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: Occupations
Assorted photos of occupations from the French anti-CPE movement in 2006.
Anti-CPE Movement: Occupation at Censier - Laurent Hazgui
Images of the occupation at Censier university, France, during the anti-CPE movement in 2006. Photos by Laurent Hazgui, originally taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenthazgui/.
6 April: Villepin makes major speech amidst mass transport blockades
A round-up of news from the anti-CPE struggle in France, including Villepin's speech and responses, and the transport blockades across the country.
- Four student demonstrators and one policeman were injured on Thurday, the 6th April. At the end of the aftermoon, the police force removed some 450 students who were blocking the railways on the North Matabiau station and stopped traffic for an hour and half. According to the local authority, the five injured people were transferred to the hospital.
Capitalism under fire - International Herald Tribune
In this age of "La Pensée Unique" and corporate control of the mass media it's rare to find articles that get through the editing control net. But this from the International Herald Tribune no less, is one of those rare ones.
Capitalism Under Fire
"The protests' ostensible purpose is to force withdrawal of a minor change in this French government's employment policy, but they have taken on a radically different significance."
Anti-CPE Movement: Nice and Paris, 6th April 2006
Some pictures from the anti-CPE movement from Paris and Nice on the 6th April 2006. Photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherpen/ respectively.
Anti-CPE Movement: Gare du Nord, Paris, 6th April 2006
Thursday 6th April, approximately 2000 students and high-school pupils join in small groups a blockade at Gare du Nord, Paris around 3pm, staying on the tracks and blocking traffic for 2 hours. Photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/zulunation/.
5 April: CPE protests updates
Latest news from the anti-CPE struggle from across France from Wednesday 5 April including blockades of businesses and roads.
-The police force have opened the Gustave Eiffel High School, in Gagny, by force
-A hundred anti-CPE demonstrators, including the Revolutionary Communist League figurehead and postal worker Olivier Besancenot, blocked the postal sorting office in Nanterre earlier today
Report from the National Student Co-ordination
A political, critical and subjective report by a Sorbonne delegate on the National Student Coordination held in Aix-en-Provence on 25-26 March 2006.
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4 April: CPE protest live updates
Hour-by-hour coverage of the day of strikes, demonstrations and further blockades and occupations across France against the new employment law.
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Nantes: Students vote to continue occupations
Updates on General Assembly votes on high school occupations in Nantes, France in opposition to the CPE.
Lycee Goussier-Perrin: occupation continues. The headteacher demanded that all students be present for the general assembly (AG) so that they could vote to return to lessons. 62% of just over 1,300 students voted to continue the blockade.
Lycee Livet: Of the school's 1,600 pupils, 600 attended an AG where the continuation of the blockade was voted for by 70% of students.
