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  • Marie-George Buffet Blows the Whistle
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Pierre-Henri Lab, Special correspondent, Besançon (Doubs) ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE : M.-G. Buffet tire le signal d’alarme
    Marie-George Buffet, now officially candidate in the French presidential election only two months away, appeals urgently for unity of the political Left against the political Right.
    During her electoral meeting in the province of Franche-Comté in south-eastern France, Marie-George Buffet called on the political Left to “act responsibly, since the victory against the (…)

  • France : Sex and lies on the cyberspace hustings
    3 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    If you want gossip on the love life of Ségolène Royal or a compromising video of Nicolas Sarkozy do not bother looking at the French newspapers or television, just switch on the computer.
    Tales of the supposed dalliances and skulduggery of the presidential candidates are flooding the internet as the parties, supporters, bloggers, trouble-makers and comedians pile in before the April presidential election.
    Distrust of France’s compliant media and a love affair with weblogs and video clips (…)

  • Chirac Slams Iraq War as Boost to Terrorism
    6 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, January 5, 2007 by the Agence France Presse
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0105-01.htm NO AFP on BELLACIAO PLZ !

  • Reuters Pictures of the Year 2006 - Political World
    15 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A student is detained by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2006. In the largest student movement in the past 30 years in Chile, hundreds of thousands of students from around the country are pressuring the government to cede to their list of demands whose main points are free passes to public transportation, free college entrance exams, more teachers and improved secondary school buildings. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero
    PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A (…)

  • Letter open of the Collective Dom to Mr. Jacques Chirac, president of the Republic
    9 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    le 8 décembre 2006
    With Mr Jacques Chirac,
    President of the Republic,
    Large Master of the national Order of the Legion of Honor
    Mr. President of the Republic,
    France, definitely, seems to have lost some reference marks and there would be, in our opinion, urgency which you recall to our compatriots fundamental principles of the Republic.
    An organizer of television, Mr. Pascal Sevran, being believed obviously above our laws, has just affirmed publicly and cynically not only its (…)

  • France - Banlieues: inquiry on the dead of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Bucket
    9 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Banlieues The “lightness” of the flics
    a.m.m. “The Igs, the “police of the police”, accusation the policemen of Clichy-sous-Bois to have had a behavior “of a lightness and 27 an amazing distraction” October 2005, when they had chased three young people that were themselves shelters in one telephone exchange to you electrical worker: two of they are deceaseds, the third party has been seriously ustionato and this episode has been the fuse that it has made to explode for several weeks the (…)

  • France: website editor faces prosecution for posting union press release
    1 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Reporters Without Borders today condemned a judge’s decision to open a judicial investigation against Roberto Ferrario, the editor of the left-wing website Bellaciao ( http://bellaciao.org ), in response to a libel suit by the Saint Nazaire-based shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, over a critical press release by the USM-CGT union that was posted on the site.
    “Ferrario was not the author of the statement which Chantiers de l’Atlantique considered libellous,” the press freedom (…)

  • FREE SPEECH IS OUR HUMAN RIGHT
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To support Bellaciao sign here
    by Matt Norman Victoria, Australia
    Dear Roberto,
    I have read with much disgust the plight who have yourself in, with regard to comments made by you or your webpage relating to “Shipyards of St Nazaire”
    I would like you to keep me fully informed of what your government or judicial system does to you about this matter. I will bring the full force of public opinion onto the French Government and Justice system if you are not able to speak your mind and (…)

  • Marie-George Buffet: "We should declare war on the Right"
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At the close of work at the National Conference, Marie-George Buffet notably had to say:
    "We measure the unparalleled stakes in the 2007 elections, for the future of our country: either to slide into bi-partism, with its hopeless succession of alternances, or instead to give rise to a popular alternative to neo-liberal politics. This must be our objective: to construct on the Left a popular and political majority, around a project capable of changing our life. This ambition, I sum up in (…)

  • A Candidature to Succeed - The Communists United and Determined
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PCF: Marie-George Buffet is proposed as anti-liberal [1] candidate in the presidential election. The delegates to the party’s National Conference approve by 80% the strategy for 2007. The objective: to construct a vast assembly of all anti-liberal forces. This decision will be submitted to a vote by all party members in November.
    2007: The National Conference of the French Communist Party (PCF), this weekend, proposed by a majority of more than 80% the candidature of Marie-George Buffet to (…)