The French presidential election campaign for May 2027 is underway. Hundreds of thousands of school students have taken centre-stage in opposition to Macron’s austerity.
The government has reacted with huge repression: the worst in many decades; worse than May 68.
These teenagers not only experienced police violence, but also many were subjected to racist insults by police officers.
Position agreed by the 1907 Second International:
Any exclusions or measures against migrant workers would be, “a policy that is in conflict with the principle of proletarian solidarity.”
The Notting Hill Carnival cannot be reduced to corporate slogans about diversity. Its joy has always been political. It says that people who were attacked, excluded, and policed will not disappear.
Reform’s material interest in a racial explanation for attainment gaps is its economic agenda, which is designed to benefit high earners – so it needs to supply an ‘enemy’ to working-class voters that is not Reform’s policies.
Labour’s interest points the same way. Adopting the language of white working-class grievance allows it to be seen to address the concern, while continuing to operate inside the same fiscal settlement that produced the gap.
Colonial rule often destroyed pre-existing social and economic systems, replacing them with production oriented toward the European market.
The exploitation of enslaved Africans in the Americas and of colonised populations across Asia and Africa underpinned the industrial growth of Europe.
The extraordinary treatment of the police firearms officer who shot and killed Chris Kaba: “throughout this case sends a dangerous message: when police kill, the system will bend over backwards to protect police officers rather than hold them accountable and deliver justice”.
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