Protesters hold a banner that reads “Against the far-right: Popular Front” in Toulouse, France, on June 15, 2024. Credit – Alain Pitton—NurPhoto/Getty Images When French voters delivered Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party an overwhelming victory in this month’s European Parliament elections, President Emmanuel Macron took a risky and unexpected gamble. He called a […]
STORY: :: France’s left-wing alliance leaders join thousands in Paris protesting against the far-right National Rally (RN) :: June 15, 2024 :: Ilan Gabet :: Scuffles broke out between French police and demonstrators :: Ian Brossat, French Communist Party leader “We are here, we are here because we will never entertain the idea that these […]
A Democratic group contends that a new left-wing political party seeking recognition in North Carolina is a front intended to harm Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, and it’s asking the State Board of Elections to investigate. Clear Choice Action, a group targeting third-party presidential campaigns, accused the Justice For All Party, which hopes to place Cornel […]
(Bloomberg) — French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned that victory by a new left-wing alliance in the upcoming snap vote would lead to the country’s exit from the European Union as he put fears over the economy at the center of the campaign. Most Read from Bloomberg The program of the Popular Front, which […]
(Bloomberg) — Each day, Bloomberg journalists take you across a selection of towns and cities as they gear up for the big vote. Most Read from Bloomberg Hello, this is Chiranjivi Chakraborty, Asia Equities Reporter in Mumbai. My birthplace is Ambikapur in Sarguja district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. About 1,100 km south-east […]
Spain’s northern Basque Country votes Sunday in a regional election that polls suggest will be won by the left-wing separatist Bildu, seen as the heir of the political wing of the defunct armed separatist group ETA. The outcome could leave Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s ruling Socialist Worker’s party in the difficult position of having to […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside a cinema in Brooklyn. They demanded that she call Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza a “genocide.” One of the most prominent leftists in the Capitol, AOC has been critical of Israel for many years. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had just left the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn with […]
A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said. Prosecutors in the northern town of Verden confirmed the arrest of Daniela Klette, 65. The Bild daily, which cited unidentified security sources, reported that she was arrested in Berlin on […]
Liz Truss has hit out at Rishi Sunak’s government for failing to take on “left-wing extremists” she said had gained control of UK institutions, as she argued the new Popular Conservatism movement must galvanise Britain’s many “secret” Conservatives. The former British prime minister warned there was a “damaging divide” between politicians and ordinary people who […]