Public-sector workers, rail staff and students strike and march

The French government announced that it would not build the long-contested airport. Decades of resistance included legal challenges, local organizing, farmer actions and the ZAD experiment in...

Teachers, bus workers and residents mobilized over insecurity and violence affecting schools and transport. The protests widened into a strike and broader criticism of public-service conditions and...

Police evacuate the forest occupation at Bois Lejuc. The eviction ends a major phase of territorial occupation, while the wider movement continues legal challenges, public gatherings and opposition to...

A gathering in support of opponents of Cigéo faces police restrictions and force after the February eviction. The episode raises questions about public assembly and policing in a sparsely populated...

Municipalities, schools, services and businesses closed as a broad strike and roadblock campaign continued. The action connected immediate concerns over safety to demands for public investment and...

Rail unions began a schedule of rolling strikes opposing changes to the state railway company, including ending special employment terms for new hires and opening services to competition. The...

The Paris March of Solidarities brought migrant-rights groups, sans-papiers and allies into the streets against the government’s asylum and immigration bill. A Commons-archived video by the...

After the government abandoned plans for a new airport, police began clearing occupied areas at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The ZAD had grown from opposition to the airport into a broad experiment in...

The collective “Zéro personne à la rue” requisitioned an unoccupied house in Brest and opened it as a home for unaccompanied young exiles. Basta! reported the action while the national asylum bill was...

A march organized by the Auberge des migrants began at the French-Italian border town of Vintimille and headed toward London, following routes taken by people seeking to cross borders. Basta! later...