On January 31st, France saw widespread strikes as workers across the country took to the streets to protest against the government’s proposed pension reforms.

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46 thoughts on “French national strikes against pension reforms continue despite police repression”
  1. Dear France, and the rest of the planet… this is EXACTLY why you should NEVER trust government with anything you value. They force you to accept their contracts, but are under no obligation to fill those contracts. At least in the private sector, you can sue for breach of contract.

  2. Citizens fight for their fundamental rights 🇫🇷✊🏻 impeachment for macron 👎🏻⚖️⛓️

  3. Oh! Ya poor people don't wanta work while the government people live cushy lives?#welcome to america! Sarcasticly.🤷‍♀️fight!💪strong.😉💖& be careful.they have guns& you don't. 😎

  4. These snobbish French people take month long vacations, social welfare and crying about an extension/ additional of 750 days to their retirement age .

  5. Can't blame these people for standing up to the wealthy attempting to steal from their middle class. We didn't do that here in America, and now I'm lucky if I can retire by the age of 67. And look at how our middle class has dissolved. It's not quite there, but we aren't far off of everyone being either massively wealthy, or struggling for peanuts. Good on the French for standing up and fighting this shit early on. I wish I had been old enough to understand what was being taken from me when it happened. And the fact that they grandfathered in my parents to cull protest is telling. Do this to us at such a young age, and grandfather in anyone old enough to fight back on that. Such a load of horse shit. I want to leave this country so bad. Land of the free, what a fucking joke. We're the land of illusion of choice, and corporate slavery.

  6. See how makeup guy spouts nonsense, his first concern was government do not listen about citizens concerns of climate change..
    The " citizens of France" would rather freeze then warm their homes. They do not care for the elderly or children who will suffer in the cold,, But they c/o if they have to work 2 more years.. hahahahaha its laughable the brainwashing they have gone through.
    They are paid slaves and do not even realize it.

  7. I do not feel sorry for them at all. They could if had le Penn, but they chose tyranny. So now they got what they voted for. And seriously if u asked them do they wish they would of voted for Penn, they would say No, cause they are so brainwashed, they rather freeze, starve, work past old age, w a tyrannical nwo puppet then vote for a person who would of dedicated her life for their freedoms and way of life.
    They have been brainwashed to believe in the NWO, WHO, CDC, that they are victims.. its pathetic to watch

  8. Stay strong, stand for freedom and democracy. Human rights to France .GOD BLESS FREEDOM FIGHTERS UNITED AROUND THE WORLD. WE ARE WITH YOU! FAIR TREATMENT & DIGNITY

  9. The USA has this problem too. Reforms of the 1980's prevented insolvency, we must soon do them again so that today's young people will have pensions as well. Reforms without sacrifices is popular but unattainable. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for and pay for what you get. I wish France the best possible outcome.

  10. Marie le pen und dann viva la franc setzt den Präsidenten ab,er schickt euer Geld sowiso in die Ukraine,wie der ganze Westen,wies dem eigenen Volk geht,intressiert die Regierung nicht. Zitat Bärbock egal was meine Wähler denken…
    😁

  11. This is the result of a completely misalignment of the government and the citizens of a country.
    Not only France.
    Listen to these people talking. They don't ask for gold, not for Rolex and Ferarri's.
    All they want is a reasonable pension… for their kids and beyond.
    Here I come to my second point…. Another thing that is not exclusdive for France.
    In the past, when I was young. Yeah, yeah that was a number of years ago, I can remember that governments planned 10,15, 20 years ahead.
    Nowadays it is okay when they make it through to the next elections.

  12. I want to donate but don't have a credit card.

    The Dutch are starting to wake up. Public transport and sanitary workers are striking. Unfortunately, the FNV is corrupt like American unions and is more pro employers than employees. A spokesperson gave a fairy tale description of the situation of the sanitary workers in the Netherlands. Making it look that they have job security and good pay, they don't. Thanks to the UNEMPLOYMENT industry that is destroyed. To fight unemployment the government came up with a scheme to help employers exploit employees and create more unemployment and working poor. The many many blessing of neo liberalism.

  13. You have to applaud the French for their tenacity, next step is to identify thoes members of the police who have not demonstrated restraint and hold them individually accountable once the dust settles, thugs in uniform.

  14. No,no, no r u all in dope? My French breads u r doing everything wrong,u r marching n protesting the stupid way u oppressor would never going to listen to you needs n fact they never care by u sorry lescargots.. u all need to use u brain u r wasting u encephalic mass..here is the solution my parisine ladies n builders of the effiel..you all need to go on strike,stop everything don't move a finger don't buy nothing no gas no food no school no work no produce n no alcohol,this my frenchprietos make any oppressor on the world feel helpless,see he can beat u or send u to jail for doing nothing…but he is loosing moneyyyy..😠.. yes my divine comedy sons,money talk bull shit walk…so there is u solution…

  15. The protests may be working as the lower government in parliament is debating the retirement age as we speak and Macron may be challenged.

  16. I am not sure what the problem is. In the USA and Canada, retirement age is normally 65, for govt pensions anyway. I am on pensions in Canada, will be 66 next ,month, March 2023, always lived in the USA and Canada, and have always known/learned that govt pensions begin at age 65. France is a whole other matter, and I guess that the problem is due to politics in that country. I do not have information about it, so …..

  17. All your younger years and good health are used up working, then get to an age where you think you can enjoy the fruits of your labor then they make you work even longer, if you even live that long, so what about manual laborers like road workers, scaffolders, hod carriers etc, how they gonna get on, its ok for politicians who sit in there parliaments at 65 yrs old falling asleep while getting paid, RESPECTS TO THE FRENCH FOR SHOWING SOLIDARITY AND MINERALS ✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌

  18. It's what they get for going fully commie massive union you give away all your rights and money to government and huge orgs what you think gonna happen….

  19. Will it work? Or will they go home to find their heat turned off? In two years, their leaders will be trying to make their workers more like American workers – lowest paid per capita than other developed nations. The rich want a permanently indebted working class. Shred the rich, save the world.

  20. There seems to be solidarity in France even the young are turning out, we don't have that here not sure why but for what I have learned watching podcast is there seems to be more vibrant left in France than in America, 2 my guess and only mine is that the Democratic part pins us against each other

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