CPE
Coverage and analysis of the successful struggle against the French Contrat Première Embauche (Contract of First Employment) law, which would have permitted large employers to sack 18-26 year-old workers without notice, and without explanation.
Anti-CPE Movement: Paris, 9th March 2006
Photos of the March 9th 2006 demonstration against the CPE in Paris.
Riot police charge young workers in Toulouse
Eyewitness account of incident events in Toulouse yesterday afternoon.
From Toulouse indymedia:
Anti-CPE Movement: Marseille school students demonstration, 8th March 2006
Several thousand school students demonstrate against the CPE in Marseille, March 8th.
100,000 on the streets in Brittany
Nearly 100,000 demonstrate in Brittany against the CPE.
Numbers on demonstrations
Rennes: 20 000
Nantes: 30 000
Brest: 12 000
Quimper: 4000
Saint Brieuc : 12 000
Valves: 2500
Lorient: 6000
Saints-Nazaire: 4000
Chateaubriant: 400
Redon: 200
Ferns: 150
Dinan: 100
Glazed: 100
Pontivy: 1000
Saint Malo: 150
Students from Rennes stated:
One million throng streets in towns across France
Around a million took to the streets today to join protests against the CPE.
Police put the figure at 396,000. Demonstrations took place in 160 cities accress France.
Anti-CPE Movement: Grenoble, 7th March 2006
Photos of the March 7th 2006 demonstration against the CPE in Grenoble.
Anti-CPE Movement: Bordeaux, 7th March 2006
Photos of the March 7th 2006 demonstration against the CPE in Bordeaux.
Anti-CPE Movement: Toulouse, 7th March 2006
Photos of the March 7th 2006 demonstration against the CPE in Toulouse.
Anti-CPE Movement: Paris, 7th March 2006
Photos of the March 7th 2006 demonstration against the CPE in Paris.
CPE: Glossary of the unrest
A glossary of terms related to events to help explain certain words which cannot be translate perfectly translated or relate to background information.
This will be added to and amended as time goes on.
