What’s Next for the New Popular Front?
The rapid fall of Michel Barnier’s government will test the unity of the French left.
Spring 2025
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The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
The French Left’s Delicate Unity
Voters understand that a left unity pact provides the only path to victory on the national level.
“It’s Our Duty to Talk About All Struggles”
An interview with Collectif Golem, a left-wing Jewish group in France fighting antisemitism and the far right.
The Damaged Soul of The Mother and the Whore
Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
The Killer Inside Me
Both merciless and humane, Happening presents abortion in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir in the Manifesto of the 343—as something necessary to allow women the ability to realize their full potential as citizens.
Emmanuel Macron’s Precarious Hold on France
Ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president.
After the Coal Rush
In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right.
The COVID Conspiracies
A wildly popular documentary shows the depth of coronavirus denialism in France—and its relationship to right-wing movements worldwide.
Political Spring in Marseille
If the green left is to keep gaining European hearts and minds, its experience governing in cities like Marseille will merit close attention.
Europe: Will This Crisis Be Different?
As the 2008 financial crisis made clear, without major change at the European level, social democratic responses to the coronavirus crisis will be out of reach for many countries across the continent.
Socialism in One Factory 
We stand together on one side of a great river, which we all must cross. The workers at the French watch factory Lip swam ahead, and lit a beacon for us all.
France’s Anti-Liberal Left
In the ideas of Jean-Claude Michéa, we can see what a left populism fully divorced from liberalism might look like.
An Interview with Jean-Claude Michéa
A conversation with the French writer and intellectual profiled in our spring issue.
