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FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - 2nd round - 7 May 2017 - Declaration of the French Communist Party
This evening, the candidate from the National Front was roundly defeated. What a relief! 65 % of French voters refused to elect a head of state who promotes ideas of hatred and division, a project that is racist and xenophobic, and public policy that is violently discriminatory, economically liberal, and belligerent. As Communists, we are proud to have worked with resolve to defeat the far right, for we know that the National Front project ...
Le : 09/05/2017 -
Legislative elections: Declaration of the French Communist Party
The French people will be able to count on 11 communist members of parliament (in parenthesis, the number of the département they represent): Jean-Paul Dufrègne (03), Pierre Dharréville (13), André Chassaigne (63), Fabien Roussel (59) et Alain Bruneel (59), Jean-Paul Lecoq (76), Sébastien Jumel (76) et Hubert Wulfranc (76), Elsa Faucillon (92), Marie-George Buffet (93), Stéphane Peu (93), and on the other members of parliament who will join ...
Le : 22/06/2017 -
Syria: “Trump fuels military escalation”
The US military strike launched on Syria on 6 April, in defiance of international law and following a sudden volte-face by US president Donald Trump, may open a new, drastic internationalisation of the Syrian conflict. By his actions, Trump fuels military escalation and retaliation while the people of Syria desperately need the war to stop immediately. The United States’ military action will encourage political support ...
Le : 08/04/2017 -
Legislative elections: second round / French Communist Party declaration
The second round of legislative elections next Sunday, 18 June, has taken on special significance following the political upheavals of the first round. It is urgent that we mobilise against the candidates supported by Emmanuel Macron and the Républicains, who are seeking to achieve an overwhelming majority to advance their policies of economic liberalism, and the National Front, who continue to push their ideas of hatred, racism and ...
Le : 19/06/2017 -
Summary of the report to the National Council, 3 March 2017, by Pierre Laurent
The objective of the National Council: To work together to come to an understanding of the situation and its contradictions, to decide on new initiatives to undertake, to adjust the direction of our campaign in the weeks leading up to the first round of the presidential elections, and to plan for the legislative elections that will follow. A difficult context. Millions of French citizens are wracked with anxiety on a daily basis and when ...
Le : 15/03/2017 -
France must commit to a world without nuclear weapons
On 27 March 2017, negotiations for the prohibition of nuclear weapons will open in New York; these follow the adoption of Resolution L41 by the United Nations on 23 December, seeking to establish a new treaty on a nuclear arms ban. Although France has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Article 6 of which states that each party “shall pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the ...
Le : 27/03/2017 -
Declaration of the French Communist Party - Presidential election – 1st round 23 April 2017
The second round of the French presidential election will be a contest between the racist and xenophobic candidate of the far right, Marine Le Pen, and Emmanuel Macron, the candidate selected by the financial world to reinforce the liberal policies afflicting our country for the past 40 years. This situation is extremely grave for our country. The far-right reached the second round and the left has been eliminated. However, for the first ...
Le : 24/04/2017 -
National executive committee – Declaration of 30 January 2017
Just 83 days from the first round of the presidential elections, the outcome is far from evident. A second round nightmare facing off François Fillon and Marine le Pen, which the media have been predicting for months, is no longer a foregone conclusion. Another story remains to be written. The women and men of France have a voice in this matter, and they are speaking out, refusing to simply accept to the scenarios on offer, refusing to ...
Le : 03/02/2017 -
Change will come through a pact for a new majority of the left
The French Communist Party Appeals to the People of France *** Millions among you are ready to the turn the page on a political system that has been reduced to impotence and eroded by the powers of finance. Millions among you are angry at policies that are hard on the weakest and easy on the most powerful; angry at discrimination of all kinds; angry at a financial system that destroys everything in our country, from employment to the most ...
Le : 22/02/2017 -
37th Congress of the French Communist Party - Closing address by Pierre Laurent, National Secretary
Dear Friends, dear comrades, I am so proud! So proud, my friends... As we conclude the work of our 37th Congress, I take the floor with the conviction that we have accomplished very much here. The face of the French Communist Party has shone out over these four days of debate. Far from media caricatures, we are the face of an incredibly modern, combative communism. Our debates have gone forward in an atmosphere of calm ...
Le : 22/06/2016