The mobilization was called by French trade union organizations. They report that across the country, a total of 1.6 million people are participating in the strike, including 350,000 in Paris.
The unions are speaking out against rising cost of food, energy, housing which have eroded workers’ purchasing power, while wages and pensions haven’t kept pace. They are demanding wage increases, more funding for public services, and protections for industrial jobs. Their demands include wage increases, more funding for public services, and protections for industrial jobs.
The general strike is an escalation of the student demonstrations which have rocked France the last few weeks calling for more investment in public education, school staff, and deteriorating school infrastructure.
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This is really neat, but at the same time France is one of the countries more transparent in their neocolonialism, so ultimately my hope is that the remaining neocolonies will kick France’s butt and let France deal with these contradictions.
Many unions in these strikes are calling for demilitarisation of infrastructure, opposition to overseas way, and boycotting Israel. So it’s not a purely inward-looking strike either.
That’s neat, but I’m not sure most French people care about how their current standards of living are built on top of exploiting their former colonies to this day.
These manifestations are the best way to induce critical consciousness about colonialism.
I agree. But if we’re having this conversation it’s because it’s a missed opportunity so far.
No doubt. My neighbors have absolutely no clue here in America. Just a bunch of star spangled nonsense.