For salaries, for the repeal of pension reform, or even “against the triumph of the world”: trade union organizations call to overcome the pavement on Thursday for May 1, but the mobilization is carried out without a broad unit.
For International Workers Day, the CGT has identified some 260 demonstrations in France. The Montreuil power plant called FSU, solidarity and young organizations (Student Union, UNEF, FAGE, USL) to parade “against the extreme right, for peace, freedoms and social justice.” If, as last year, the Intersyndicale will not join for the occasion, the number one of Foedéric Souillot will parade along with its counterparts, including the leader of the CGT Sophie Binet, in the Parisian procession.
In Paris, the demonstration must go to 2 pm from the place d’A Italie to the place of the nation. Other processions will begin in the morning, such as Marseille and Lille at 10:30 am, this will also be the case from 10 am in burgundy, Strasbourg or Dunkerque, where the leftist officials, such as Marine Tondelier (environmentalists), François Ruffin (ex-flFi) or Boris Vallaud (PS) are expected to protest against the plan of the steel arle. 600 positions.
The number one of the CFDT Marylise Léon and her counterpart of UNSA Laurent Escure are in the morning in the center of Paris for a meeting and a round table at work.
“Against the Triunción”
One hundred days after the arrival of Donald Trump, the CGT, the FSU and the solids also want to make this day a highlighted “against the world of the world and the reactionary international that takes place everywhere,” said Thomas Vacheron, CGT manager, to the AFP. International unions (United States, Belgium, Argentina in particular) were invited to the Parisian parade. “This unit and international approach is a small step” to combat the policies that threaten workers (increase in customs duties or massive expulsions of clandestine workers), according to Murielle Guilbert (solident).
This year again, a police source, the presence of ultrault activists is considered very likely in Paris, Nantes or Lyon, among others. Similarly, in the capital where more than 2,000 police members are expected, the government’s decision to dissolve the anti -fascist group “the young guard” and the group of “Palestine emergency” could reach the climate. “We will not tolerate anything,” said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, Wednesday.
“We must put in perspective” this presence of “black blocks” in front of “hundreds of thousands of protesters and expected and nuanced Sophie Binet on Wednesday, denouncing” unfortunately classical strategies (…) to discredit social mobilization. “
In 2023, the eight main unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, ANSA, Solidarres, FSU) paraded together against pension reform, unheard of for almost 15 years, with a very strong key mobilization (between 800,000, according to the authorities and 2.3 million, according to the CGT). Last year, the figures returned in more ordinary forks: between 121,000 people, according to the authorities, and 210,000, according to the CGT; And on Thursday, the mobilization should significantly attract the same number of protesters (100,000 to 150,000 of the police source).
Only vacation and unemployed day
This traditional meeting is held when unions fear that the Government supports the proposals of laws aimed at authorizing certain professions to make employees work in the public holiday on May 1 in France, a day acquired “in the blood and in the tears of the workers,” recalls Sophie Binet.
The union of “yellow vests” also called its supporters to carry out a secret operation at various meeting points. “We will show Power Partners what a real union is,” they wrote in a call published in the social network X.
Source: BFM TV
