Class struggle heating up in France
France: Savage labour law vs strikes and blockades Class struggle is back in France, with some surprising new initiatives One of the leading weekly news magazines in France headlined last month “The CGT brings back class struggle”. On TV this morning, President Françis Hollande is insisting, sweating, “the situation is quite different from that of 1968”! What are the chances of French workers inflicting a decisive defeat on the “Socialist” government’s neoliberal savagery? Through April and May, millions of workers and students have taken to the streets in over a hundred towns across the country for seven separate days of action against the hated new Labour Law proposed by the Socialist Party government. An opinion poll in early May showed that 74% of the population were opposed to it (70% saw it as “in favour of business”). Only three per cent of those asked declared themselves “completely in favour” of the law and 22% “moderately in favour”! But the first reading of the bill was rush...