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We are at the brink

Building the democracy front

After the New Popular Front won July’s French elections, it nominated Lucie Castets for prime minister. Emmanuel Macron ignored the result. Castets told Jacobin how the left-wing coalition can build on its progress and stop the lurch to the right.

Elections elsewhere

In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval

Is the European left taking a dive on immigrants’ rights?

Lots of young people are challenging and questioning the very nature of democracy, the nature of the system which exists, where one court after the other has said this genocide must stop, yet U.S. pressure allows Netanyahu to continue.

News and analyses from movements and parties around the world

The protests were called by the center-left coalition New Popular Front (NFP) in more than 150 cities across France.

Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.