From Al-Jazeera…
The French government has struck a pension deal with the FGAAC, the main train drivers’ union.
The Friday deal is said to have created a split between labour groups, the day after a national strike halted most rail traffic in the country.
There was still disruption on Friday and the RATP, the Paris transport authority, [...]

Photos by Paul Schemm…
Outside the Centre Pompidou, France’s national modern art museum, the square is filled with performance artists, breathing fire, dressed like statues and even involving onlookers in impromptu plays. One man would put on classical music, tie a blindfold around his head and then paint pictures Che Guevara from behind the easel. [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
A strike by rail and energy workers in France to protest against the government’s new pension plans has crippled bus, underground and rail services across the country.
Initially meant to be a one-day strike on Thursday, it has been extended by another day.
The strike is seen as the first major challenge to changes put [...]

La Haine…

André Gorz passed away four days ago… He will be remembered for many things, but for me, a story I read about when I was a student will always pop out each time I hear his name mentioned…

In the 1968 Socialist Register he began his article, ‘The working class will neither unite politically nor [...]

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Where are the quotation marks?! The Associated Press still insists on refering to the Arab dictatorships as “moderates”… Bravo ya AP!
The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco held their first publicly disclosed talks in years Wednesday, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the heart of the discussion.
In separate meetings, French officials pressed Israel to take the [...]

Give him hell…
After the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France there have been successive protests each night, mostly ending in confrontation with the police.
The has been a lot of unrest in France and yesterday; at an general meeting (AG) students at Tolbiac in Paris voted to go on strike and occupy the university. [...]

While much of the media sees the presidential elections as a return to “mainstream” politics in France, the true picture is more complicated, explains Alex Callinicos.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the article…

What could one expect from a country of racist/corrupt/asshole butchers like Sarkouzi and Le Pen, except this…
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, [...]