Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The national day of strikes and demonstrations organized in France on 5 October, called by the unions CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires, will not go down in history; it was not a failure, but the mobilization was average in terms of demonstrations and weak in terms of strikes.
Part of the “trade (...)
Garbage collectors occupied Paris’s city hall last Tuesday in protest against austerity measures that will make them work more days with no extra pay. Essential workers shouldn’t be the ones to pay for local government’s COVID debts.
Tuesday, May 25, looked like an uneventful day in a slowly (...)
“Extraordinary events are beyond the scope of ordinary explanations” Edgard Morin
“Democracy is not about Saturday afternoons”, French president Emmanuel Macron said, speaking about the Yellow Vests movement (YVM) that have been protesting every Saturday afternoon since November 17, 2018. Such a (...)
On 16 March 2020, as France was about to put its population into lockdown, the Education Ministry posted a serious message on its website : “The exceptional nature of the health crisis spreading across our country calls for an exceptional level of commitment from each and every one of us”. A few (...)
This report is a preliminary attempt to document the independent initiatives undertaken by AltDev partner organizations and civil society networks during the COVID-19 crisis in the Southeast Asian region. In order to cover a wider field of experiences, reports from other civil society (...)
To see the list of signatures and more information on this new initiative, see the French version Se fédérer — Un appel pour travailler ensemble en ces temps de crises.
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So many of us think and feel that the current system has had its days. But our voices are scattered, our calls are (...)
In France, Amazon continues to operate as if nothing had happened, despite the mobilization of the staff and warnings from trade unions, the inspectorate and the occupational health authorities, as well as criticism from the Ministers of the Economy and Labour. The result is a health and (...)
The move follows a French court order for the U.S. retailer to limit deliveries to essential goods amid controversy over virus safety measures.
Amazon said Wednesday 15 that it would temporarily halt its operations in France after a court ruled the company had failed to adequately protect (...)
On Saturday 29 February Emmanuel Macron called an emergency cabinet meeting, allegedly to discuss the Coronavirus emergency. However he also used it to decide that parliamentary debate on the much-contested pension reform would be cut short by using the constitutional clause “49-3” thereby (...)
Since 20 January, the movement for the withdrawal of the proposed Macron-Philippe pension counter-reform has entered its second act. Despite the fact that the last few days have seen the end of the SNCF and RATP strikes, the mobilization is far from over and the hundreds of thousands of (...)
A six-week strike has paralyzed France’s bus and rail networks, forcing Emmanuel Macron to water down his pension reform. The transit workers at the heart of the strike want to block the reform entirely — but their hopes of victory rely on other groups of workers joining them.
It’s early (...)
The French resistance to the pension reform has lasted a month. How significant and effective is this strike ? And what is the connection between the yellow vest and this strike ?
While the reform of the pension system must apply to all employees and workers, it is mainly workers in the public (...)
The movement for the withdrawal of the pension counter-reform entered its 46th day of strike at the RATP and SNCF on 18 January, the 46th day of mobilisation in various forms across the country.
The strike movement is still supported by a large majority of the population, support shown by the (...)
The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, (...)
Taken as a whole, the current movement against Macron’s planned pension reform is now on a par with the three main social movements of recent decades launched in response to pension reform: those of 1995, 2003 and 2010.
Macron and his government were hoping to wear down the strike movement of (...)
A government bid to cut back pensions has pitched France into its longest strike in decades. But as one railworker organizer tells Jacobin, the dispute is about more than retirement insurance — it’s about stopping Emmanuel Macron’s whole agenda.
It’s over a month since French workers began their (...)
On the eve of the financial crisis, Nicolas Sarkozy boasted that “when there is a strike, nobody even notices anymore.” But as France mounts its longest strike in decades, organized labor is once again showing its power — and its limits.
On November 17, 2018, France saw the birth of a movement (...)
Emmanuel Macron repeated it in his New Year speech : he wants to push through his pension reform. Against all the arguments of common sense, he decides alone. The balance of forces is the only possible language with this government. Strikes and demonstrations will therefore be essential.
This (...)
Last winter, yellow-vested protestors blockaded roads and roundabouts across France, building a social revolt outside of classic labor-movement structures. Today, the trade unions are back at the center of the fight against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. Yet the spontaneity and militancy (...)
The new day of demonstrations on 17 December confirmed the general trend of increasing social confrontation against pension reform.
Demonstrations were massive throughout the country, rarely lower, often higher in number than on 5 December, with the overall number of demonstrations at the (...)
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