social movements
France: CPE employment law scrapped after mass protests
Following weeks of mass protest which have swept the country Jacques Chirac has announced the replacement of the CPE with a device in favour of getting disadvantaged young people into work.
THE RESPONSES:
* “A historical victory after a historical mobilisation”, said the president of the UNL Karl Stoeckel.
* François Chérèque of the CFDT trade union believes that “the objective is achieved”.
* Bruno Julliard of student union UNEF now looks to “Maintain the pressure” after this “first victory”.
EARLIER TODAY
A look at the growing revolt against the CPE
A quick overview of the struggle so far over the new French labour law liberalisation package the CPE over the past few weeks.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled the CPE on the 16th of January. He said that urgent action was needed to bring the French labour market into the modern era. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year olds on two year contract that would allow them to fire the youths without notice, and without explanation
France: Hundreds of thousands fight attacks on young workers
France has been hit with a wave of strikes, protests, marches and university occupations in recent days as workers, students and young people fight a new legal state assault on employment rights, reports Jef Costello for libcom.org news.
Beyond the New Left Part 2 - Muto Ichiyo and Inoue Reiko
Beyond the New Left Part 2 - Muto Ichiyo and Inoue Reiko
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The Revolutionary Movement in Germany, 1917-1923
Introduction
Whatever the struggle of the world proletariat, considered in Russia, in Germany or elsewhere, we will invariably get a vision about it -in its more concrete expression in a place and in a given period of time- through the world relation force between the enemy classes.
The politics of anti-road struggle and the struggles of anti-road politics - the case of the No M11 link road campaign
Through the passionate creation of conditions favourable to the growth of our passions, we wish to destroy that which is destroying us.
Ratgeb (1974)[1]
Lessons From The Struggle Against The Gulf War
The slaughter by the Americans and their allies of the deserting Iraqi troops represented a defeat for the international proletariat. This article shows how class struggle militants in Britain, by positing the class war ideally rather than practically, allowed the anti-war movement to be dominated by ineffective left-liberal sentiments and tactics.
