France’s New Popular Front, w/ Clément Petitjean

As finger pointing and arguing about President Joe Biden's fitness to remain the Democratic Party's presidential nominee continued all week here in the US, Great Britain and France made strides toward beating back autocratic and fascist rule in their own national elections. In this episode, Cayden is joined by Clément Petitjean (@clement_petitj), lecturer in English and Anglo-Saxon languages & literatures at Pantheon Sorbonne, University of Paris. Clément wrote for us in advance of last week’s snap elections in France about the emergence of the New Popular Front, and we're excited to have him join to debrief that election – and talk a little about what lessons we can glean from it as observers across the pond. Clément's book Occupation: Organizer is available now from Haymarket Books. Support this show and others like it by rating and subscribing in your podcast player, subscribing to Convergence on YouTube, or becoming a paying subscriber: convergnecemag.com/donate