
Twin Upsurges - Unionizing and Left Politics
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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Is There Any Alternative?
In the election for the national assembly to parliament in france a few weeks ago, the sitting president, mister macron, and his political party got about 38 % of the vote. They now have to govern with barely a third of the votes in their parliament to get their legislation passed if they can. The big upset was when the unified left, communists, socialists, greens, independent left is got together one political party ran for office on a unified programme,. Just a little behind mister maron, the president. And just so all of you know, where did the right wing, the sort of trump equivalent in france, come in? Marine lepin. She got 17 %
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