Agricultural crisis, overseas, automobile industry… Social anger is rising everywhere in France

It is not a convergence of struggles, but rather a collision of anger: at the beginning of the month, the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination called for rail freight to be blocked from November 19. The SNCF unions perhaps did not pay attention to this: they then announced a first strike from November 20 to 22, accompanied by a notice of indefinite strike from December 11, which could continue until Christmas vacation. The railway workers are mobilizing against the “discontinuity plan” to which Fret SNCF is forced to avoid liquidation: this dismantling responds to an injunction from the European Commission, which accuses France of having granted anti-competitive aid to a public company, and had was decided after negotiation by the Borne government.

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But other professions are also mobilizing: airline pilots protested this Thursday against the increase in taxes on air transport, in a strike that was ultimately little attended. Mobilization will certainly be stronger in the public service, which plans “a day of action, rallies, demonstrations and strikes throughout the country” on December 5, at the call of the unions who denounce the budgetary restrictions and the introduction of three days of waiting for sick leave. Another profession mobilized, medical biologists, who threatened to close their laboratories from December 23 to 31, to demand the reopening of negotiations with Health Insurance for their lower prices.