Workers' Liberty

The 2006 Movement Against Precarity – A First Assessment

For the Organisation of the Working Youth

On Our Work in the Lycées – from the JCR's 2008 Congress Second Discussion Bulletin

A large teachers' strike has been called for Tuesday 18th March in France, with teachers in many schools voting to strike indefinitely.

First posted 20 November. Six days into their strike, French transport workers are refusing to back down. In spite of constant attacks in the press, and union leaders trying to weasel their way out of a fight, rail workers are keeping up the pressure and the leading the public sector fightback against Sarkozy's reforms.

First posted 16 November. Student Movement overview (LCR website translation): 37 Universities wholly or partially on strike, with pickets: Paris I (Tolbiac), Sorbonne Paris IV, Paris III, Paris VIII Saint-Denis, Paris X Nanterre, Paris XIII Villetaneuse, Rouen, Tours...

Just a quick update, as I've not yet been able to collar anyone for more than a couple of minutes. (Everyone in the LCR office, especially their rail and student organisers, has gone into meltdown and is unreachable).