Macron’s ominous new French government

This French video with English subtitles says about itself:

On Sunday 7th 2017, [leftist presidential candidate] Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacted to Emmanuel Macron’s victory and called on the 7 million people who voted for him to remain united in the future.

By Francis Dubois in France:

Macron names government to implement social counter-revolution in France

18 May 2017












The defence ministry has been given to Sylvie Goulard of Bayrou’s MoDem, who has close ties to the European Union after advising European Commission chief Romano Prodi between 2001 and 2004. She is charged with implementing Macron’s militarist [pro]gramme, including increasing military spending to 2 percent of GDP and reintroducing the draft.


The new labour minister, Muriel Pénicaud, is close to Macron. She was the CEO of many major public and private French enterprises. The Voix du Nord daily called her “the sales[wo]man of France to foreign investment.” She has the job of coordinating Macron’s attempts to attract foreign investment via historic attacks on wages, employment and social spending based on massive deregulation.


A comment on this article, by ‘pierre’, says:

A sign of the nature of this French imperialist government is the new minister for war, Sylvie Goulard. President Macron has renamed her ministry which was the Ministry of Defense. It is now called the Army Ministry (Ministère des Armées).

The cover of “Defense” is now considered unuseful for a French army on the offensive. Its 25 military interventions worldwide in 2015, mostly in Africa, will now be surpassed by the naked aggression of this regime’s foreign policy.

Cynically, one might say it is an improvement that a ministry waging neocolonial wars all over the world no longer hypocritically claims these wars are ‘defense’. Though it would have been even less hypocritical to call it Ministry of Wars instead of ‘Army Ministry’.

By Alex Lantier in France:

According to an extraordinary report published yesterday in LObs magazine, top members of France’s Socialist Party (PS) government prepared to launch a coup d’état if Marine Le Pen of the neo-fascist National Front (FN) won the May 7 presidential run-off.

The purpose of the coup was not to keep Le Pen from taking office. Rather, it was designed to crush left-wing protests against Le Pen’s victory, impose martial law, and install Le Pen in power in an enforced alliance with a PS-led government.

See also here.

In meeting with Putin, Macron distances France from Washington’s anti-Russia policy: here.

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