WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA News Journal Update - (en) Russia AIT: Labor France continues to fight against pension reform (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Despite the fact that the French President officially signed the anti-social

pension reform law, the workers and youth of France continue to resist this
attack on their rights and interests. The protests are accompanied by riots and
street fights with the police. However, the bureaucratic bosses of the reformist
trade unions, by refusing to call a general indefinite strike, paralyze the
movement. ---- The tenth, eleventh and twelfth days of strikes and protests,
which were announced by the trade union alliance, took place on March 28, April 6
and 13. On March 28, about 2 million people took to the streets, including 450
thousand in the capital. During the protests, battles with the forces of the
capitalist order were in full swing in many cities of the country. In Paris,
black bloc demonstrators set fire to garbage cans, built barricades and smashed
supermarkets. The police released gas. The Eiffel Tower and the Palace of
Versailles were closed to visitors. In Rennes, the crowd threw stones at the
police, who used tear gas and water cannons. In Nantes, protesters set fire to
cars and a bank branch, throwing various items at police officers. Tear gas was
used to disperse the protesters. Near Nantes, in the city of Saint-Nazaire, the
police also resorted to tear gas and "non-lethal" weapons. The demonstration in
the city of Tulle in the south-west of the country was accompanied by violent
clashes between demonstrators and the police. Banks and Molotov cocktails were
thrown at the guards of the capitalist order, the police used tear gas grenades.
In Lyon, demonstrators fired firecrackers at police. Those dissatisfied with the
reform temporarily interrupted the movement of trains at Saint-Etienne station in
Lyon. The radicals smashed the local branches of BNP Paribas and Attijariwafa
Bank. In Lorient, demonstrators blocked railroad tracks with burning barricades.
At Moulins they climbed onto the roof of the town hall. Protesters interfered
with public transport in Rennes, Lille, Gera. In Nantes, those dissatisfied with
the reform erected barricades on the city's ring road; in Toulouse, entry to the
territory of the French national meteorological service Mete-France was closed.
Due to strikes at oil refineries and fuel depots, about 25% of gas stations in
the country have reduced the range of fuel, 7% of the fuel has ended. The police
reported that 175 police officers were injured. About 200 protesters were
captured. (the protesters were captured. reformy/a-65161759)

On April 6, thousands of demonstrations shook Paris, Nantes, Marseille, Lyon,
Nice and other cities. The total number of protesters, according to trade unions,
was about 2 million. The marches were marked by radical actions and clashes with
the police. In Paris, on Danfert-Rochereau, protesters blocked the police special
forces. Hundreds of members of the Black Bloc and Yellow Vests threw bottles,
firecrackers and stones at police guarding the luxurious Rotunda restaurant,
where Macron was celebrating his election victory. The building was set on fire.
Further, on Boulevard Raspail, the agency of the Credit Agricole bank was
destroyed, and then an attempt was made to attack another bank. Demonstrators
broke into the building of the BlackRock investment fund. In Nantes, policemen
were pelted with stones; street battles broke out. In Strasbourg, demonstrators
broke through police barriers by force. According to the police, 154 police
officers were injured and injured. At least 111 people were captured, including
45 in Paris. On the railways, the movement of high-speed trains was reduced by
25%, and regional express trains by half. In the electric power industry, a fifth
of the employees were on strike. In schools, 8% of teachers stopped working
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Many educational institutions were blocked by students during the strike of
schoolchildren. On a number of occasions, the police broke through this blockade
with tear gas and batons.

On April 13, 400,000 people took to the streets in Paris alone. During the
protests, the demonstrators seized the headquarters of LVMH (the owner of Louis
Vuitton, Christian Dior, Hennesy and other luxury brands), and then broke into
the Champs Elysees. Near Place de la Bastille, a bank office was destroyed.
During the clashes, there were wounded among the demonstrators and the police.
Molotov cocktails flew to the police. A spontaneous demonstration took place in
the subway. The strikes caused traffic problems. The Paris Garbage Workers' Union
went on strike again after a break. The previous one lasted 3 weeks and left 10
thousand tons of garbage.

  In total, marches were held in 250 cities of France. In Rennes, strikers
blocked the street with a burning Mercedes. Schoolchildren blocked the entrances
to the lyceums. Some flights have been cancelled...

The approval of the reform by the French Constitutional Council on April 14
caused a general outburst. Spontaneous riots swept 100 cities across the country.
In Rennes, the police commissariat was set on fire; there were heavy clashes with
police in the city center. The entrance to the Jacobin monastery was set on fire.
Arrested at least 11 people. Clashes engulfed Grenoble and Lyon, where heavily
armed police closed the Croix-Rousse quarter. Barricades made of garbage cans and
bicycles burned in Paris, and city property was damaged. A large police force
dispersed the protesters. It was forbidden to hold actions near the building of
the Constitutional Council, and the protesters gathered on the Greve square
against the city hall. At first, they moved towards the Elysee Palace, but were
repulsed by the police and headed for the Place de la République. Clashes with
police continued throughout the night.

In total, at least 150 people across the country were arrested by Saturday morning.

On April 17, Macron went on television, still with the same stubborn tenacity,
declaring that the reform would be implemented. He repeated his old song, full of
arrogant contempt for everyone who does not belong to the ruling elite: they say
that the masses are irresponsible and do not understand anything, but he knows
that reform is indispensable. So, be patient, bitch!

In response to another impudence of the ruler of France, spontaneous riots broke
out again in the evening in various cities. The protest march of empty pans took
place in all major cities of France. In Paris alone, thousands of people demanded
the abolition of the pension reform.
The French greeted the approach of twilight with salutes. But they did not fly
into the sky, but into cars parked on the streets. Protesters smashed shop
windows, set up barricades and set fire to trash cans. The loudest night was in
Lyon. The mob fired firecrackers at the police and set the local branch on fire.
The gendarmerie had to use water cannons and tear gas to push back the
demonstrators
(https://mir24.tv/news/16549413/marsh-pustyh-kastryul-podzhogi-i-pogromy-...)

In Paris, in different parts of the city, "pot concerts" thundered: there was a
roar of iron utensils, which had previously accompanied the performance. In
Rennes, about 700 people gathered with pots and pans during a speech by the
president in front of the city hall, the path of the protesters was blocked by an
impressive police barrier. But with the end of Macron's address, the audience did
not stop thundering. In Lyon, up to 600 people gathered in front of the city
hall, several hundred protesters came to the city hall of Marseille. In Nantes,
the authorities counted more than 800 demonstrators

Street confrontation in France has long acquired the features of a small and
diffuse civil war. Only from March 16 to early April, during clashes with
protesters, 1,093 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters were injured, 2,579
deliberate arsons and 316 attacks on public buildings were committed.
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Considering the brutality of the French police, such a tough rebuff is not
surprising.

Meanwhile, the trade union bosses, despite their declarations of their intention
to continue the struggle, actually sabotage it, treacherously dooming the protest
to defeat. They are not going to organize new protests until May 1st. And they
still avoid the only way to bring the Macron regime to the wall - a general
indefinite strike. It is to this method and the use of "yellow vest" methods of
self-organization that the French anarcho-syndicalists call.

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