France: All Together, Against Macron and his World, Against the Power of the Rich
Translated by Speak Out Now: www.speakoutsocialists.org Translated from Convergences Révolutionnaires – Special Issue; December 2019; www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org At the Élysée and Matignon palaces, the officials residences of the government officials, December 7-8 was “hot”: Édouard Philippe summoned his main executives in special sessions, Transport State Secretary Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister of Health and Insurance Agnès Buzyn, Budget […]
All together: General strike shuts down France
On Thursday, December 5, hundreds of thousands of workers in France went on strike against the proposal of French president Emmanuel Macron to raise the age of retirement and carry out cuts to workers’ pensions. Strikers included workers in the bus and subway lines, railroad and airlines, hospitals, postal workers, government employees and cultural workers. […]