France convulsed by waves of nationwide protests, invisible to most Americans

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The Real News Network reports on France's enormous demonstrations, which the US media have systematically distorted or simply ignored.


France’s Pension Reform Met with Massive Protests and Strikes

December 6, 2019
 

Prof. Jean Bricmont discusses the biggest strike since President Macron was elected in 2017. Millions are protesting the new pension reform, which will force private sector workers to work beyond retirement age in order to gain their full pension rights. Trains, public transport, schools are shut.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jean Bricmont is the author of Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War. He is also a mathematical and statistical physicist at the University of Louvain, and he is the co-author of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science.



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