“I think it will be successful, it will be successful, but it will not be enough.” Invited this Wednesday night by BFMTV, Olivier Besancenot, spokesman for the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) and former candidate for the presidential elections, estimated that “one day” of mobilization against the pension reform “will not be enough”.
“So we call for the day of 19 (January), but also for the march of youth and students on 21 and what will come after,” explained the figure of the NPA, adding: “and why not do two or three? days of strike immediately? That’s the only thing we haven’t tried.”
Call for “unity”
The day after the announcement of the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years, Olivier Besancenot urged “the broadest unity of the social, union and political left”. “This is not the time to work on their particularities,” he reiterated, while the unions called for a first day of mobilization on January 19 against the reform.
As a reminder, it is the first time since the pension reform carried out by Éric Woerth, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, that the entire trade union spectrum (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU ) will exhibit their unit in the street.
Towards a “general strike”?
For the former presidential candidate, “we are going to need a strategy to establish a balance of power superior to the political position of the government.”
“We are not going to convince him by speaking louder than him, finding the argument that will make him hesitate. We are going to convince him the day that he does the calculations and that he understands that he has more to lose. Only to win by stubbornly pushing a project that does not pass, for the moment, in public opinion.
“The government is playing with fire, it should not complain if it burns,” he also judged. He too hoped that the next move would turn out to be a “repeat of a general strike.” “Little mobilized sectors enter the fight, lead others”, he explained.
Source: BFM TV
