Re: [Marxism] France general strike threatened

[Greg Dunkel <gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AP, AFP, Libération, Le Monde, and France 2 (major national TV network)
all reported that the unions are holding a meeting Monday to consider
actions based on success of demonstrations last week.  We talked to a
friend who lives a few blocks from the Sorbonne, which is most
definitely blockaded along with 67 other public universities.

Bernard Thibault, who is secretary general of the CGT, was interviewed
on France 2 and said that the unions should consider a general strike if
the CPE law is not withdrawn before it goes into effect in April.  He
got support from Jean-Claude Bailley, SG of Force Ouvrière tonight on
France 2.

The PCF is holding its annual party conference starting either Tuesday
or Wednesday of the coming week. Which will put some pressure on it not
to cave.

Here is the URL for France 2

http://jt.france2.fr/20h/

It is totally in French, generally has the past week archived and even
if in French you can see some snippets of what happened.

/greg

rrubinelli wrote:
> will be there 3/26-29, in the meantime check out:
> http://www.stopcpe.net/cpe/


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