Labour has reacted with scorn to the news that Zarah Sultana has resigned from the party to create a new movement with Jeremy ...

The policies put forth by Mélenchon will likely be costly for business: a lowering of the retirement age (Macron raised it ...

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 ...

One year since the New Popular Front won a surprise election victory, France’s left looks more divided than ever. This ...

French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who may yet challenge for a place in the April election's crucial runoff, on Sunday promised to lower the age of retirement, hike the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...