“This social movement can open the way to a return to mobilizations that come out of the defensive register predominant for several decades” | EUROtoday

HASVec the day of inter -union motion of September 18 – greater than 500,000 demonstrators all through France in response to the Ministry of the Interior, double in response to the CGT -,, The organizations of the world of labor revive the mobilization capacities that that they had demonstrated throughout the first half of 2023 within the face of the invoice on pensions which, nonetheless, had not managed to know success. Today’s scenario is completely different in some ways.

First of all, strikes and demonstrations summoned Thursday, September 18 articulate with the watchword “Let’s block everything” of September 10, arose social networks. Despite the prevention displayed in comparison with the latter by sure confederations, notably the CFDT, quite than making use of a disjunction between these two dates, it appears extra coherent to apprehend them collectively.

The “Septembriste” motion struck the calendar initially imagined by the inter -union, which, with out it, was quite half to think about mobilization in late September or early October. Without showing in its wake, the thrill round September 10 has undoubtedly satisfied the inter -union, bringing collectively eight organizations, to advance its passage to motion. Especially since skilled and territorial constructions of a number of organizations – CGT, Solidaires, FSU and FO – additionally determined to speculate the digital public area.

Favorable context

In addition, the day of September 10, with out being a mass motion like that of September 18, provided the latter a degree of assist, by arousing a dynamic starting which contributed to its success. Because the decision to dam every thing was not the failure introduced by the Minister of the Interior resigning Bruno Retailleau. Admittedly, France was not blocked, specifically because of a unprecedented system for sustaining order, which was renewed on September 18. But this watchword has gathered twice as many contributors than visiting territorial data. And if we take the excessive vary given by unions from assist, 250,000 to 300,000 individuals, this mobilization has figures akin to these of a motion which initially self -build on social networks, that of “yellow vests”.

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