
53 years on from the Bloody Sunday massacre of defenceless marchers in Derry, the British state has shamelessly absolved itself of any guilt for the slaughter. Soldier F – who pulled the trigger against five on Bloody Sunday – has been acquitted.

Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly has been elected President of Ireland with a thumping majority. Alongside mass absenteeism, the election is a disaster for the Irish establishment.

We publish here the analysis of the Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire – the French section of the RCI – on Lecornu and his government’s reactionary budget surviving a no confidence vote thanks to the MPs of the ‘centre-left’ Socialist Party.