ADDED 03/23/2019
FROM 03/22/2019 | Financial Times
BY Victor Mallet
French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision to use anti-terrorist troops to help police control any violent demonstrations in Paris this weekend has triggered fierce criticism from both sides of the political divide as well as security analysts. Mr Macron decided to deploy soldiers of the Sentinelle unit to relieve the police of some of their guard […]
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ADDED 05/06/2018
FROM 05/06/2018 | The Arab Weekly
BY Oussama Romdhani
Jihadist terrorism, in particular, can lower citizens’ expectations in Western democracies and make all kinds of concessions palatable. While hopeful voters headed to the ballot boxes in a number of Arab countries, politicians and pundits around the world, especially in the West, voiced concern that liberal democratic ideals are under assault. Alluding to the growing […]
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ADDED 04/24/2018
FROM 04/24/2018 | InfoMigrants
BY ANSA
There were tensions on the French-Italian border at the weekend, after anti-fascist groups responded on Sunday to a “wall” along the border that had been created by the far-right group, “Generation Identitaire,” on Saturday. Tense moments were experienced with the French gendarme at one point but violent incidents were avoided. Activists from the small far-right […]
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ADDED 04/12/2018
FROM 04/12/2018 | Independent
BY May Bulman
Hundreds of people are set to rally against a “new breed” of white supremacism in London this weekend as racist group Generation Identity (GI) prepares to hold its first official conference on British soil. The “Identitarian” movement, which propagates the far-right conspiracy theory that white people are becoming a minority, is hosting what it has branded […]
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ADDED 04/08/2018
FROM | Socialist Project
BY Dick Nichols
France is once again on the brink of an all-out industrial war – and its outcome could transform the country’s political landscape. The showdown is over the plans that President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe have for the state-owned National Railway Company (SNCF), which have been described by Le Monde as “the biggest change […]
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