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France Today: Repression and Protest on the Street

by New Worker correspondent

French troops are pouring into Paris and other major French cities to back up police efforts to quell the student-led anti-government protests sweeping across the country. Demonstrations are being banned and curfews imposed on parts of Paris, Marseilles and Lyon. And President Macron has postponed a trip to Nigeria and Senegal to meet student representatives in a belated effort to end the crisis.

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Postman Pat in the Class Struggle

by New Worker correspondent

One recent Tuesday afternoon, as this correspondent was polishing off his weekly penny-worth, the postman called with four items. One was a high-class intellectual weekly that until recently tended to arrive on Friday or Saturday mornings, another was a letter postmarked a week earlier from 10 miles away. There were also two adverts that cancelled each other out: one from a chip shop, the other an invitation to join Weight Watchers. This is not a trivial point; the Royal Mail has been kept alive for years on just such junk mail.

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Editorial

A French lesson

If anyone had any doubts about leaving the European Union a brief glance at the news from France would soon put them straight. Million-strong student-led protests; rampaging riot police; tear gas and stun grenades; looting; cars and buildings torched; curfews and talk of a state of emergency and martial law. Now it’s spreading to Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal as workers join students campaigning for an end to the dismal regimes of their schools and colleges to demand an end to bread-line wages and austerity.

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