France Immigration: Paris Mayor Backs Illegal Migrants

September 3, 2026. By Socrates George Kazolias

This is sure to get me denounced as a right-wing extremist, ‘Islamophobe,’ and ‘Identitarian,’ and whatever else those who would like to save France from cultural nihilism, voire cultural annihilation, are called these days. But reality will always slap you in the face, (or bite you in the ass)…eventually.

When the Socialist mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, not only praised the presence of illegal migrants, but also seemed to support the illicit employment of undocumented foreigners in France, it is not surprising that more and more French voters are turning to the anti immigrant hard right.

Immigration and the real or perceived threats to security, and French finances, along with what voters think it means to be French, will ride high in how voters cast their ballots in next year’s all important elections.

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France: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, the Hard Right and Palestine.

Paris, July 12, 2026. By Socrates George Kazolias

Somehow civilisational conflict between communities in France, notably between the overwhelmingly Zionist Jewish community, and the Banlieues youth of recent immigrant background with their own form of antisemitism is serving the interests of the hard, ‘identitarian’ right,’ and the Palestinian cause is paying the price.

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Le Temps des Cerises: 50 years of bucking the system!

Paris, July 3, 22026. By Socrates George Kazolias

Le Temps de Cerises celebrates its 50th Birthday.

In 1976, a group of Anarcho – Syndicalists, with visions of the May-68 revolt still dancing in their head, decided they would take over a run down, working-class, area in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris: La Butte aux Cailles. They opened a series of bars, each named after a stanza from the 1848 Revolution theme song: Le Temps des Cerises, and a restaurant by the same name.

5Oth anniversary sale. photo @kazolias
Celebrating the 50th Annversary. photo @kazolias
50th anniversary sale. photo @kazolias
Celebrating the 50th Anniversaray. photo @kazolias
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Marching to WW3: I was wrong!

Paris, May 26, 2026. S.G. Kazolias

Europe’s march towards confrontation with Russia, following the US agenda these past ten years, is irrational, self-defeating, unnecessary and mind boggling. A century after The Great War, to my astonishment, Europe is sleepwalking into another potentially senseless slaughter. I gave European leaders too much credit for being reasonable and rational.

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Marco’s Ode to the White Man’s Burden

Paris, March 15, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias

Marco Rubio’s February 14 speech at the Munich Security Conference left the European elite aghast. They pretended it was because of its White Christian supremacist, imperialist, and neo-colonial tone. That is pure hypocrisy. The European elite were aghast because Rubio was saying out loud what they have been trying to keep behind the curtains. This is hard to write.1

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Dem or GOP, Same Outcome: War!

Stuttgart, January 16, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias.

Airman Aaron Bushnell self-immulation to protest US role in Gaza Genocide. Wash. D.C., August 17, 2024.

I am often criticised because I refused to vote Democrat against Trump in 2016, 2022 and 2024. No, I would never vote for the narcissistic, sociopath currently in office. I have to admit though, that the downward spiral is going much faster than I had anticipated. But my conscience told me that Democrat warmongers are no better for the world’s people than the Republicans. I also thought, naively, that Trump’s base could slow down his imperial appetite. On the latter, I was wrong. I maintain I am right about the Democrats.1

For me, the question is much like it was in World War Two. What was so democratic about the Allies for the people living in British, French, Belgian and Dutch colonies?2 Would it have changed their sort if the Axis had won? Critical thinking Americans tell us not to lose hope, that “Americans are good people.” There are too many supporters of fascism and wars of aggression in the country for me to say, “Americans are good people.” I am sorry but Americans are not good people. Please prove me wrong.

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2025 – A Year of Lies & War.

Tübingen, Germany, Dec. 31, 2025. By S.G. Kazolias.

2025 was a very bad year. 2026 doesn’t promise to be much better. There are signs of hope, but it may be too little, too late.

How Europeans see the USA’s march to Authoritarianism

Every now and then I have to put my rage on paper, or in this case on my blog. I know it doesn’t make a difference. Those who want to see have already looked up. There is nothing you can do about stupid, except stop him.

It is always like walking on eggs to express opinions which go against the Lobbies and powers-that-be in the EU. The march to repress freedom of speech and of thought, especially in denouncing genocide and war-mongering, has gone much further and much faster than I thought possible.

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FRANCE – ISLAM: Trying to Put Lipstick on a Pig.

Should we be worried that nearly half the Muslims in France privilege Islamic Law to the laws of the Republic and that the figures among Muslim youth born in France are much more radical? Or should we be relieved that half do not?

Does it change the meaning of the figures if we say ‘Islamic Law’ rather than ‘Sharia’?

The left, counting on their Muslim electorate, and a few Muslim associations, are striking back at an IFOP poll which shows Muslims in France are growing more and more radicalised and hostile to the host country. Some are saying this is Samuel Huntington’s revenge. Is the Clash of Civilisations paper proving true?

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FRANCE – ISLAM: Was S. Huntington Right?

Paris, November 28, 2025, by S.G. Kazolias.

Marianne, the symbol of Liberty and the French Republic

Nearly half the Muslims in France, 15 and older, believe Islamic Sharia Law should be applied in the countries where they live, according to a study published in November by the French polling institute, IFOP.1  This adhesion to rigorous Islam is higher among those aged 15 to 24, that is to say, youth born in France of recent Muslim migration and holding French citizenship. The French model of integration does not work.2

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