Police have stormed Sorbonne

[Djehuti]

This morning police stormed the Sorbonne university in Paris, where hundreds of students had barricaded themselves in protest against the new labour market laws that attacks the working class. Tear gas has been used and many people have been injured.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4795648.stm
http://paris.indymedia.org/


-68 strikes back?

The overnight violence has echoes of the labour and student unrest of 1968 in Paris.
One Parisian student, named only as Elodie, told AFP it was not a conscious attempt to repeat those riots.
"The context is different," she said. "In '68, the students when they left university, they found work."

[bolshevik butcher]

This shows that the Laitn American working class now has allies in its militancy. As the worlds working class suffers from recession and attacks from the ruling class events like these will become more common.

[Djehuti]

A good article on the subject:
http://en.internationalism.org/node/1721

[Djehuti]

A timeline:
http://anti-politics.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1137

Diskussion at another forum:
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8...der=asc&start=0 (http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8484&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)

[Comrade-Z]

According to Toulouse Indymedia, the French CNT has called for a general strike for thursday, march 16th. Furthermore, the CNT, the occupied and striking universities, and other groups are calling for major nationwide demonstrations on saturday, march 18th.

http://193.189.147.16/cmitlse/article.php3?id_article=4268

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

2 days before the anniversary of the Iraq War, which is sure to be filled with protests in America....:)

[VukBZ2005]

This is my main concern on the situation: Will it get past *just* having the laws overturned or become something bigger and a praxis for all the social issues France has into a real revolutionary situation?

[bolshevik butcher]

French society is exceedingly polorised and has a tradition of militancy. It is the task of socialists there to spread the message as you say of not just getting new laws but to press the message of turning society on its head.