France’s militant unions held the first major day of protest on September 12 against the ordinances introduced by the government to undermine the country’s labour laws.
Their protests were seen as the start of the campaign to defend workers’ rights. It served as a major test for the capacity of (...)
French unions will strike today against Macron’s anti-labor reforms. It is likely to be the beginning of a long battle.
Demonstrators protest Macron’s anti-social policies, July 2017. Credit: RT
After much anticipation, the French government finally unveiled sweeping labor law reforms on August (...)
“Our uprising has nothing to do with the collar-and-tie pantomime artistes who govern us. It was the visible expression of an invisible force. It was the public manifestation of a drive for life. It came from gut feeling and from the heart. You do not subject gut feeling to balance sheets. You (...)
The Valls government will not manage to stifle the rejection of the labour law before July 5, the date when it returns to the National Assembly for a final vote. Most likely he will not be able to avoid having recourse to article 49.3 , unless he really retreats on the content of the projected (...)
The protest movement against the proposed labour law (known by the name of the labour minister El Khomri) has been underway since 9 March of this year. The SP government is trying hard to snuff it out. Last week the Paris demonstration called by the coordinating committee of 9 trade-union (...)
The French government has reversed a controversial ban on a Paris protest march against François Hollande’s proposed new labour laws, saying the street demonstration can go ahead but only if it is confined to a small area of the capital.
A political row had broken out when the authorities issued (...)
For the government and the media controlled by the regime and the big groups, this day was to be a non-event, the symbolic gesture of an exhausted movement. And yet a huge cortege marched in the streets of Paris on June 14, 2016 crossing the southwest neighbourhoods of Paris from the Place (...)
Massive strikes and protests are rocking France, with the threat of greater shocks to come as a hated labor law “counterreform” comes to the French Senate for discussion on June 14.
The Socialist Party government led by President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls is attempting to (...)
The government’s plan to adopt employment laws more in line with those in the UK has plunged the country into strike chaos.
What do France’s labour reforms aim to achieve?
The reforms that have plunged France into strike chaos this week are aimed at simplifying and relaxing the country’s labour (...)
French government’s use of constitutional shortcut could provoke political backlash.
PARIS — The French government on Tuesday decided to use a constitutional provision to ram its controversial labor law through parliament without a vote.
The decision, pushed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, is (...)
Following the footsteps of similar movements elsewhere, Nuit Debout is the most important challenge to French elites in years.
Nuit Debout, France’s massive mobilizations against a proposal to dismantle the country’s labor code, has drawn comparisons to similar international movements — Occupy, (...)
France’s Nuit Debout movement has the potential to not just defeat a single law, but to move beyond defensive struggles.
After a month of occupations, France’s Nuit Debout movement is beginning to confront crucial questions about its political goals and how to move forward. Among other issues, (...)
The day of strikes and demonstrations on April 28 produced mixed results: - half as many demonstrators as on March 31 (500,000 demonstrators according to the CGT, compared to more than a million on March 31). - many combative responses and promising link-ups; - an increase in police violence (...)
Popular protests have erupted against efforts to dismantle France’s labor code.
A new movement against labor market deregulation is taking shape in France. Since February, when the Socialist Party (PS) government of François Hollande and Manuel Valls announced a proposed reform of the French (...)
Nocturnal movement with undefined goals is turning into a headache for François Hollande.
PARIS — If only they could be paid off.
A youth-led nocturnal protest movement known as La Nuit Debout (or “Up All Night”) is becoming a serious headache for President François Hollande — not because of its (...)
Place de la République, Paris
The movement occupying public squares in France is two weeks old today. Its evolution is difficult to foresee, as it is influenced by many unpredictable factors, even though it has deep roots. There is also no indication, at the time of writing, if the symbolic (...)
For more than a week, vast nocturnal gatherings have spread across France in a citizen-led movement that has rattled the government.
As night fell over Paris, thousands of people sat cross-legged in the vast square at Place de la République, taking turns to pass round a microphone and denounce (...)
The NuitDebout (Night on Our Feet) movement, which has occupied Paris’s Place de la République for four nights in a row, is not your average French protest, but could it reach the levels of the Occupy or Indignados movements?
NuitDebout started like many other French demonstrations. Student and (...)
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A new round of mass protests is shaking France under the slogan “Nuit Debout” (Up All Night) . The nightly demonstrations, similar in some ways to the Indignado protests in Spain in 2011 and the Occupy movement in the U.S., follow several massive mobilizations to protest the (...)
The national day of strikes and demonstrations on March 31 was unquestionably a success. The Inter-union Coordination (CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNEF, UNL et FIDL) announced over a million demonstrators in 260 cities. On March 9, the figure announced was 450,000 in 170 cities.
In most cities, (...)
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