The Collaborators
Frédéric Lordon on the French media's reaction to the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, why we fail to learn from history and more.
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A Shit Sandwich
Frédéric Lordon makes the case for voting for France's "New Popular Front" – formed by La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Greens, the Communist Party and some smaller formations – in Saturday's snap first election round. -
Totalitarian catalysis
The West is burying its head in the sand as Israel decimates Palestinians in Gaza with impunity. Frédéric Lordon writes that in the face of Israel's genocidal campaign, the pro-Palestinian Left is right to resist the demand that they denounce 'terrorism'. -
'Legitimacy' Cretinism
In France today, elections are treated as the primary source of democratic legitimacy. But, Frédéric Lordon argues, this electoral deference fetishizes legal procedure at the expense of political action, thus eroding democratic politics.
