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Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20232 min read
France: Massive mobilization of workers against Macron's reactionary attack on pensions
All images via Twitter Following on the heels of a huge mobilization on January 19, an estimated 2.8 million French workers took to the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Mass strikes across France in opposition to Macron's attacks on pensions
All images via Twitter Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike and marched in Paris and in other cities and towns all across...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Happy Bastille Day!
Happy Bastille Day! Coming again soon to a country near you.
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Michael Laxer
Jun 20, 20229 min read
Left wins in Colombia & France: Red Review #62 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Colombia, France, Egypt, Ecuador, Malta, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Gustavo Petro's is the first win for a leftist...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the left block parliamentary majority for Macron in France
In a remarkable turn of events Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose unexpectedly good showing in the first round of the French Presidential...
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Michael Laxer
May 9, 20226 min read
Red Review #56 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, France, the USA, Colombia and elsewhere. Marx and Engels statue during the celebrations of Marx's birth, May 5,...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20228 min read
Red Review #53 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from France, Venezuela, the USA, Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere. Thousands demonstrate against far right candidate Le Pen in Paris,...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 202212 min read
Red Review #52 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of links related to the ongoing...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #659
Ho Chi Minh and comrades walk along a beach in Biarritz, France 1946 -- Daily LIFT #659 Ho Chi Minh and his fellow delegates for talks...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 202215 min read
Red Review #45 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Haiti, Cuba, Bolivia, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a special section related...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Josephine Baker inducted into France's Pantheon
Josephine Baker at the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 The famed entertainer and civil rights activist...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 10, 20211 min read
PCF wins a plurality, November 10, 1946
French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez on the cover of Time Magazine, 1946 On November 10, 1946, in the wake of the Second World...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #395
Ho Chi Minh with his goddaughter and her mother Lucie Aubrac, France 1946 -- Daily LIFT #395 When Ho Chi Minh was in France to attend the...
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