Emergency-department staff at Saint-Antoine begin an open-ended strike

The CGT’s national mobilization brought Yellow Vest demonstrators into the same streets as union members, students, teachers and postal workers. The day tested whether a Saturday-based,...

Bondy Blog published an interview with political scientist Julien Talpin on the barriers to civic participation in working-class neighborhoods. The discussion challenged the idea that low visible...

France Nature Environnement Grand Est and local associations ask the Vosges prefect to stop or revise Nestlé’s water withdrawals around Vittel, citing pressure on local aquifers and the priority of...

Students and school pupils joined the first large global youth climate strike, with marches in Paris and many other French cities. The mobilization drew on school strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg...

The March of the Century brought climate organizations and Yellow Vest participants into a shared mobilization for social and environmental justice. In Paris, organizers connected the climate crisis...

Attac activist Geneviève Legay, a 73-year-old participant in a Yellow Vest gathering in Nice, was badly injured during a police charge. The incident led to conflicting public accounts, video...

The second Assembly of Assemblies met at the Maison du Peuple in Saint-Nazaire, drawing delegations from across France. Participants adopted a call for direct democracy, local assemblies, solidarity...

Journalist and Taranis News founder Gaspard Glanz was arrested while covering the Yellow Vest demonstration in Paris. Prosecutors later imposed a restriction that barred him from Paris on Saturdays...

Groups of Yellow Vests, climate marchers and young climate activists organized the “Spring of Change” in Verdun. Reporterre described a small turnout and a convergence that had not yet taken broad...

Yellow Vest groups joined the traditional May Day demonstration in Paris alongside union contingents and other activists. Politis reported on the complex mix of participants and on the government’s...