High school students, employees, retirees… The demonstrators are preparing for the mobilization of November 5

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. Around fifty students blocked their high school in the Paris region on Thursday, November 5 in the morning before being dispersed by the police.

Very quickly after the dispersal, the police removed trash cans and bicycles to allow access to the establishment. Here, the day of mobilization begins at 5 a.m. “As long as the police repress us violently, I think it will continue,” argues a high school student.

Others were already preparing on the evening of Wednesday, November 4. A vocational high school teacher will participate in one of the 250 events recorded throughout the country this Thursday. “There is a tipping point.

For us, it's a call for a general strike, so not just National Education, but with all the interpro and above all renewable", assures Marion Dupré, co-general secretary of the CGT Éduc'action 06. The demands of the unionsMore than 17% of strikers are expected in nursery and primary schools. Active workers, retirees and young people are called to come together by the unions around the same demands: general increase in wages, tax justice or better study conditions.

“It is both a continuation since the government has not really responded seriously to the demands of high school students and I hope for an amplification of a movement which actually concerns all French people”, indicates Yohan Odivart, departmental secretary SNES-FSU (Marne). The authorities expect a total of nearly 800,000 people in the streets, numerous disruptions are expected in rail transport, mainly on regional lines and in the RER in Île-de-France.

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