With 1.6 million people on the streets yesterday, the French government has proposed a ‘social conference’ on wages. This obvious distraction tactic offers crumbs to the working class at a time when they have the bosses and the political establishment on the back foot.

A section of the movement correctly realises that the electoral defeat of the SNS does not mean that the regime has been uprooted.

All forces within the trade union movement, supported by all forces of the radical left, must be mobilised.

Sparked by various questions, a confluence of factors is now running into a single stream: the cost of living, house prices, militarism, Palestine, the environment, austerity, housing, education, racist scapegoating, hatred of the right and fascism.

Whenever the oppressed rise up, the oppressors try to silence their just demands by burying them under a cacophony of hypocritical accusations, gross exaggerations, and outright slander. But no pile of lies, no matter how heavy, can stifle the truth.

The demonstration on 17 October marks a major milestone in the development of a movement which is clearly far from having exhausted its reserves of energy, determination and fighting spirit.

Europe does show Canada’s future—but not in the way Carney hopes.

Young people will mobilise in large numbers on Saturday, and probably even in much larger numbers than 13 months ago.

European capitalism is in the process of its long-term decline.

The Gen Z revolution has firmly arrived in France.