{"id":318691,"date":"2017-07-24T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/melenchon-hails-french-army-as-he-launches-movement-against-macrons-cuts\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:23:45","slug":"melenchon-hails-french-army-as-he-launches-movement-against-macrons-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/melenchon-hails-french-army-as-he-launches-movement-against-macrons-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9lenchon hails French army as he launches movement against Macron\u2019s cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>M\u00e9lenchon hails French army as he launches movement against Macron\u2019s cuts<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>24 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The crisis that erupted after the resignation of French armed forces chief of staff General Pierre de Villiers has rapidly exposed the class character of Unsubmissive France (LFI). Shortly after launching LFI\u2019s movement against President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s drastic austerity policies, LFI leader Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon rapidly aligned himself with the financial demands de Villiers had made before resigning.<\/p>\n<p>This underscores a basic political reality: the anti-Macron movement M\u00e9lenchon wants to build is a pro-war movement that would subordinate the interests of the working class to the strategic interests of French imperialism. But long historic experience shows one cannot defend workers\u2019 living standards by kowtowing to the generals. Explosive class struggles are being prepared against Macron, but workers\u2019 opposition will be expressed and can only find expression through struggles waged independently of M\u00e9lenchon and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9lenchon is an unambiguous advocate of military spending and war. To the media, he denounced Macron\u2019s \u201cenormous error\u201d in proposing \u20ac850 million in defense budget cuts. He also applauded de Villiers\u2019 provocative statement to the National Assembly denouncing these cuts: \u201cIf his duty is to serve, his duty is also to say the reality of the situation. The head of state has created an extremely unhealthy situation between the army and the Nation, and I deplore this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his blog, M\u00e9lenchon demanded unstinting financial support for France\u2019s wars: \u201cWhatever one thinks of the value of defense spending, whatever one thinks of the conflicts in which our armed forces are engaged, the duty of the country is to abide by these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/24\/mele-j24.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 M\u00e9lenchon hails French army as he launches movement against Macron\u2019s cuts By Alex Lantier 24 July 2017 The crisis that erupted after the resignation of French armed forces chief of staff General Pierre de Villiers has rapidly exposed the class character of Unsubmissive France (LFI). Shortly after launching LFI\u2019s movement against President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}