The protest against the pension reform continues on Sunday, January 21, with a march organized by the main left-wing youth organizations.
But who is organizing the social protest against the pension reform? Demonstrations and strikes are initiated by the trade unions and they have hammered it enough for the political parties to comply with the slogan. It is therefore the eight French unions, with the CGT and the CDFT in the front line, which set the tone. The big social event of the week is therefore the strike of January 19, and this will be followed by other national strikes. The left-wing parties have all made it known that they will follow the instructions of the union leaders.
But other initiatives are to be taken into account by those who wish to oppose the government’s project, starting with the march of January 21, organized in Paris by left-wing high school and student associations, of which here is the exhaustive list: L ‘Alternative, FIDL, Voix Lycéenne, Jeune Garde, Le Massicot, Young Struggle, Young Ecologists, Young Generations, Young Rebellious, NPA Young, NPA Anticapitalist Youth, Young Left Party, Young POI, Young Public Place, RED Young, UFSE CGT. This march on Saturday January 21 is also supported by political parties, including La France Insoumise, which is in fact the main relay.
Where is the march on Saturday January 21 organized?
The organizers of the event meet with the demonstrators on Saturday January 21 at 2 p.m. on the Place de la Bastille. It should be noted that a logistical system has been planned to bring all those who want to participate by bus to Paris, from several provincial towns.
An inevitable flop?
The march supported by insubordinate France comes just two days after the major strike movement of January 19. Difficult to imagine that this mobilizes more or remobilizes all those who demonstrated two days earlier. And although the political leaders of the LFI insist on the merits of an echo of the first demonstration, a form of resignation is also reflected in the lack of coordination of the protest. An indiscretion of The Dispatch on this subject, lifts the veil on the latent tensions on the left: “This march comes like a horse in the soup, with its big hooves …”, would have launched Fabien Roussel, the leader of the Communist Party, a few days ago.