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Blue-collar voters in northern France are often seen as a natural base for Marine Le Pen’s surging far right. Yet while her party has made major inroads in this electorate, local elections saw Communists resist what seemed like inevitable defeat.

Resistance works

The world economy is going through some stuff

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.

In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval

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

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.

Open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component parties.

Mass protests break out in Indonesia