by Ross Domoney | Nov 12, 2026 | France, Politics and Movements: International, Unions, video
On November 5, 2026, workers, trade unions, and members of the Yellow Vest movement took to the streets across France in a mass nationwide strike, joining the student uprising that has gripped the country and captured the attention of the world, with demonstrations, riots, and barricades spreading throughout towns and cities.The movement began weeks earlier, when students started blockading schools across France, protesting deteriorating conditions in the education system amid a deepening cost-of-living crisis. As demonstrations spread, they faced severe police repression, including horrific injuries caused by so-called non-lethal riot control weapons. These injuries included students loosing eyes from rubber bullets and hands from stun-grenades. The police violence helped galvanize wider support, turning school protests into a broader national movement, which at times has teetered on the brink of a full-scale insurrection.For this on-the-ground report, Ross Domoney of The Real News Network and Shadowgraph Media was in France documenting the uprising, police repression, and the growing movement of workers and young people challenging the old-order.The uprising has now spread across Europe with riots and protests happening in multiple countries.
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An uprising has spread across France and the cops are cracking down hard. Teachers are trying to protect their students from batten charges. What began as school blockades over crumbling conditions has erupted into a nationwide revolt against the cost of living crisis and police violence. The
by Henry A. Giroux | Nov 8, 2026 | Austerity, Capitalism, Corruption, Democracy, education, elections, France, India, Italy, Neoliberalism, Op-Ed, Organizing, Protests, Repression, Serbia, Student protests, uprisings, Youth
Young people are taking to the streets across France, Italy, Belgium, India, Serbia, and Albania, refusing to surrender their futures to a capitalist system that has abandoned them or to a politics that Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have described as “end times fascism.” These protests are fueled by mounting anger over deteriorating schools, economic insecurity, unaffordable housing…
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by Maximillian Alvarez | Nov 2, 2026 | Economy, Economy and Inequality, France, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Unions, Working People
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For the past month—led by students and joined by parents, teachers, labor unions, and more—France has been gripped by one of the largest protest waves in modern history. Protestors have faced violent police repression, a recalcitrant government, and rampant misinformation or skewed coverage from rightwing and corporate media. In this special international edition of Working People, we speak directly with a broad range of students and union members across France who are on the front lines of the current protest movement, and we put them in conversation with union workers and leaders in the US.
Editor’s Note: This episode contains an edited-down version of a Zoom webinar panel discussion recorded on Sunday, October 25, organized in partnership with The Real News Network, the Chicago Teachers Union, Haymarket Books, and the French labor union Force Ouvrière. Unless expressed by elected organization leaders, all views shared in this conversation and on the original webinar are those of the speakers alone.
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Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, “Hundreds of thousands march across France in protests over schools and policing”
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Alright. Welcome, everyone, to Working People, a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today. My name is Maximillian Alvarez, and today we are taking you to the streets of France, where mass, student-led protests have swept the country for the past month. We’ve gotten so many
by Amy Goodman | Oct 6, 2026 | France, high school students, Interview, Paris, Police Brutality, school funding, Student protests
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, falling debris and more. But the scope of the…
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by Jake Johnson | Sep 18, 2026 | Canada, France, Israeli Settlers, News, Palestine, Sanctions, UK, west bank
The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing, and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. “Today, we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering…
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by Amy Goodman | Jul 27, 2026 | Climate Change, Climate Crisis, France, Global Warming, Heat Wave, Interview, Neoliberalism, Spain, Wildfires
France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spain, where they have consumed more than 120,000 acres in what is now the most destructive fire in Spain’s recent history. Meanwhile, a new heat wave is expected to hit Europe this week…
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