French imperialism’s support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza goes hand in hand with a campaign to legitimize fascistic and colonialist oppression at home.
Despite being presented as the representative of the “extreme left” by the bourgeois press, Mélenchon made clear in remarks following last month’s police crackdown that he is an experienced capitalist politician who works to suppress the working class’ struggle against the capitalist state.
Québec Solidaire's indifferent and hostile attitude to the revolt of the French working class shows that workers in Quebec will not find in it an ally in their own struggles, but a political enemy who will seek to dupe them with "leftist" phrases while subordinating them to the pro-capitalist union bureaucracy.
Mélenchon's Unsubmissive France party is complicit in the union bureaucracies' attempt to demobilize the struggle against Macron's pension cuts and against the escalating NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
The Constitutional Council approved a law opposed by an overwhelming majority of the French people and which Macron rammed through without even a vote in parliament.