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Inside France’s Biggest Uprising Since 1968

Students say leaking classrooms, missing teachers and 54 billion euros in cuts show France is failing its public schools, unions said.

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Marlon Ettinger Despite harsh reprisal from the government, students show no sign of stopping.

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Protesters in the current wave of social unrest in France have reproduced repeatedly invoked the youth revolt that reported the end of Charles de Gaulle's presidence. Yet a new, more individual approach to activism has shifted collective action to the background, against a vastly different socio-economic backdrop.

·Paris, France
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Against meritocracy and individualism.From Nantes to Marseilles, passing through Lille, Toulouse or Vaulx-en-Velin, hundreds of teachers and directors had in vain alerted the rectories and trade unions. Their difficulties became little by little insurmountable; their students, often, were on the verge of implosion. Teaching teams with lack of staff and absences without supply, overflowing or exhausted colleagues, classes with excess of students.…

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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