on Thursday. The accusation, posted on X (formerly Twitter) came after the former French leader suggested a diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. The Ukrainian official blasted Sarkozy’s “fantastic” and “criminal” proposal after the latter suggested resolving the conflict, ongo...

France’s Sarkozy urges West to get real on Crimea

11Aug

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France’s Sarkozy urges West to get real on Crimea

The EU and Russia need each other, the former French president has said FILE PHOTO: France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy © Gonzalo Fuentes / Pool via AP Diplomacy is the only way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, which should be a neutral country and a bridge between Russia and the EU, the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, said in an interview on Wednesday. Sarkozy, 68, was speaking to Paris daily Le Figaro about his upcoming book, ‘The Time of Battles’, a memoir that covers the 2009-11 period of his 2007-12 presidency. “We need the Russians and they need us,” the outlet titled the interview. Addressing the Ukraine situation, Sarkozy argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin was wrong to “invade” the countr...

France in flames after yet another racist police murder

28Jul

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France in flames after yet another racist police murder

The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers. Lalkar writersnel France’s immigrant communities, largely drawn from the areas of French colonisation in the middle east and Africa, often live in ghettos on the outskirts of its major cities. Suffering from lower wages and life opportunities, routinely harrassed and oppressed by police, and ignored by the majority of French trade unions, they perform the useful role of a permanently victimised and vilified underclass in French society – alternately a source of low-wage labour or a useful pool of unemployed workers from which to draw in time of need and to act as a downward pull on wages generally. While the battle over pensio...

French Police Attack Rallies in Memory of Nahel in Nanterre

26Jul

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French Police Attack Rallies in Memory of Nahel in Nanterre

On Thursday, thousands of French people took to the streets of Nanterre to protest the death of 17-year-old teenager Nahel, who was killed by a police officer who shot him in the chest during a traffic check. RELATED: 150 People Arrested During Protests Against Police Violence in France The Prosecutor's Office formally charged the policeman with voluntary manslaughter and he is currently under provisional detention. Meanwhile, in this Paris suburb, the streets woke up littered with anti-police graffiti and the remains of cars on fire. During the last two nights, the situation in Nanterre has been very tense as hundreds of young people kept protesting and launched fireworks against the police and public buildings. Although the memorial march started peacefully, a...

French rioters and Palestinian fighters send similar messages

20Jul

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France, Palestine Affairs

French rioters and Palestinian fighters send similar messages

By James Dorsey At first, comparing Palestinian gunmen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to rioting youth in France may resemble likening apples to pears. In many ways, it is. Youth in France are fully-fledged French citizens demanding an end to disenfranchisement, marginalisation, alienation, racism, and law enforcement and security force brutality. That is where Palestinians would like to be after 56 years of occupation with no prospect for independence or integration into Israel with the kind of rights accorded to all, irrespective of ethnicity or religion, by French law, even if reality in France offers a different picture. Yet, armed Palestinian resistance and French rioting have a common message: violence results from governmental and societal failure to...

French sportswear retailer sells Russian business

17Jul

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France, Russia

French sportswear retailer sells Russian business

Decathlon’s assets reportedly fetched up to $55 million A view of a store of French sports goods retailer Decathlon in Moscow on April 4, 2022. © AFP / Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP French sportswear retailer Decathlon has sold its Russian assets to ARM, a company that already owns a franchise of the fashion retailer Mango, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Evtukhov. The sale was approved by the government commission for control over foreign investments, Evtukhov announced on Friday. Russian law stipulates that all transactions for the sale of companies registered in countries that have supported sanctions against Russia must be approved by a special subcommittee of the country’s Finance Ministry. The sale of foreign assets is approv...