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      Trade union leaders march in Paris on April 6, 2023 to protest French President Emmanuel Macron's attack on the country's pension system.

      'Either Trade Unions Win This, or It Will Be the Far Right': Labor Sees High Stakes in French Pension Fight

      A new poll shows that Marine Le Pen would beat French President Emmanuel Macron in a head-to-head rematch, making the left's struggle against Macron's pension attack a struggle for democracy in France.

      Kenny Stancil
      Apr 07, 2023

      As French workers intensify their fight against President Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular plan to raise the nation's retirement age from 62 to 64, the stakes couldn't be higher.

      A poll released Wednesday shows that reactionary lawmaker Marine Le Pen—leader of the far-right National Rally party, the largest opposition force in Parliament—would beat Macron by a margin of 55% to 45% in a head-to-head rematch. The neoliberal incumbent defeated Le Pen in a runoff election last April, but the openly xenophobic and Islamophobic challenger has gained significant ground since their first matchup in 2017.

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      Protesters participate in a demonstration against the French government's plan to raise the retirement age in front of the National Assembly in Paris, on March 16, 2023.

      Enraging Workers, Macron Bypasses Parliament With 'Nuclear Option' on Retirement Age Hike

      "What the government is doing makes people sick of politics. It should improve people's lives, not destroy them," said Rachel Keke, a leftist in France's National Assembly.

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 16, 2023

      Amid protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to overhaul the country's pension system, his government on Thursday chose the "nuclear option," opting to use a constitutional procedure to force through reforms, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, without a vote in the lower house of Parliament.

      While the proposal passed the Senate, the upper chamber of Parliament, 193-114 Thursday morning, "reports indicated that the ruling party, which lost its overall majority in elections last year, was a handful of votes short" in the National Assembly, which led to an emergency Council of Ministers meeting about triggering Article 49.3, Le Mondeexplained.

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      Marjorie Taylor Greene

      Progressives Have But One Option on Election Day: Vote to Defeat the Neofascist GOP

      Claiming that there are no significant differences between the two parties is a form of super-ideological gaslighting on automatic pilot.

      Norman Solomon
      Oct 25, 2022

      Six months ago, people on the left in France faced a crucial choice. None of their candidates had gotten enough votes to make it into the presidential runoff election. On the upcoming ballot were the neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron and the neofascist challenger Marine Le Pen, who had trailed the incumbent in the first round by less than five percentage points. What to do?

      Rather than sit out the decisive election and enable the far-right candidate to take power, millions of leftist voters held their nose and voted for Macron.

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