Statement by the National Secretariat of the Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (PRCF)
The resignation of Sébastien Lecornu on Monday, October 6, 2025, just hours after forming his government, once again demonstrates the absolute accuracy of the analyses of the Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (PRCF). Indeed, since the end of 2020 – well before the re-election of the illegitimate despot in April 2022 and the dissolution of June 2024 – the PRCF has repeatedly explained that whatever government is in place, it will be impossible for it to gain popular approval – and, since the summer of 2022, the approval of the national representation.
For beyond the now frantic turnover of prime ministers (three in one year since the appointment of Michel Barnier, with Sébastien Lecornu having just broken a short-lived record under the Fifth Republic), the real problem is the policy that the proponents of the Euro-Atlantic order want at all costs to convert the workers of France, who are increasingly reluctant to accept this order. This is therefore a serious crisis of political legitimacy, in line with what Lenin already explained, since “those at the bottom” no longer want it and “those at the top” can no longer continue to live in the old way.
The old way, however, is the set of Euro-Atlantic policies that have been pursued for nearly half a century (!) by successive governments, from Raymond Barre—who was singing the praises of austerity as early as October 1976! — to Sébastien Lecornu, who was planning a new bloodletting for workers. This austerity policy is demanded by the MEDEF (French Business Confederation), but also by the supranational institutions of Capital, starting with the capitalist European Union (EU) and its currency, the euro – whose predecessor, the European Monetary System, was established in 1979…
It is in the name of this austerity, conceived by the EU as an irreversible straitjacket for workers, that right-wing and so-called “left-wing” governments are competing in ingenuity to destroy social gains (wages, pensions, social security, etc.) and public services required to drastically “cut their spending,” dismantle the one, secular, and indivisible Republic in the name of the “Girondin pact,” dissolve sovereign France into the “European federal state (and its language in the “all-English” promoted by the EU), putting an end to civil liberties and democracy—even to the point of stubbornly refusing to accept the arrival in power of the New Popular Front, the political force that came out on top in the June 2024 legislative elections.
However, it would be illusory to believe that appointing a prime minister who is not a staunch Macron supporter or compatible with Les Républicains will change anything in terms of the country’s total deadlock. In its previous statements regarding the appointment of a new prime minister, the PRCF pointed out that the real issue is not at this level but rather the need to break completely and definitively with the policies pursued by Macron and his compatible satellites, including Le Pen’s Rassemblement, which is totally subservient to the EU-NATO order and continues to pledge allegiance to the “Fifth Republic” at the end of its tether. For it is indeed within this structural framework, which strangles workers, that increasingly austerity-driven policies are being pursued… and increasingly warmongering policies under the dictates of US hegemony.
It is quite striking to note that the discredit and impasse in which Macron finds himself are exactly the same as those affecting Donald Trump and his henchmen, Benjamin Netanyahu (Macron’s “dear friend,” according to the latter!) and Volodymyr Zelensky. You would have to be born yesterday not to see how, on the one hand, the fascist Israeli theocracy is continuing its policy of annihilating the Palestinian people—notably by starving them, as advocated by the fascist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich; and on the other hand, how the regime in Kiev (which Donald Trump has decided to support
You would have to be born yesterday not to see how, on the one hand, the fascist Israeli theocracy is continuing its policy of annihilating the Palestinian people—notably by starving them, as advocated by the fascist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich; and on the other hand, how the regime in Kiev (which Donald Trump has decided to support even more…) is riddled with corruption at all levels, revisionist neo-Nazism, and anti-communism, which has been targeting progressive political and trade union activists since 2014.
Above all, one would have to be completely blind not to see how the center of the world is gradually shifting towards the Indo-Pacific axis, as spectacularly demonstrated by the 25th Congress of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on August 31 and September 1, 2025. An anti-hegemonic counterforce is developing under the impetus of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, attracting regimes that are sometimes less than commendable, such as Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, reactionary Egypt, and the Iranian mullahs’ regime. but at least the motley coalition that is taking shape, which includes progressive regimes such as socialist Cuba, is providing a growing counterweight to US hegemony, which is becoming more discredited by the day.
From now on, the only solution available to the Euro-Atlantic order is to rush headlong into fascism and march toward war, as is already happening in the United States, where Vice President James D. Vance, couldn’t care less about killing innocent people in international waters, in total violation of maritime law, who are portrayed as “drug traffickers” by Yankee propaganda, and threatening the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The fact is that opposition and resistance to the hegemonic order, still evident recently at the UN where more than 100 countries—including the People’s Republic of China—committed to increasing their greenhouse gas reductions, are growing to the detriment of the historic hegemonic order.
As a result, the United States and its allies have no choice but to rush headlong into war, pushing for the encirclement of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, notably via the Arctic and the annexation of Greenland claimed by Donald Trump, the bombing of opponents of hegemony such as Iran and Venezuela, and a frenzied and frightening arms race—with the goal of allocating 5% of the national budget of NATO member countries to rearmament (with 10% to follow?).
Behind Lecornu’s resignation and Macron’s downfall, all of this is actually at stake. In this regard, refusing to call for Macron’s resignation, as the confederal union leaderships—including the national leadership of the CGT—pitifully do – in favor of a powerless and lamentable “strategy” of “leapfrog days” with no future and no prospects for workers (most recently on October 2, 2025) – constitutes a real betrayal of the workers and, worse, continues to fuel the EU-NATO machine, which it is VITAL to break with as soon as possible.
Of course, it would be illusory to believe that all the country’s problems would be magically solved if Macron resigned (or was impeached?). For if this means that the Le Pen-Bardella duo (equally committed to the Euro-Atlantic order) would come to power and thus allow fascist forces to wage a witch hunt against foreigners, Muslims, trade unionists, and progressive (and already communist) forces, it would of course be impossible to accept.
The fact remains that Macron’s departure before the end of his second usurped term would be a powerful factor in mobilizing citizens and workers, bringing them back to the forefront of the national scene to confront the structures of Capital on the basis of progressive change, rather than lulling them to sleep as advocated by “social democracy.”
This is why the only solution lies in the red and tricolor alternative, popular and patriotic, which the PRCF has been calling for years and which requires a progressive Frexit, something that unfortunately the national leaderships of LFI (which indulges in mendacious alter-Europeanism) and the PCF categorically refuse. This is at the risk of feeding the reactionary and fascist far right, which is nevertheless pro-European, and disappointing the workers, who are calling for radical measures. It is no coincidence that the slogan launched by the PRCF in September 2022—before the major demonstrations in defense of pensions in January 2023! –, “Money for wages, not for war (or for shareholders)!” has now been widely taken up by the red union rank and file (and first and foremost by those of the CGT).
In line with the tricolor struggle led by the recently deceased PRCF president Léon Landini, the National Secretariat calls more than ever not only to weaken as much as possible the defenders of the Euro-Atlantic order in France (including by demanding Macron’s resignation), but also, at the same time, to pursue the only possible political strategy that has been validated by the working class, namely breaking with the euro, the EU, NATO, and exterminatory capitalism. Only at this price will it be possible to build the “New Happy Days” called for by the PRCF, for which so many resistance fighters and comrades of Léon Landini sacrificed themselves.
For the illegitimate Macron: RESIGN!
And for the EU-NATO axis: LET’S GET OUT!
