A WIN discussion July 2024. See the discussion HERE. Coming straight after the European and British parliamentary elections, the second round of French parliamentary elections has brought an unexpected drop in support for Marine le Pen’s National Rally (RN) in comparison with its shock victory in the first round. Yet with 143 seats, compared to 88 in the outgoing parliament, this far-right racist party still represents a growing threat to the working class. At the same time, the alliance to the left of Macron’s ruling party, grouped together for the first time under the name “New Popular Front”, won the highest number of seats: 182, ahead of President Macron’s 168. What does this result mean for France and Europe? Has the shadow been lifted of a far-right presidency in three years’ time? Was Melenchon’s left party La France Insoumise right to join forces with the Socialist, Communist and Green parties? And when it came to the second round of voting, was this new alliance right to enter into an electoral pact with Macron’s ruling party? Did this represent a new manifestation of the Popular Front of the 1930s, which tied the working class to the political coat-tails of the pro-capitalist Radicals? What is the way forward for the French working class? To answer these and other questions, we welcomed RAYMOND DEBORD, Editor of the magazine Militant, and a former supporter of La France Insoumise.