No Right Turn

Last year, New Caledonia burned after colonial France attempted to renege on a hard-won decolonisation deal and unilaterally impose consti...

How does France deal with opponents of its colonisation of the Pacific? Arrest them and deport them to France to face prosecution in a forei...

The internet is how people communicate now, and social media has become a natural platform for sharing dissent and organising protests. As a...

The Guardian reports that France is going to require all large car-parks to be covered by solar panels : All large car parks in France wil...

There were two elections over the weekend. In France, neo-liberal Emmanuel Macron managed to defeat neo-fascist Marine Le Pen , which should...

This weekend, France will be holding an independence referendum in New Caledonia . Normally this would be something to celebrate, part of th...

Across the world climate change activists have been going to court, seeking to make their governments act to protect future generations. And...

Last week Australia announced a new security deal with the UK and US which would see it abandon its plans to buy conventional submarines fro...

A few years ago, people launched a series of high-profile court cases against governments over their inaction on climate change. Another one...

For the past month France has been brought to a standstill, as members of the yellow vest movement have protested against inequality, the c...

Voters in New Caledonia went to the polls yesterday in an independence referendum , and voted 56-44 to remain a colony of France . Which is ...

Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change. A significant chunk of those fossil fuels are burned in cars, so if we want to beat cl...

An apology from Francois Hollande won't absolve France of its responsibility for Arab Harkis

To understand the Islamist beheading of a French priest, we must remember what happened 20 years earlier

Turkey's coup may have failed – but history shows it won’t be long before another one succeeds Hollande's promise to respond milita...

France’s unresolved Algerian war sheds light on the Paris attack

Over the weekend we were all horrified by the terrorist attacks in Paris . 132 people are dead (so far), over 350 injured. ISIS has already ...

First the NSA was caught spying on Germany. This time, its France : The French president, François Hollande, has called an emergency meetin...

The latest NSALeaks. First, the NSA spied on France , tapping and recording tens of millions of phone calls a month: According to the docum...

So, the French have a digital panopticon too : France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast s...