France

Assemblies Of The Commons Emerge In France

June 22, 2016 Maïa Dereva, www.geo.coop Create! Cooperatives, France

By Maïa Dereva for Grassroots Economic Organizing - In France, the theme of “commons” as a possible structure for society re-emerged gradually since the late 90s and French books on the subject have been published since the 2000s. This question has been confined to the field of digital commons for a long time, and has expanded more and more in recent years into areas such as community gardens or food cooperatives. Events clearly identified as related to commons began to be organized in 2009 (“Brest in commons“) and are scattered over thirty territories in 2013.

Media Blackout As France Witnesses Biggest Revolution In 200 Years

June 4, 2016 Sean Adl-Tabatabai, www.yournewswire.com Resist! France, Revolution

By Sean Adl-Tabatabai for Your News Wire - The first collaborative protest against the Socialist government since Hollande came to power in 2012, kicked off on 9 March. On March 31, nearly 400,000 people took to the streets, disagreeing with the sweeping changes to labor laws; though organizers put the number at 1.2 million. On April 9, about 120,000 people marched in Paris and across France for a sixth time, protesting against contested labor reforms. Organizers called for yet another strike on April 28, and a massive protest on May 1, Labor Day.

Protests Intensify, French Workers Refuse Submission

May 29, 2016 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Resist! France, General Strike, Labor Movement

By Andrea Germanos for Common Dreams. Amid ongoing blockades and intensifying clashes with police, protests against President François Hollande's controversial set of labor reforms deepened on Thursday as workers in France's nuclear plants joined the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in a nationwide strike. Fueled by "a groundswell of public anger," as the Associated Press put it, the strikes have already shut down France's gas stations forced the country to dip into reserve petrol supplies. "After oil refinery shutdowns, " Euronews reports, "Thursday's strikes at nuclear sites have taken the stand-off one stage further. Power cuts are not expected but tension is growing as France prepares to host the Euro 2016 football tournament in two weeks time." Sixteen out of the countries 19 nuclear plants voted to join the strike, AP reports. In addition to clashes in Paris, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators, the Guardian reports "that street marches took place in towns and cities across France.

Strike Hits French Oil Refineries, Police Break Up Picket

May 25, 2016 Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com Resist! France, Oil, Strikes

By Angelique Chrisafis for The Guardian - French riot police have used water cannon and teargas to break up a strike picket blocking access to a large oil refinery near Marseille in an attempt by trade unions to paralyse the country’s fuel supply network in protest at changes to employment laws. The pre-dawn police raids to force down a picket line at the Exxon Mobil Fos-sur-Mer refinery marked an escalation in the standoff between the French president,François Hollande, and protesters led by the CGT union.

Strikes And Protests Mount Against French Labour Law

May 24, 2016 Kumaran Ira, www.wsws.org Resist! France, Labor, Law, Protests

By Kumaran Ira for WSWS - As strikes and protests mount across France, social opposition to the unpopular labour reform imposed last week by Socialist party government without a parliamentary vote by using article 49.3 of the French constitution last week, is escalating. The pro-business law allow unions and bosses to negotiate contracts violating France’s Labour Code, lengthen the work week, facilitate mass sackings, and undermine job security for young new hires. Denouncing the PS government’s regressive reforms and anti-democratic method, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth protested the law for the second time this week yesterday.

US Protests Pale Compared To Spirited French Protests

May 22, 2016 Clotilde Bigot, www.alternet.org Resist! France, Labor protest, Nuit Debout, Student Activism

By Clotilde Bigot for AlterNet. France is a far more rebellious country than the United States. People march in the streets and go on strike for the smallest reasons. But this time, there is evidence of a major revolt as hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting against a new labor law for weeks. High school and university students were the first to join the protest, to block their schools and to demand the withdrawal of the law, quickly joined by trade unions, and by the youth, in general. The grassroots movement called Nuit Debout ("Night on Our Feet") has been protesting virtually nonstop. With unemployment high in France, the nominally Socialist government of François Hollande has aggressively pushed through a new law. In the face of hostility Hollande has chosen to bypass a vote in the National Assembly using a rarely used executive power, which has sparked the most recent of a series of massive protests. In the meantime, Hollande has been unsuccessful overall in gaining consensus on the labor plan, failing to unite the Socialists in his own party, which the conservatives are strongly against as well.

France Erupts In Defiance Of Employer-Friendly Labour Reforms

May 18, 2016 Duncan Cameron, www.rabble.ca Resist! France, Labor

By Duncan Cameron for Rabble - France is continuously rocked by debates around the meaning of the Enlightenment ideals of liberty, equality and solidarity that predate the French Revolution. Some important notions are widely shared. Most French citizens expect governments to meet the basic needs of all and promote individual expansion of talents and abilities. It is generally agreed France should offer educational, cultural and recreational facilities to every child.

French Government Resorts To Emergency Powers To Pass Labor Law

May 11, 2016 John Lichfield, www.independent.co.uk Resist! France, Labor, Legislation

By John Lichfield for Independent - The French government has resorted to its emergency powers to impose changes in employment law which have provoked violent protest in recent days. In a stinging reverse for President François Hollande a year before elections, the government failed to persuade a blocking minority of its own Socialist deputies to support plans to simplify and loosen France’s complex rules on hiring and firing.

Nuit Debout: Building An Open Movement In France’s Squares

May 5, 2016 Paolo Gerbaudo , www.roarmag.org Strategize! France, Nuit Debout

By Paolo Gerbaudo for ROAR Magazine - I think that the Labor Law is what made people join this movement. But in a way it was just the initial pretext for the mobilization to begin. Most people are coming here because they think there is a problem of democracy in France. There are two reasons for this feeling. First, the el-Khormi bill shows that there is no difference between the parties of the left and the right. It has been made by the Socialist Party but it is essentially a right-wing law.

TTIP Talks ‘Likely To Stop’, Signaling France Will Reject Deal

May 4, 2016 Andrew Griffin, www.independent.co.uk Resist! France, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Andrew Griffin for Independent - Talks over the hugely controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement could be about to fail after France threatened to block the deal. Paris officials have said negotiations between the US and EU are "likely to stop" amid significant disagreements between the two sides over the free-trade agreement. President Hollande has said he will "never accept" the deal in its current guise because of the rules it enforces on France and the rest of Europe

A French Spring

April 30, 2016 Jonah Birch, www.jacobinmag.com Resist! France, Nuit Debout

By Jonah Birch for Jacobin Magazine - A new movement against labor market deregulation is taking shape in France. Since February, when the Socialist Party (PS) government of François Hollande and Manuel Valls announced a proposed reform of the French labor code (code du travail), a wave of protestshas swept across the country. On March 9, 500,000 people participated in a national day of action; an additional 1.2 million joined trade union demonstrations on March 31; and on April 9, tens of thousands more marched in Paris and other French cities against the law.

Nuit Debout: Dawn Of A Revolution?

April 18, 2016 Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery, www.newsjunkiepost.com Resist! France, Nuit Debout, Revolution

By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery for News Junkie Post - Some call it a phenomenon, others compare it to the failed 2011 Occupy movement, but Nuit Debout has taken the largely discredited French political class, from across the bogus standard left to the far right, by surprise. Sociologically, it should not be a surprise at all. The backdrop is a sense of deep social malaise, a ras le bol et envie de redevenir vivant (a spillover and wish to be alive again). France, as a society, has been morose and depressed for decades, and the state of emergency imposed in a cowardly panicky haste by François Hollande’s administration since November 2015 has turned the country into a pressure cooker.

Photos: Protesters Take To Streets Across Europe

April 10, 2016 Roar Collective, www.roarmag.org Resist! France, Greece, London, Nuit Debout

By Roar Collective. In what may turn out to become a very hot spring, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in major European capitals to protest against their governments, call for the resignation of their political leaders and take back control of their lives. In Reykjavik, mass protests have already brought down the Prime Minister over the rapidly expanding #PanamaPapers scandal, and in London similar demonstrations took place on Saturday to demand the resignation of David Cameron, who was forced to admit this week that he personally profited from his father’s offshore fund, mentioned in the leaks. In Athens, refugees marched to demand open borders and respect for the human right to asylum, while in France a budding indignados-style movement has been building in the squares in opposition to a new labor law, the state of emergency and the growing unresponsiveness of the Socialist government to popular concerns.

Nuit Debout Occupies In Revolutionary Call For Change

April 10, 2016 Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com Resist! Democracy, France, Nuit Debout, Occupy, Refugees, Worker Rights

By Angelique Chrisafis for the Guardian. Nuit debout, which loosely means “rise up at night”, the protest movement is increasingly being likened to the Occupy initiative that mobilised hundreds of thousands of people in 2011 or Spain’s Indignados. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Photograph: Elliott Verdier/AFP/Getty Images Despite France’s long history of youth protest movements – from May 1968 to vast rallies against pension changes – Nuit debout, which has spread to cities such as Toulouse, Lyon and Nantes and even over the border to Brussels, is seen as a new phenomenon. It began on 31 March with a night-time sit-in in Paris after the latest street demonstrations by students and unions critical of President François Hollande’s proposed changes to labour laws. But the movement and its radical nocturnal action had been dreamed up months earlier at a Paris meeting of leftwing activists.

Newsletter – Building Toward Political Revolution

April 9, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Banking and Finance, Corporate crime, Democracy movement, Education, Farmworkers, Fight for 15, France, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Neo-Liberalism, Nuit Debout, Opt-Out, Police violence, Prisoner rights, Privatization, Student Activism, Tax Evasion, Tax havens, Whistleblowers, Worker Rights

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Of course, we also know the Panama Papers leak is about just one tax evasion firm, and not a major one. This is a small tip of a massive tax evasion iceberg. Estimates are that $7.6 trillion in individual assets are in tax havens, about one-tenth of the global GPD. The use of tax havens has grown 25 percent from 2009 to 2015. Gabriel Zucman, author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens and assistant professor at UC Berkeley estimates that US citizens have at least $1.2 trillion stashed offshore, costing $200 billion a year worldwide in lost tax revenue and US transnational corporations are underpaying their taxes worldwide by $130 billion. The Panama Papers will escalate demands for transformation of the economy as well as of government; continue to increase pressure on capitalism and result in the growth of the people powered movement for economic justice.

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