Melenchon, 72, has been a fixture of the French left for decades, holding ministerial posts in past governments when he was a Socialist party member. He ran for president in 2012, ...

What to know about France’s leftist alliance after shock election win. The New Popular Front wants to lower France’s retirement age and vastly expand government spending on social welfare ...

Semitism, calls for its dissolution, and now a parliamentary investigation has begun into its supposed “links” with Islamist ...

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the far-left party France Unbowed, has become his own worst political enemy. After he came surprisingly close to qualifying for France’s last ...

The head of the left-wing France Insoumise wants to break his country out of a binary contest between the neoliberal center and a rising far right. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of the left-wing ...

It didn’t take Jean-Luc Melenchon long to seize the moment after initial poll indications of the French legislative vote showed the leftist New Popular Front was headed to a shock victory.

The Mélenchon Caucus. An economist garlanded with a Nobel celebrates the accession of a fellow traveler and implacable free market foe. Hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivers his speech at his ...

Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged President Emmanuel Macron to follow the lead of the United States and Israel on the Western Sahara ...

"We need to raise awareness among the moderate left, that it will not be acceptable to be in a coalition with Mélenchon," said CRIF president Yonathan Arfi.

Jacobin and Verso are hosting an event with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at CUNY Graduate Center tonight to celebrate the launch of his new book, Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century.

EDITORIAL. The refusal of the La France Insoumise party leader to describe Hamas's attack on Israel as 'terrorist' proves that the left-wing NUPES coalition must free itself from his tutelage.

Hard-left French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been condemned as "an enemy of the Republic" by the leader of the country's largest collective of Jewish organisations after a series of remarks ...