On Sunday, thousands of people protested against rising costs in Paris’ streets after weeks of oil refinery worker strikes for higher salaries sparked calls for a nationwide strike.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the hard-left group La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), marched with Annie Ernaux, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. On Tuesday, he declared a countrywide strike.
We are the ones who started it with this march, he reminded the throng, so ‘you’re going to live a week like no other.’
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