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Dave Kellaway gives an update on the deepening crisis in France and we translate the latest statement from npa - nouveau parti anticapitaliste.
Yesterday, the crisis in France over Macron’s attempt to force people to work another two years before they can take a state pension took a new, (...)
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to gag parliamentarians imposing the adoption of a (...)
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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The use of the 49.3 by the government is a democratic scandal. It shows the weakness of the government’s social base and of its authoritarian (...)
The French government on Thursday announced it will use an article of the constitution that allows it to adopt as legislation its proposed and hotly contested reform of the pensions system without a vote in Parliament. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart political correspondent Ilyes (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age has stirred mass opposition. The labor minister pushing the bill is an ex-Socialist — and the huge protests in his hometown show how the neoliberalized center left has sold out working-class France.
It’s a chilly, rainy day in Annonay, just south of (...)
The March 7 demonstrations in 280 cities in France broke the records of popular mobilization since the beginning of the movement for the defence of pensions: 3.5 million demonstrators according to the CGT, and 1.28 million according to the Ministry of the Interior. In both cases, these figures (...)
Millions of French citizens are participating in the sixth national strike wave against President Macron’s proposed pension reforms, as reported by Dave Kellaway. Despite the government’s efforts to push the reforms through parliament, the mobilisation continues to gain momentum.
Commentators on (...)
The battle against the French government’s pension reform is not simply just another protest movement. Three crucial issues are at stake here: social, democratic and civilisational, as shown by the exceptional unity among trade unions opposed to the changes, argues Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)
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“Murder in the Pacific” (three part series) BBC (...)
Since the mobilizations against the proposed pension reform took off on 19 January, women’s groups, collectives and associations have been actively participating in the days of action, in explaining the implications of the reform, in taking many forms of action. The reform has particular (...)
For a month now, the mobilizations against Macron and his government have not weakened, quite the contrary.
Last week, two days of action were announced by the national inter-union coordination: a day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday 7, and demonstrations on Saturday 11 (without calls (...)
Blind and deaf…
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Introductory note by Dave Kellaway, who translated this statement.
Tuesday (7th February) saw the third day of massive mobilisations against President Macron’s proposed extension of the pension age from 62 to 64. It was 60 up until 2010. Yesterday, many universities and some schools were (...)
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January have just broken all the records: more than two (...)
Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social movements in years, it has a chance to deal a decisive blow to attacks on welfare.
According to police figures, Tuesday’s nationwide protests (...)
Save this article in PDF Version imprimable de cet article Version imprimable Tip A Friend The day of strikes and demonstrations 31 January was a success! Two and a half million people took to the streets, more than on Thursday 19 January. The time has come to step up the mobilization: to (...)
The strike and demonstration figures are historic, with 1.2 million demonstrators according to the police, more than two million according to the joint union committee, very high strike rates (more than 70% in education), massive mobilisations in the cities. 50,000 in Bordeaux and Toulouse, (...)
The question of pensions will become a major social and political issue in France. The working classes are already heavily affected by the consequences of the Covid years and the crisis in the health system. A reform of unemployment benefits will come into force at the beginning of February and (...)
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Scenes of burning cars in Parisian streets have been used to paint France’s Kurds as a riotous minority. Yet their angry protests are fueled by a string of racist killings — and French authorities’ refusal to reveal the full facts of the cases.
On Friday, December 23, the Kurdish community in (...)
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