Founded in 1970, the French Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action brings together more than 4,000 militants in France who have decided to show themselves. Everywhere and by all means. "Class struggle goes through the body."

"Having no reason for being other than desire, homosexuality is the living negation of false values, sacrosanct institutions and all roles. It is the absolute negation of the world such as it is."

"Lesbians and faggots, let's raze the walls. Let us leave the dumps and the ghettoes!"

By Stefan Christoff, The Dominion, February, 26 2008

PARIS--In the early evening outside of Belleville metro in Paris, a crowd gathers for a demonstration demanding citizenship for France's hundreds-of-thousands of non-status immigrants, locally known as sans papiers (literally "without papers"). As protest chants echo through the Parisian streets, a sound-track to a powerful contemporary social movement is edged into history. Demonstrators embody a critical current of contemporary French politics in this ancient European city.

Protests throughout France have opposed waves of deportations confronting immigrant communities. In 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced an official government target of twenty-five thousand deportations for the year, igniting a storm of state-driven immigration raids across the country.

By Sylvie Tissot, Le Monde diplomatique, February, 07 2008

Last month Le Nouvel Observateur published a series of articles about a passionate but unhappy woman, authoritarian yet submissive, intelligent yet sensual, stylish yet with a weird hair-do, a man-eater who was enthralled by one man (1). Was it Britney Spears or Carla Bruni? No, it was a philosopher, militant and committed intellectual, an incarnation of feminism for many in France and around the world: Simone de Beauvoir. For the centenary of her birth, the newspaper gave her the celebrity exposé treatment, complete with nude picture on the front page. The series said much about the conditions that govern a Frenchwoman's right to get into the enclosure of memorials to great men in the Panthéon in Paris (Marie Curie was the first woman so honoured, although not until 1995). It helps to go in on the arm of a man -- the feature keeps calling de Beauvoir Jean-Paul Sartre's girlfriend.

France: Student strikes and blockades to continue

November 19th, 2007 by jef costello, lib.com.org

Today will be an important day for the student movement with Police and university authorities ending most occupations before the weekend.

Today will be a return to struggle, or in some cases a beginning. The first blockade of Paris VIII began today at 7am. Many universities will be holding AGs this week to decide whether to continue the movement, which up until now has continued to grow.

France: Rail, gas and electricity workers prepare to strike

November 7th, 2007 by jef costello

Workers have decided to build on last month's one-day strike and have called for strike action on Wednesday.

Similarities and contrasts with the anti-CPE struggle
April 18th 2006 Posted to France CPE

The recent movement in France against the CPE have been a massive inspiration to militant workers the world over. The level of militancy, co-operation and organisation amongst the students, workers, banlieusards, unemployed, parents’ groups, high school pupils and others has been such that the French working class actually managed to force the government to reverse a law which it had passed only months before. In all the excitement, you can see why many people have found it so tempting to say, “it’s just like ‘68!”

CPE Scrapped
April 10th 2006 Posted to France CPE

Latest
We understand that the private bill replacing the CPE will give assistance to any employer hiring a young person between 16 to 25 years on a CDI contract, according to certain conditions.

The decision

Jacques Chirac has announced the replacement of the CPE with a device in favour of getting disadvantaged young people into work.

By Murray Smith

“The executive (government) is in tatters, the ministers squabble, the (parliamentary) majority is rent by divisions.” The quotation is not from one of the leaders of the mass movement against the CPE (First Employment Contract) that has shaken France over the last few weeks. It is from the editorial of the 7th April edition of the prestigious daily Le Monde. The editorialist also warned that “France is suffering from a dangerous power vacuum.” That reflects the situation today. The government has not given in by withdrawing the CPE, which would allow workers under the age of 26 to be sacked without reason during their first two years in a job. But it is reeling under the pressure of a movement that has seen universities and high schools occupied or blockaded by their students and a series of days of demonstrations and strikes backed by the unions, each of which has brought more people onto the streets than the one before.

This is a must read article! A political, critical and subjective report by a Sorbonne delegate on the National Student Coordination held in Aix-en-Provence on 25-26 March 2006.

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First, and like a symptom, the TGV (high-speed train) which links Paris to Aix in three hours. We arrive in the middle of the desert: a huge station, covered in glass, a temple to contemporary architectural ugliness in the middle of the drought. And 15 minutes of freeway to the town centre. Time and space are cancelled out, we’re in the middle of nowhere, in an impossible centre, a product of the will to erase this no-man’s-land which the centre of France presently constitutes. We’re one of the first delegations to arrive; we register with a box-ticker, and neatly draft the ‘directions motions’ which we’d been asked to bring to the coordination. They are to be quickly entered into a computer and distributed during the debates. Everyone will put their badges on soon: delegate, cafeteria-worker, organizer, S.O. Here we all are, nicely organised, nicely differentiated, so that everyone is in her place.

Everyone is stressed out. Things have to go better than they did last week in Dijon. There’s laughter though, and singing. The occupation has been running for three weeks, and it’s an honour to host the coordination. Of course, there are big welcome banners, stacks of chairs, signs pointing the way. Everyone is trying to grab some sleep in the lecture halls. Tomorrow, things kick off.

The Precarious-Euro Insurrection
By Franco "Bifo" Berardi

The fight of the French precarious cognitive workers can be the beginning of a new political and cultural cycle in Europe. They occupied the schools with the conscience of being together, students, cognitive and precarious workers in the fluid cycle of recomposing capital. And that represents a new fact, which was never expressed, with such clearness, in recent student struggles.