Victory for French Workers and Students

international | anti-capitalism | other press Monday April 10, 2006 11:00 by Dan - SWP

Victory for French Workers and Students

After months of continually escalating occupations, strikes and mass demonstrations against a job law that sought to transform French youth into the ‘Kleenex generation’, right wing French president Jacques Chirac has made a humiliating climbdown and announced the scrapping of the law.

Story in mainstream press at http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/0410/bre...0.htm
And http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060410/ts_nm/france_contra..._dc_3

Ongoing coverage at www.libcom.org
Eyewitness reports and analysis at www.socialistworker.org.uk
Background to today’s announcement at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/fran-a06.shtml