Lille

When analysing the state of the working class, it is up to those looking at it to observe and evaluate the tendencies working within it. By this we don’t mean, “how many people have joined the Marxist-Leninist Workers’ League?” or “how many people self-identify as anarchists?” but something a little more subtle than that.

The "loi sur l'egalite des chances" of which the CPE was only a part, remains.

The alliance of unions that opposed the CPE has called for a continuation of the struggle as have many of the protesting groups. The CPE was the straw that broke the camel's back, but the reaction may well see all similar legislation withdrawn.

update: see full text at the bottom of this post.

Latest Poll
62% of French 'united', or 'in solidarity' with the anti-CPE movement (LCI poll)

Groups of a hundred in moving blockades, Lille

There have been a series of occupations of schools across the region, we are trying to give as much information as possible on the occupations and the General Assemblies that have voted for them and for their continuation.

Lille

At Paris's Le Place de la Nation, the vast square where this afternoons demonstration had ended, hundreds of youths were caught in pitched battles with the CRS riot police. Rounds of tear gas were fired and at least one molotov cocktail was thrown at police. By around 7pm calm began to be restored to the area.

From Indymedia Lille:
"Perhaps 50,000 people, it appears that the cops acknowledged 35,000 of them...

"All the trade unions were there, the high-school girls and students at the head of the demonstration. At the end of the demonstration there was agitation like has become accustomery.

Yesterday was the students day of action. We were giving updates as and when we recieved them, but this remains just a sample of what happened across France:

Today

Police put the figure at 396,000. Demonstrations took place in 160 cities accress France.