More than 1.5 Million Demonstrators : Monsieur Prime Minister, Revoke Your CPE!

by UNEF (National Union of Students of France)

Monsieur Prime Minister, revoke your CPE [Contrat Première Embauche — First Employment Contract]!

Once again, the demonstrations against the CPE were an enormous success. More than one and half million people poured into the streets to make the Prime Minister understand that they want the revocation of the CPE, period.

Demonstrators in many marches exceeded 10,000, nay 100,000: more than 350,000 people in Paris in fact, 130,000 in Marseilles, 70,000 in Bordeaux, 50,000 in Toulouse, 45,000 in Nantes, 35,000 in Rennes and Lille, 20,000 in Caen and Limoges, etc. With more than 160 marches throughout France, this day marks another success of the anti-CPE mobilization that the Prime Minister would be wrong to ignore.

If the government persists in not listening to the messages of the street and the public opinion demanding the revocation of the CPE, the coming week will be marked by a new expansion of the movement in progress. Far from being a peak, March 18 will have been only one springboard for the mobilization.

67 universities are on strike against the CPE now. The UNEF [National Union of Students of France] calls upon the students right now to continue to struggle, grow their strike movement, and to mobilize themselves side by side with workers, to win the revocation of the CPE together.