E258 - Populaire Frontin' 2: Melon Pilled w/ Henry Wallis
Added 2024-08-05 10:00:11 +0000 UTCOur France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block?
First episode with Henry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e253-populaire-w-106800367
Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his post-election essay.
International Communist Tendency: Popular Front in France: A Deception in 1936, A Deception in 2024
Lundi Matin - Poplar Front in the Streets (by Georges Bataille):
Bordiga on activism: https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordiga
Song: Zouzou - Il est parti comme il était venu
Comments
This guy is one of your best guests, insightful, optimistic and involved. Even if I don’t agree with all of his points it’s refreshing
Cole
2024-08-11 23:02:44 +0000 UTClove when y’all interview people we might not necessarily agree with, but I do wish he would let andy finish a question lol
Daniel E
2024-08-07 17:32:39 +0000 UTCThe labor movement teaching other groups in struggle and organizing is basically the turn the RosaLux Foundation has taken with Organizing for Power. I hope that it is an effort that bears fruit.
Trey
2024-08-06 13:56:55 +0000 UTCThere's something here, but regardless of Frances Unbowed's radicalism and theory, it does just feel like a new electoral coaliton...with so much hingeing on the likes of the french socialist party. I found his responses to Andy's question re direct action evasive, although I enjoyed him a great deal and it was generally a pretty robust insight. Id also push back on the idea of strategy being one and the same as theory. Though, it is innovative in some respects and is exactly how we should be thinking. It feels like it has parallels to MAS, rather than any contemporary western political formation.
Jim
2024-08-06 06:47:12 +0000 UTCMerci Henry for this excellent breakdown of the situation in France for a foreign audience!
Yves Chan-You
2024-08-06 04:45:26 +0000 UTCSome pretty fantastical thinking going on here about the NFP… it’s an electoral alliance of the centre and the centre-left. They can talk about ‘rupture’ all they like, it’s got nothing to do with working class self organisation or communism.
Matt Crossin
2024-08-06 04:10:17 +0000 UTClet’s goooo!!!!!!
Saadcringe
2024-08-05 11:43:03 +0000 UTC
