Riot policemen drag away an unidentified unionist from the PTT-Sud who was seriously injured on the Nation square in Paris, Saturday, March 18, 2006, during clashes between protesters and riot policemen, following a students and unionists demonstration against the First Job Contract, known as CPE.
The unionist was unconscious and in serious condition Monday, March 20, 2006, police and hospital officials said.
The PTT-SUD union claimed the 39-year-old man had been "violently trampled by a (…)
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French unionist seriously injured
21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Unions pile pressure on Villepin with threat of a national strike action
20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By John Lichfield
After a weekend of mass student demonstrations and scattered street battles, the French government faces the prospect of a prolonged social crisis unless it suspends its new youth jobs rules.
Smelling political blood, trade union leaders will consider calls for a national strike unless the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, withdraws his "easy hire, easy fire" law for young, first-time, job-seekers.
More than a million students, sixth-formers and sympathisers (…) -
Red and Black Flag flies over Marseille Town Hall
20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
France, Marseille - March 18th 2006 - Organisers have reported over 130,000 demonstrators in the City of Marseille this afternoon, the largest demonstration outside Paris. The demonstration left the Porte D`Aix, under Marseilles own Arc de Triomphe at 3 p.m. to take a circular route around the city to arrive at the Vieux Port.
As the crowds dispersed a small group of youths then left the main group and succeeded in entering the City Hall overlooking the port. To applause from others they (…) -
French Union Leaders Threaten Strike
19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By Philip White
(EUNN) London - French union leaders threaten to strike over a contested jobs plan for youths that sparked violent protests in Paris over the weekend.
French union leaders have given Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin until tomorrow night to withdraw the plan that would provide jobs for the young that critics of the jobs plan see as a reduction of older workers rights.
Speaking on France-Inter radio, Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT union, said, "If the government (…) -
More than 1.5 Million Demonstrators : Monsieur Prime Minister, Revoke Your CPE!
19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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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 (…) -
Protests Heat Up as France Feels the Chill of Change
17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
PARIS, March 16 - Once again, students are on the barricades in France, evoking comparisons to the uprising of May 1968. But this is not a revolt. It is not 1968 revisited.
Certainly, students are taking to the streets and shutting down universities, and tear gas penetrated the heart of Paris. Today, hundreds of thousands of protesters, most of them students, filled the streets and marched in cities throughout France. With teachers, workers, labor union leaders, the jobless, even retirees (…) -
When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
William Pfaff: When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
Governments in France are unwise to launch initiatives affecting students and the young when springtime approaches and the sap rises. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has put himself in a difficult situation at a moment when the French already suffer depression connected with unemployment, a sense of economic vulnerability and what seems like political futility. This week, Villepin confronts street demonstrations of (…) -
Student protests erupt across France
17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Students want a controversial labour law scrapped
French students have clashed with riot police across the country, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched against a new government youth employment plan.
At least 250,000 people took to the streets on Thursday in up to 80 towns and cities across France, according to police. Organisers put the figure as high as half a million.
Student leaders said 120,000 people marched through Paris’s university quarter, although police said (…) -
The Lies of Bernard-Henri Lévy By Doug Ireland (In these times)
16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Bernard-Henri Lévy is so ubiquitous in France’s media that he is universally referred to as BHL. But in Parisian intellectual and journalistic circles he is known by the moniker BHV-the French department store that sells anything and everything. BHL had hoped to sell himself to the United States with American Vertigo, in which he travels the United States “in the footsteps of Tocqueville.” No one is buying.
American Vertigo reminds me of that old movie, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be (…) -
France : a look at the growing revolt against CPE
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package CPE on the 16th of January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year olds on two year contract that would allow them to fire the youths without notice, and without explanation.
In responce, student union bodies called for a week of meetings and mobilisation from 30th january including a call for a (…)