The fierce
resistance of the French people against the neoliberal onslaught
culminates. From RT
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A major French union has warned
Paris that the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer tournament opening could
be disrupted unless it backs down on contested labor law reforms.
It comes as tens of thousands of people hit the streets again to
protest the legislation. The warning on Thursday by the hardline
CGT union took aim at the 2016 UEFA European Championship (known
as Euro 2016), scheduled to begin in France on June 10. The match
will be played at various stadiums throughout the country,
including Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, and Paris. But if the
CGT has its way, those games will only be taking place if Paris
agrees to back down on a highly contested labor law reform.
[...]
tens of thousands of people hit the
streets in protest on Thursday, leading to clashes between police
and demonstrators, Reuters reported. [...] Protesters also
aimed to choke off power and fuel supplies and paralyze the public
transport network on Thursday, with employees halting their work
at oil refineries, nuclear power plants, and railways.
Demonstrators also erected road blocks and burned wooden pallets
and tires at major ports and near key distribution hubs.
[...]
despite employee walk-outs, street
demonstrations, and threats from unions, French Prime Minister
Manuel Valls has rejected calls to scrap the part of the labor
reform law which has most angered the CGT. That section would
allow companies to opt out of national obligations on labor
protection if they adopt in-house deals on pay and conditions with
the consent of the majority of employees.
[...]
The Thursday protests are the latest
in a string of demonstrations in recent weeks, in which 350 police
officers and several protesters have been injured and more than
1,300 people arrested.
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Photos from
tvxs.gr
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It seems
that France will not be a "piece of cake" for the global
oligarchy and its neo-Feudal plans:
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[...]
- The experiment in Greece continues
as planned. Once we bring salaries at the level we want, and
destroy the welfare state, we will continue to the rest of the
eurozone.
- Well, alright with the PIIGS, but
how about France, Germany and the entire north? People will never
accept such policies there.
- They will. We will start with
Italy and Spain. We will order rating agencies to attack, exclude
them from markets and throw them to the ECB trap. They will be
forced to take similar measures, as Greece did, in order to
receive liquidity. Then, we will attack France and Germany.
- There will be huge riots!
- We will try to limit them. We've
already forced governments in Greece and Spain to criminalize
protests.
[...]
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