ER Editor: Diana Johnstone below discusses how Macron is driving pension reform toward private pension schemes that are hostage to the stock market (and we know how that went in 2008-2009) and private equity firms […]
ER Editor: The stalling and weird, not-quite-enough tactics by France’s main unions over the last six weeks are well analyzed below by Ramin Mazaheri. And this is a typical story of the unions here, who […]
Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project The Yellow Vests, France’s Gilets Jaunes, joined forces on Saturday with protestors against Macron’s neoliberal pension reform. Strikes and demonstrations against this reform have taken on […]
The French Strike Shows Workers Need to Deport the Oligarchy GEAROID O COLMAIN As French rail workers braved the cold this Christmas, continuing to strike, editors in the mainstream media were also busy — making […]
ER Editor: This was published on December 31. Ramin Mazaheri offers a useful commentary on how the French pension system works and how any austerity measures applied to it would be ruinous for ordinary people. […]
A news chronology of France in 2019: The year of Yellow Vest rebellion RAMIN MAZAHERI For The Saker Blog (cross-posted with PressTV) But before I list the (often unnoticed, misunderstood or covered-up) chronological facts of […]
Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project Why haven’t we heard much about the infamous Gladio Operation? Why aren’t we hearing about how the original Gladio has morphed and been renamed (even by […]
ER Editor: Transport strikes continue as strongly as ever this week against Macron’s neoliberal pension ‘reforms’ with the Christmas season looking to be affected. We recommend this from the Daily Express, France ‘deeply worried’ by […]
French Black Bloc’s utter uselessness… except to the French government RAMIN MAZAHERI For The Saker Blog On December 5th France’s long, long, LONG-awaited General Strike against austerity measures began, and it was a huge success: […]
French general strike starts: 3 weeks for victory like 1995, or more Austerity Era failure? RAMIN MAZAHERI For the Saker Blog (cross-posted with PressTV) Over the decade I have lived in France I have never […]
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