Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

French Youth Rise Up Against Racism, Austerity, and the Rising Right Wing
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
09 Oct 2026
🖨️ Print Article

Students in France are engaging in mass protests. Hundreds of them have been arrested and injured by police, and many schools are closed. Annick Metefia joins us from Paris. She is a member of the Afrofeminist Mwasi Collectif and provides insights on French politics and the struggles of African-descended and other immigrant communities under an austerity regime and the rise of the racist right wing in a Black Agenda Report YouTube interview.
 

France
protests
student protests
Right wing
immigrants
Austerity

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026
09 October 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss student protests by Black and brown youth in France against austerity measures and race-based inequality in the
Martinique protest
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Martinique's History of Resistance
25 October 2024
The Caribbean island Martinique, is an overseas department of France, but its people are in protest against the government in Paris.
French parliament
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The French Right are on the Rise and the Left are in Disarray
05 July 2024
Philippe Gendrault, Ph.D. is a mental health provider committed to the anti-racist, anti-imperialist struggle for social and political justice.

More Stories


  • Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    That Sunday morning Mom cried …
    20 May 2026
    "That Sunday morning Mom cried …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
  • Tamanisha J. John
    Annexationist Chauvinism: There is No Justification for the Venezuela-Guyana Essequibo Border Dispute
    20 May 2026
    The Essequibo dispute benefits Exxon Mobil and the Pentagon while crushing anti-imperialist solidarity.
  • Roger Harris , Sara Flounders
    Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State
    20 May 2026
    The same week Cuba mobilized millions to defend its revolution, the White House imposed even more illegal measures in an effort to strangle the country into submission.
  • Nicholas Mwangi
    Police tear gas and arrest protesters at France-Africa counter summit in Nairobi
    20 May 2026
    Organizers, activists, intellectuals, and international delegates were arrested in Nairobi during an anti-imperialist protest against the France–Africa Summit, which critics have described as an…
  • Gary Wilson
    From Louisiana to Havana: Law as a weapon against Black power and liberation
    20 May 2026
    The same legal machinery that once protected Jim Crow segregation has found a new way to strip Black voters of political power without touching the right to cast a ballot.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us