Fixing France

Francetheromanticised, revolutionary land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for allis failing.Reform isurgently needed.This book is apowerful indictment of the status quo, andahighly originalperspective on the challenges to which thenationmust rise.Nabila Ramdani is notfromthe establishment elite:she isa marginalised insider, born and raised in a neglected Paris suburb. With unflinching clarity, she probes the fault lines of her strugglingcountry, exposing the FifthRepublic as an archaic systemwhich emerged fromAlgerias cataclysmic War of Independence.Today,a monarchical President Macron showslittle interest in democracy, while a far-right party founded by Nazi collaborators threatens toreplace him. Segregation,institutionalised rioting, economic injustice,the debasement of women, a monolithic education system, deep-seated racial and religious discrimination, paramilitary policing, terrorism and extremism, and a duplicitous foreign policyallfuelthegrowing crisis.Yet Ramdani offers real hope: the broken French Republic can, and must, be fixed.