Fixing France Av Nabila Ramdani

France, the romanticised, revolutionary nation with an enlightened historical mission—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity for all—is failing its own citizens and its admirers around the world. A makeshift Fifth Republic, born out of the cataclysmic Algerian War of Independence, has produced extremism. Constitutional reform is urgently needed: an all-powerful monarchical president displays little interest in democracy, while a mainstream far-right party founded by Nazi collaborators threatens to deliver the next head of state. Segregated suburbs, institutionalised rioting, economic injustice, a monolithic education system, the debasement of women, deep-seated racial and religious discrimination, paramilitary policing, terrorism, and a duplicitous foreign policy all contribute to the growing crisis.In Fixing France, Nabila Ramdani assesses the fault lines in her struggling nation with unflinching clarity and originality. As a French-Algerian, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, her compelling perspective is very different from that of establishment elites.Ramdani’s critique is stark but offers real hope: the broken French Republic can, and must, be fixed.