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Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
9 May 2012
France: A weekend that shocked Europe
Rejection of austerity in Eurozone's second biggest economy: Sarkozy's downfall, alongside the crushing defeat of the pro-austerity parties in Greece, was a real turning point, writes Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
25 April 2012
France: Left Front vote shows potential for new workers' party
In the first round of the French presidential elections, held on 22 April, François Hollande (28.6% vote) of the social democratic Socialist Party (PS) narrowly headed incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy (27.1%) of the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)...
5 April 2011
French Unions' Protests How The Movement Was Built From Below
A teacher-activist speaks to the socialist: EARLIER THIS year a mass movement involving millions of French workers took place against pension reform...
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
25 October 2010
A major trial of strength between the classes
Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy 'dictatorship'.
Analysis and report from Clare Doyle (CWI Secretariat) recently in Paris and Rouen, discussing with members of Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)
15 September 2010
IN AN enthusiastic response to the call by the major French trade union organisations, three million workers took to the streets of France on 7 September for a day of massive strikes and demonstrations in protest against the Sarkozy government's attack on the country's pension system...
15 September 2010
IN AN enthusiastic response to the call by the major French trade union organisations, three million workers took to the streets of France on 7 September for a day of massive strikes and demonstrations in protest against the Sarkozy government's attack on the country's pension system...
25 March 2009
France: Three million take to the streets in national strike
THURSDAY 19 March saw three million workers and young people take to the streets of over 200 French cities, writes Danny Byrne, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
5 February 2009
France: millions strike against Sarkozy's policies
ACCORDING TO the police, 1.1 million people took to the streets of France on 29 January. The unions put it at 2.5 million. Either way, it is already bigger than the biggest demonstration during the CPE...
26 November 2008
France: Education strikes on the agenda
MORE THAN 250,000 teachers and youth demonstrated in France on 20 November. At the same time half of all teachers were on strike. It was the first national strike day in all the sectors of national education...
21 May 2008
International discussion on the way forward for socialists
London, Wales, Sheffield, Merseyside reports: IN AN inspiring rally, 120 people from across London were treated to a first hand account of the political movement in France in 1968 from Marie-José Douet.
21 May 2008
France: Workers and youth resist Sarkozy's attacks
SCHOOL STUDENTS have been leading the fight against education cuts in France, writes Manny Thain.
16 April 2008
France 1968: 10 million workers occupied factories
Can it happen today? Speaking tour details: Virginie is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France). She is a socialist activist and is a trade union representative.
16 April 2008
France 1968: month of revolution by Clare Doyle
With a new introduction. Originally published in 1988. Brutal police repression of student demonstrations. Within days, 10 million French workers were on strike. Socialist Books, PO Box 24697, London E11 1YD, www.socialistbooks.co.uk
or ring 020 8988 8789.
1 April 2008
France 1968 - Month of revolution
Speaking tour: 10 million French workers on strike May 1968.
6 February 2008
France: LCR votes to launch a new party
THE REVOLUTIONARY Communist League (LCR) in France held its 17th congress on 24-27 January and agreed, with a large majority, to initiate a new, broad, anti-capitalist party... By Judy Beishon
22 November 2007
France: massive public sector workers' strike
MOBILISED TO defend public-sector jobs and pay, hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike in France on Tuesday 20 November. ... By Karl Debbaut, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
26 April 2007
France: Record turnout sees Royal and Sarkozy go through to second round
THE FIRST round of the French presidential elections last Sunday left capitalist commentators in an almost jubilant mood...
13 April 2006
Mass struggle in France forces government retreat
JUST OVER a week after signing into law the new employment contract which allows bosses to sack workers under 26 years of age without warning or giving a reason in the first two years, France's president Jacques Chirac - faced with mass opposition, led by workers and young people - abandoned it, writes Robert Bechert, CWI, writing from France.
6 April 2006
Mass protests continue in France but what next?
THE 4 April "day of strikes and protests" saw renewed mass action and demonstrations across France. As we go to press these protests, in around 200 towns and cities, seem to be either the same size or bigger than those, writes Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International.
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