While the draft law is being discussed in the Senate, France’s trade unions have announced that they will remain unyielding: the showdown with the government has only just begun. What drives the French to take to the streets against retirement at 64? A report from the demonstration in Paris.
Martin has hidden his long dark curls under a hood, he and his buddies are on foot – strike in Paris, that also means on this day: Many metro lines are canceled, the buses are overcrowded; anyone who can set it up hasn’t even gone to the city to work. The streets belong to the cyclists, e-scooter riders and skateboarders, and almost everyone has a homemade cardboard sign with them: against Macron, against retirement at 64 or against capitalism.
Source: Stern
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