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Archive of accounts with radicals and working class activists on libcom.org.
Five days in Rennes
A report from one of our Paris correspondents, who spent the past five days in Rennes and took part in some of the anti-CPE protests there.
Rennes was interesting. I spent the last 5 days there, sampling the delights of the most militant, unified, unmediated resistance to the CPE in the country.
Report from demonstrations in Bordeaux
An eyewitness account from Bordeaux, where our correspondent Jay Taylor saw spontaneous marches through the streets after Chirac's speech last night.
On friday afternoon there were small groups of students roaming around town with loud hailers, handing out flyers asking people to attend the demonstration on Tuesday the 4th. Holding up placards at intersections asking people to hoot if they are against the CPE and CNE.
France in the streets: Largest demonstrations yet
Full coverage of today's demonstrations, strikes and riots as public transport and services crippled and nearly 3 million take to the streets in protest against the CPE.
Tuesday 28th of March - Summary
Report from Paris demonstration
A brief report of today's anti-CPE demonstration in Paris from Reglisse, a young student.
Today's demo in Paris was simply....... ***** amazing! Excellent organization, coordination, but, still, quite a lot of tension in the street. But still!!!!! I've never lived anything like this, even the demos against Le Pen were smaller in 2002....!!!!!!! I'm at loss of words to describe this.
Statement from an occupier of EHESS
A statement by one of the participants in the occupation of the Paris university EHESS, which was broken by police this morning.
Friday morning, the Graduate Center for Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris was cleared by riot police at 6am and left "ransacked." 72 people were taken into custody, asked for identification, questioned and released. By 11am, most of those detained were released and thus far, no charges have been filed.
A week in Montpellier
A first hand account of events in Montpellier this week, sent to us from an English resident who has been involved in events there.
16/03/2006 Montpellier : Demonstration, Occupation, Police and Thieves
Reflections on the violence within Thurday's demonstrations
Accounts and discussions on the mugging and beating of some demonstrators in last Thursday's Paris anti-CPE march.
We've reported on the incidents of violence amongst those demonstrating in Paris in previous articles. What we understand to be a small number of youths robbing and attacking demonstrators in small gangs. In some incidents these gangs have been fighting one another.
Paris set for another anti-CPE demonstration tomorrow
A demonstration organised by school and university students is set to take place tomorrow in Paris.
Called by the Coordination des Facs et Lycées d'Ile de France et de Paris or Network of Universities and High Schools of Paris and the Suburbs, the protest will march on the National Assembly.
A report from Paris III Censier
An excerpt of a report from the general assembly of Paris III Censier, submitted to libcom.org by some participants.
Thursday’s demonstrations throughout France brought some 500,000 students into the streets, and the movement has continued to increase in size; the big question of last week – whether or not the masses of wage workers would join the demonstrations planned for Saturday 18th March – has been answered in concretely: in France as a whole, there were something like 1,000,000 people in the streets
Paris - account and photos from our correspondent
A personal account and accompanying photos of the Paris anti-CPE demonstration and riot from one of our correspondents in Paris.
The metro on the way to the demo was packed, barely breathing space; it emptied entirely at St Jacques and we started marching to Place Renfort for the demo... Right away it was clear that this was as big a demo as I'd ever seen, maybe Make Poverty History would be bigger, but that doesn't count.
