Jean-Luc Mélenchon est intervenu à l’occasion d’un entretien sur LCI, le 18 octobre 2026.
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Under fire over protests, Mélenchon stands by split with rest of French political spectrum
Throughout the weekend, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his radical-left party, La France Insoumise, criticized the French government‘s crisis management of the protests on Saturday, October 17, and the violence surrounding them. As peaceful demonstrations where LFI supporters again turned out in strength overlapped with violence and looting, LFI continued its strategy of direct confrontation with the authorities, even at the risk of deepening its rift with the rest of the political class and some voters who hold them responsible for the unrest.
Tout pouvoir redoute les révoltes de la jeunesse. – Interview pour Centre Presse
(October 9, 2026)
Je n’imagine pas cette campagne présidentielle comme le simple énoncé d’un programme, mais surtout comme un choix des principes de vie en société. Cette méthode nous a déjà permis d’acquérir une capacité de rassemblement qui surprend les commentateurs. Dans les analyses fournies à propos de notre succès, on parle de qui nous sommes, comment nous agissons, comment nous faisons campagne, nos capacités techniques à faire campagne… Beaucoup voient bien que nous sommes toute une équipe, au contraire de tous nos concurrents. Mais ce n’est pas ça la leçon essentielle de nos succès. Elle est ailleurs, dans la réponse à la question : dans quel état d’esprit est le peuple français. Que se passe-t-il dans la société dont nous sommes l’écho ? Aussi bien quand des jeunes acclament les députés Insoumis qui viennent les voir dans leur faculté ou leur lycée, ce qui est sans précédent.
France‘s fed-up youth: Can presidential candidates connect with student movement?
Only one party has sided vocally with the students since the very start: Jean-Luc Mélenchon‘s far-left France Unbowed.
We ask whether that will consolidate his second place in the polls ahead of next spring‘s presidential elections. That would qualify Mélenchon for the May 2 run-off against the far right‘s Marine Le Pen.
‚Finish what we started‘: After student protests, France braces for return of the Yellow Vests
A map published on Thursday on the website 17octobregiletjaune.net listed more than 1,000 events planned around the country to denounce rising fuel prices and support high-school students who have been protesting for nearly a month to demand better classroom conditions.
Protesttag in Frankreich: geplant:Warum die Franzosen die „Schnauze voll“ haben
Hohe Lebenshaltungskosten, geringe Gehälter, Missstände an Schulen: In Frankreich haben landesweit Massenproteste begonnen. Zehntausende Demonstranten werden erwartet.
La Bastille est reprise. Démonstration puissante de la jeunesse qui porte ses revendications de la plus belle façon qui soit ! Fierté immense. Rendez-vous mardi 13 octobre à l‘appel des syndicats de jeunes et des salariés.
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Mélenchon declares ‘Bastille retaken’ after major student rally in Paris
The storming of the Bastille in 1789 marked a major turning point in the French Revolution and became a symbol of the people’s resistance to royal authority.
The leader of France Unbowed and his allies have been accused by their opponents of stoking unrest and manipulating young people for political gain. Mélenchon has rejected these criticisms, underlining that despite the fact that his party supports the protests, they were independently launched by students.
The student and professional union coalition has called for another day of protests and strikes on 13 October, with a further major mobilisation planned for 17 October.
From France to Italy, Belgium to Greece, student protests spread across Europe
The unrest is not being organised as a single Europe-wide movement. The grievances are different from country to country, but the concerns are strikingly similar. Students are increasingly questioning whether governments are putting enough money into education at a time when schools and universities are struggling with staff shortages, infrastructure problems and higher costs.
France’s student protests highlight a debt crisis that could spill over to the rest of Europe
Worries about a potential debt crisis in France boiled over last week, leading to a selloff in French bonds and a sharp rise in yields.
The spread between French and German bond yields expanded to its widest level since 2012. That difference in yields means investors are demanding much higher returns to hold debt from France compared with Germany, which is deemed a safer alternative.
The French bond rout has sparked fears of spillovers to other high-yield European debt markets, with some analysts drawing parallels with the eurozone debt crisis of the early 2010s.
Live: Thousands of students march across France as clashes reported in Lyon and Strasbourg
Yesterday‘s key developments:
• More than 5,000 people have been detained since student protests erupted in France last month, 87 percent of whom are minors, the French justice ministry said.
• At least 589 schools throughout France have been disrupted, and more than 215 students have been injured as protests against underfunding and overcrowding continue.
• A 15-year-old student protesting in the northern French town of Lens had his hand blown off after he picked up a police grenade.
UNBEZWINGBAR: VERANSTALTENDE ORGANISATIONEN
VERANSTALTENDE ORGANISATIONEN
Attac Deutschland • Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft – Vereinigte Kriegsdienstgegner*innen (DFG-VK) • Deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Ärzt*innen für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges / Ärzt*innen in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW) • DIDF Jugend • Internationaler Jugendverband (IJV) • medico international • NaturFreunde Deutschlands • Netzwerk Friedenskooperative • Ohne Rüstung Leben • Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht
Mehr als 20.000 Teilnehmende bei Unzwingbar-Kundgebung vor dem Brandenburger-Tor
03.10.2026
Die Konzertkundgebung „Unzwingbar – Kein Bock auf Krieg und Wehrpflicht“ am 2. Oktober 2026 in Berlin hat ein starkes Zeichen für Zusammenhalt, gegen Aufrüstung und gegen die Wehrpflicht gesetzt.
Mehr als 20.000 zumeist junge Menschen haben vor dem Brandenburger Tor in den Abend hinein zu Musik von K.I.Z, Disarstar, Dritte Wahl, Goldie 333 und Mieze getanzt und protestiert. Bis nach 21 Uhr wurde der Platz vor dem Brandenburger Tor immer noch voller.
Viele Teilnehmende trugen Schilder, auf denen sie unter anderem eine Stärkung von Bildung, Gesundheit und Sozialstaat statt blinder Aufrüstung forderten. Die Redebeiträge, die die Militarisierung in vielen Bereichen der Gesellschaft kritisierten, eine lebenswerte Zukunft für junge Menschen einforderten und eindringliche Zeugnisse von Verweigerung des Militärdienstes ablegten, wurden mit Begeisterung aufgenommen.
Hold Your Nose And Vote
DeSantis is telling Republicans who are frustrated with their party’s candidates to vote for them anyway lest the DSA take the country “back to before the time of the American Revolution.”
Referring to GOP candidates as less-than-perfect, the governor insisted that the alternative is worse. State Rep. Angie Nixon, a DSA member, secured a major upset victory in August to become the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in November.
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Fox News writer Amanda Macias announced that Democratic Socialists of America are “seeking to reshape some of the most basic features of the U.S. economy.” She then proceeded to lay out DSA’s core platform: universal healthcare, free public universities, student debt cancellation, a 32-hour workweek, and collecting higher taxes from the wealthy.
Macias’s framing of the benefits of socialism reads like the wish list of anyone who is horrified by rising healthcare costs while buried in student debt and working insane hours to keep their head above water. In the end, she asked the same tired question posed by so many critics: who’s going to pay for it all?
A new fleet of F-35s never draws that question.
India’s Cockroach Protests End as Modi Government Bows to Demands
Hundreds of thousands of these cockroach protesters had been assembling for over a month at Jantar Mantar, which is less than half a mile south of Connaught Place, the central market in the heart of Delhi. They were demanding the resignation of Pradhan, who is also a senior leader in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the party of Modi. The protesters at Jantar Mantar consider Pradhan to be responsible for failing to prevent “paper leaks”—the unauthorized release of highly competitive national college entrance examinations, often hours and sometimes minutes before the exam is due.
The Jantar Mantar movement emerged in May in response to a leak of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the countrywide medical entrance exam. Reports suggest at least a dozen students across the country died by suicide after the tests were canceled.
‚Long way to go‘: What next for CJP leaders after Jantar Mantar protest
CJP leader Dipke said ending the protest did not mean the movement had ended. „This is just the beginning. The Cockroach Janata Party has a long way to go,“ he write on X.
He also demanded compensation for the families of students who died by suicide amid the examination controversy.
„Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned. But the families of the children who committed suicide should receive compensation of one crore rupees. They should get it. One crore rupees compensation to all those families,“ Dipke said.
85 female elementary students killed in US-Israeli strike on Iran
(February 28, 2026 – 13:55)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a severe statement mourning the “heartbreaking tragedy” at the Shajareh Tayyebah elementary school. Describing the bombing of the facility while it was “full of innocent pupils” as a “savage act,” the president vowed it would become an indelible part of the aggressors’ history of crimes against Iran. The statement strongly condemned the “inhumane act” and called for immediate, prioritized medical attention for the wounded.
Aftermath of Iran girls‘ school hit by strike amid Israel and US attacks on Iran, killing dozens
At least least 40 people were killed in a strike on an Iranian girls‘ school in the southern region of the country. State media reported another strike in Northwest Iran.
Columbia Student Is Released From ICE After Mamdani-Trump Meeting
It was the clearest sign yet that Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has vocally opposed Mr. Trump on immigration enforcement matters, holds enough sway with the president to bend a highly charged situation through personal relationship and persuasion.
Elmina Aghayeva, GS ’26, released from ICE custody, after Mamdani, Trump talks
Aghayeva’s release comes after Mamdani shared his concerns about her arrest with Trump, after which the president informed him “that she will be released imminently,” Mamdani wrote in a Thursday afternoon X post. Mamdani’s advocacy came during an unannounced meeting about housing with Trump at the White House.
Columbia celebrated the news in a Thursday X post, writing that it was “thrilled” about Aghayeva’s release. The University added that it would have “additional details” to share Thursday evening.
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A DHS official wrote in a Thursday statement to Spectator that the DHS terminated Aghayeva’s student visa in 2016 during the administration of President Barack Obama, CC ’83, for “failing to attend classes.”
ICE arrests Columbia student, Shipman says agents lied to enter University-owned residence
(February 26, 2026)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, GS ’26, in a Columbia Residential building Thursday morning, after acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced that agents had lied in order to enter a residential building and detain an affiliate.
A person with knowledge of the situation told Spectator that ICE agents impersonated New York Police Department officers in order to enter Aghayeva’s dorm.
Aghayeva’s arrest marks the fourth of a Columbia affiliate amid the federal government’s immigration crackdown, which has continued to target international students at the University.
Incredible scene at Brown University as thousands of schools across the country stage walkouts to protest ICE’s reign of terror.
History will remember who stood up and who stayed silent against state sanctioned murder.
Im inneren Kreis
(April 1, 2024)
Und auch im idyllischen Heidelberg hat sich der Polizist Simon B. 2010 eigens an der Universität immatrikuliert, um linke Studierende auszuspähen, die nicht im Traum damit gerechnet hätten, einmal ins Fadenkreuz staatlicher Überwachung zu geraten.
Eindrucksvoll erzählen die Protagonisten aus ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven ihre Geschichten.
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
More Shocking Footage Shows Federal Agents Raiding Minneapolis High School, Handcuffing Staff
The school official also told MPR News that the agents handcuffed two staff members at the school, and they described getting into a physical confrontation with an agent as they were trying to tell them to leave school property.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” the official said. “They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
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The reasons for the raid on the high school were unclear, and the US Department of Homeland Security did not respond to KSTP Eyewitness 5 News’ or MPR News’ requests for comment.
2 Million People Paralyze Italy in a General Strike for Gaza and the Flotilla
Italian dockworkers and the Union of Base Trade Unions (USB) vowed that they would respond with strikes and class struggle in the event of an attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and they delivered. On October 3, Italy exploded in a day of “wildcat” strike actions across many sectors.
Despite intimidation from the authorities, who declared the strike illegal and deployed heavy repressive operations, the USB and the dockworkers managed to get Italian workers across sectors to stop and take to the streets, forcing the bureaucracy of the main labor union (CGIL) to call for a strike and demonstrations. Following the important day of struggle on September 22, over two million workers demonstrated and walked off the streets on Friday, especially in the metalworking, logistics, and education sectors.