I'll add my grain of salt because no one from France did yet.
France's left is in its dormant state, I'll explain.
In 2017, left-wing opposition was riled up by LFI's Mélenchon, love him or hate him, he managed to get roughly 20% of the votes. The PS got 6% votes, and refused to retract its candidate, which means Macron got to face off against Le Pen, and won by default. Now, that was 3 years ago, and here's what happened. LFI (La France Insoumise) got its image destroyed by both Mélenchon's character; and the press, bought and paid for. His party lost a lot of adherents, because of several party scandals, and lack of democracy in their party structure. The PS kept going downhill at a national level, but remains relatively strong at a local levels (see mayors and region-wide stuff). The greens have two factions within, socdems and neolibs, the current leader leans left, but I'm certainly not betting on them doing a revolution, especially when they keep talking about creating a "market ecology". At their left, we have the PCF (Parti Communiste Français, basically socdems at this point), on its way out and hemorraging voters, the NPA (Nouveau parti Anticapitaliste, Trostkyist mildly irrelevant) and is about to implode apparently, and Force Ouvrière (Troskyist and irrelevant).
The unions don't seem to really matter anymore, so I won't talk about them extensively. Reformist yellow unions seem to slowly gain power, replacing the CGT and more radical unions. While they marched several times in both 2019 and 2020, they achieved very little, and waited too long during the yellow vest protests to act; further losing credibility in the eyes of the public.
To sum up, the French left is electorally inexistent (if Greens and PS are not included). While the French population is getting VERY tired of neoliberal politics (see : yellow vests), the radical left-wing parties can't just seem to be able to unfuck themselves and show as a united front to capture this resentment, but who knows, perhaps this economic crash will change things ? Because if we don't, the FN definitely will, and may God help us all if it happens.
If you guys have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
I'll add my grain of salt because no one from France did yet.
France's left is in its dormant state, I'll explain.
In 2017, left-wing opposition was riled up by LFI's Mélenchon, love him or hate him, he managed to get roughly 20% of the votes. The PS got 6% votes, and refused to retract its candidate, which means Macron got to face off against Le Pen, and won by default. Now, that was 3 years ago, and here's what happened. LFI (La France Insoumise) got its image destroyed by both Mélenchon's character; and the press, bought and paid for. His party lost a lot of adherents, because of several party scandals, and lack of democracy in their party structure. The PS kept going downhill at a national level, but remains relatively strong at a local levels (see mayors and region-wide stuff). The greens have two factions within, socdems and neolibs, the current leader leans left, but I'm certainly not betting on them doing a revolution, especially when they keep talking about creating a "market ecology". At their left, we have the PCF (Parti Communiste Français, basically socdems at this point), on its way out and hemorraging voters, the NPA (Nouveau parti Anticapitaliste, Trostkyist mildly irrelevant) and is about to implode apparently, and Force Ouvrière (Troskyist and irrelevant).
The unions don't seem to really matter anymore, so I won't talk about them extensively. Reformist yellow unions seem to slowly gain power, replacing the CGT and more radical unions. While they marched several times in both 2019 and 2020, they achieved very little, and waited too long during the yellow vest protests to act; further losing credibility in the eyes of the public.
To sum up, the French left is electorally inexistent (if Greens and PS are not included). While the French population is getting VERY tired of neoliberal politics (see : yellow vests), the radical left-wing parties can't just seem to be able to unfuck themselves and show as a united front to capture this resentment, but who knows, perhaps this economic crash will change things ? Because if we don't, the FN definitely will, and may God help us all if it happens.
If you guys have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.