CPE

CPE France blog

Steven. — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:30:21 +0000

Cyril Ferez

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:22:53 +0000

France: employment law ruled to be in breach of international law

jef costello — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:06:51 +0000

The CNE is an employment law that allows workers in small businesses with fewer than 20 employees to be kept on a two-year probationary period during which they can be fired without reason. It is the sister law of the CPE which triggered waves of strikes, blockades, demonstrations and occupations across France in 2005-6

Mouvement Communiste CPE leaflets for students and building workers

Steven. — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:37:09 +0000

It is as workers that we are attacked and not as students!

A lovely spring in France - CPE report by Mouvement Communiste

Steven. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:23:56 +0000

The struggle against the CPE has mobilised youth in the education system, starting in higher education and then followed by the high schools, with the principal objective of forcing the withdrawal of Article 8 of the 'Equal Opportunities Law'. This article introduced a new punitive employment contract reserved for young workers. The objective of the struggle has been fully achieved.

CPE and labour contracts in France

Steven. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:18:24 +0000

1) What is this new law about youth employment called and what it is about?

What remains of the anti-CPE movement? Echanges et Mouvement

Steven. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:53:46 +0000

A retrospective written by friends of Echanges et Mouvement. The text criticises the movement on a rather general level, e.g. of not being able to go beyond the boundaries of its student character and provides some overview of past student mobilisations in France.

The anti-CPE struggle report - Theorie Communiste

Steven. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:40:04 +0000

The anti-CPE struggle
Extracts of an analysis by Theorie Communist

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Occupation, not democracy! Greek student leaflet, 2006

Steven. — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:37:07 +0000

Occupation, not democracy!
Introduction

Heavy sentences for four anti-CPE protestors

Steven. — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:23:53 +0000

On Friday 10th November four militants, Jean-Pascal, Reda, Valentin and Pierre-Louis were sentenced by the court in Aix-en-Provence. All four were accused of "rebellion" and "violence towards members of the police force in the performance of their duties" during events as part of the anti-CPE movement.

2006: The French movement against the CPE

Steven. — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:09:57 +0000

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package the CPE (’first employment contract’) on 16th January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”.

Two weeks spent in Rennes

libcom — Sat, 27 May 2006 10:29:07 +0000

Sorbonne re-occupied on first day back

libcom — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:39:26 +0000

Several hundred students from various French universities had voted to re-occupy it, and around 200 students occupied a conference room, but were escorted out by riot police later that day.

Behind the blockades

libcom — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:16:39 +0000

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.

CPE replacement measures criticised - the protests must go on

libcom — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:00:43 +0000

French group Alternative Libertaire stated:

Like 1968, but different... Similarities and contrasts with the anti-CPE struggle

libcom — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:23:25 +0000

The recent movement in France against the CPE have been a massive inspiration to militant workers the world over.

University strikes wind down

alibi — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:57:35 +0000

At the height of the anti-CPE rebellion, over 60 of France's 84 universities were occupied, on strike, or severely disrupted.

12 April: Unis split over strikes as CPE replacement passes through lower house

alibi — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:03:18 +0000

-the law that will replace the CPE pass by lower house, Reuters report that "Chirac's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party used their majority in the lower house to force through legislation that will replace the job contract with new measures offering employers cash incentives to hire young workers. It was adopted by 151 votes for to 93 against.

Montpellier students to vote on further blockades

libcom — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:59:55 +0000

The 20,000 students of Paul Valéry University have been called by the management department to vote for or against the release of the campus, as Jean-Marie Miossec, the president of the faculty, announced on Tuesday, 11th April. All access to the building accesses has been blocked by anti-CPE students since the 21st February.

Deputies examine CPE replacement text as smaller demos continue

alibi — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:50:58 +0000

Meanwhile, having obtained the withdrawal of the CPE, university and high-school students demonstrated calling for the abolition of the rest of the 'law of equal opportunities' which the CPE was a part of, and of the CNE contract which was introduced last September.