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    French trade union leaders attend a demonstration in Paris on February 7, 2023.

    French Workers Erupt Again to Fight Macron's Assault on Pensions

    "Retirement should be a second life, not a waiting room for death," said one pensioner.

    Kenny Stancil
    Feb 07, 2023

    For the third time in less than a month, hundreds of thousands of workers across France participated Tuesday in strikes and rallies to protest President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to force people to work longer before they qualify for a full pension.

    The latest nationwide mobilization against Macron's assault on French retirement benefits brought at least 750,000 people to the streets, with turnout lower than on January 19 and January 31. Tuesday's walkouts and marches came one day after the National Assembly began debating legislation that would raise France's official retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030.

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    ​Protesters march in Paris on January 31, 2023.

    "Citizens' Insurrection": Huge Protests in France Aim to Kill Macron Pension Plan

    "It's not often that we see such a mass mobilization," said leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 31, 2023

    Hundreds of thousands of enraged workers across France walked off the job and hit the streets Tuesday to protest President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to raise the nation's official retirement age from 62 to 64.

    It marks the second time this month that French workers have mobilized against Macron's attack on the country's pension system. Nationwide strikes and marches on January 19 brought out between one million and two million people, and labor unions aimed to match or exceed those numbers on Tuesday, with roughly 250 demonstrations planned around the country.

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    Progressive International general coordinator David Adler speaks at the Havana Congress on the New International Economic Order in Cuba on January 27, 2023.

    Havana Declaration Outlines Vision for Building Just World Economy

    "What is the common vision to guide the Global South out of this crisis?" asked the Progressive International. "What is the plan to win it?"

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 30, 2023

    Delegates to the Havana Congress on the New International Economic Order—a gathering organized by the Progressive International and attended by more than 50 scholars and policymakers from 26 countries across all six inhabited continents—agreed over the weekend on a declaration that outlines a "common vision" for building an egalitarian and sustainable society out of the wreckage of five decades of neoliberal capitalism.

    "The crisis of the existing world system can either entrench inequalities," the declaration asserts, or it can "embolden" popular movements throughout the Global South to "reclaim" their role as protagonists "in the construction of a new world order based on justice, equity, and peace."

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