From the announcement of François Bayrou to request a vote of confidence on September 8, 2025 and the risk of parliamentarians repudiated, the movement “Block everything” has taken a new round. Run only a few months ago, online, it intends to “block France” as a “general strike” on September 10. A way of meaning the desire to let the country stop.
This mobilization day imagined at the base of social networks has been taken by several political and union organizations, including the rebellious France and the National Rally.
A movement born at the end right
In the origins of the project, which shares the institutions, a Tiktok account called “Les Essentialles”. The latter introduces himself as a sovereign group, born in northern France, and who wants the “Frexit”, that the country leaves the European Union.
The call was launched last spring without complying with any echo in particular, before others take the project and imagine that the movement “blocks everything”, which essentially communicates in Telegram with several thousand subscribers: “They despair us, we respond,” we also launch in a message greatly transmitted on social networks.
“We are outraged,” who joined this mobilization, has the idea of offering several solutions to be heard better. In addition, it focuses a lot on the left, since it seems to demonstrate its vocabulary and its ideas in favor of a better distribution of the budgetary efforts that Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou wish to establish.
The fact is that the two groups met with a common goal and wish “maximum mobilization”, carefully avoiding political or union figures. The dawn of a new movement of “yellow vests” stands out largely to lead to “apolitical” proposals that move traditional festivities.
The conspirators took over
However, this did not prevent the fine flower of the conspiracy from joining this movement, including groups affiliated with “Qanon”, this cryptic movement follows the theories of conspiracy and supported by Donald Trump. In Telegram, Qanon France also called to “stop everything”: “It is too much, from billions to large companies, social plans everywhere, public services that collapse. We stop everything. Strikes, blockages, local actions, let’s be thousands to say stop.”
However, the specific message is “without a label” but, nevertheless, calls the unions to “join the call to the strike.”
However, the catalyst for this movement will be the budget ads of François Bayrou, with savings of several tens of billions of euros provided by the government. It was at the beginning of the summer of 2025 that “blocking everything” became viral enough to become a real political issue. The media, which until now has not been interested in the movement, will transmit the calls of citizens or old yellow vests.
The statements also become more radical, especially by “essential” that wish to achieve “general confinement” or “citizen” for several days or weeks.
An appeal that is still gaining impulse when the rebel France demands the mobilization of citizens for the voice of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on August 16. The arrival at the sand of the triple presidential candidate changes the situation, even if Philippe Poutou, of the NPA, had slipped from August 3. As you notice the world, the Canal of Essentials telegram becomes the object of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of the centers of extreme and the end “. Therefore, now we are very far from an” apolitical “movement.
The hashtag research data and the keyword “block everything”, but also on the date of September 10, show a strong increase in the interest of the French for this mobilization from the position of political leaders. In Tiktok, there are videos in several million visits, in particular those of an influencer that specifies the methods of a strike for employees.
The visibrain cabinet also explains that around the keywords “September 10, 2025” and “Let’s block everything”, we also find the classic record of the current political challenge, with in particular François Bayrou, Emmanuel Macron, but also “Macron detaches” and “Macron Sestetal”.
A protein movement pressed by foreign countries
However, the multiplication of the groups, the so -called policies or not, does not allow specifically quantifying the scope of the broadcast messages. If the arrival of political parties and unions in this battle has certainly changed the situation, it is difficult to know if the movement will really continue, although it occurs in the mid -return week.
To this is added foreign interference. When asked about the subject, the Vigino teams, the Surveillance and Protection Service against foreign digital interference, confirm “amplifications” specifically linked to September 10 of foreign countries. Several countries are cited, including Russia and Iran, who seek opportunities to transmit messages that can lead to the destabilization of institutions.
Compared to other important events, such as presidential or legislative elections, “let’s block everything”, it seems above all transmitted by extreme right and extreme left accounts, and conspirators. Antoine Bristielle, researcher of Political Science and director of the opinion observatory of the Jean Jaurès Foundation also indicated in the world, on September 1, after having conducted an online study with 1089 people, that this movement seems more carried out by a “strong politicization on the left and a desire for commitment to others.”
False accounts to accelerate the trend
According to the specialized visibrain firm, the “Astroturbing” operation, the false accounts that transmit the same message are also underway, particularly in X. One of the incriminated accounts, therefore, publishes up to more than 1,000 tweets per day by placing modern keywords in the movement.
“These false accounts have greatly contributed to the ‘reinforcement’ of the movement and to give greater visibility,” explains Thierry Herrant, an expert in public communication. “Let’s take the hashtag #bloquonsout, for example: the 15 most transmitted messages come from false suspicious accounts (very), representing 3/4 tweets and associated retweets. Obviously, this additional visibility in X has produced its effect.”
It is not enough to scare the political forces that have now taken over this mobilization. Insoumise France published its gallery asking to support the movement, later supported by the Communist Party and the Ecologists. It was then the CGT who was the most listened to with a call to “build the strike whenever possible” once the Confederal National Committee met, which validated this goal.
Compared to the yellow vests, who had seen hundreds of thousands of people who gathered around a life considered “too expensive”, the “we block everything” movement occupies certain codes, including the absence of structure and the spontaneity of their reasoning. He hopes to do at least as well as in 2018. It remains to be seen if the vote of confidence requested by François Bayrou, and what could lead to the end of his government, and de facto, when the debates stop with the 2026 budget, will not kill in the egg a possible mass mobilization of citizens.
Source: BFM TV
