Arguing that energy costs will rise 15 percent, Macron called for military spending increases while refusing to index wages to inflation and promising to raise the retirement age.
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Lantier is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in France.
Despite newly-re-elected President Macron’s empty promises to use a “new method,” a bitter confrontation is being prepared between Macron and the working class.
Mélenchon's return to talks with a discredited, reactionary party shows that he aims not to mobilize his 7.7 million voters, but to push them to the right.