France, October 2026: Reasons to Believe
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France, October 2026: reasons to believe
On 17 October 2026, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France. Starting with young people and secondary school pupils, the mobilisation brought together other sections of society around the issue of the cost of living, outside the traditional trade union and political structures. The Macronist government responded with repression on an unprecedented scale: a number of people taken into police custody not seen since the s…
After a month of blockages and demonstrations, the high school movement continued on Saturday, 17 October, with a broad mobilisation marked by violence. "Le Monde" analysed the events and reconstructed what happened during the re-entry of 2026.
While in France high school students rebel in a context of convergence of struggles, putting their conditions of study and life at the forefront, we are happy to participate in the reflection on the ways to deal, together, with the dangers that haunt us.Financed with money from the Gafam, the international colloquium that Mediapart organized on Saturday, 17 October, in Paris (here, the full program), resonated with another fundamental event in t…
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October 2026 will go down in history as one of the largest protests ever launched in France on behalf of students. As the days progressed, they ...
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