France – “come on the blues”

Melenchon football shirt
Melenchon football shirt, picture courtesy of Left Field

La France Insoumise (LFI), a left-wing French political party, has a marketing scheme the wake of the World Cup that combines football and politics – a Mélenchon 27 football jersey, sold to fund Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s presidential bid. The shirts have proved an instant hit, with the first 1,000 sold out within two hours of going on sale.

Read more on that story here Allez les Bleus, Allez la Gauche: Mélenchon’s France shirt is a masterstroke | Left Field

And while we are talking about France, here is a report from the August 2025 International Labour Network meeting, where Jeremy Wilcox takes a deep dive into Melenchon and La France Insoumise

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