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The Ministry of National Education has introduced a new compulsory ceremony for November 11 in all schools starting with the CM1, in honour of all "deaths for France". Some trade unions oppose this and call for a boycott, denouncing a "glorification of war".
Facing the hundreds of thousands of French people on the streets on Thursday to demand an increase in their purchasing power, Sébastien Lecornu announced a social conference Monday with trade unions and employers.
The purchasing power and the precariousness are also the struggles brought on this Thursday 5 November, day of inter-union strike. In France, according to INSEE, 9.8% of French people are below the poverty line (2024). Social justice is called for, in solution, the demonstrators propose the taxation of the ultra-rich. The Secours populaire, claims that 26 per cent of French people feel they are in a precarious situation.
Already a "success" of the mobilization of Thursday 5 November for the unions: strikes for various social causes had gathered hundreds of thousands of people outside the Paris region at midday, putting pressure on the government to concede a significant increase in the SMIC and the suppression of Parcoursup among others. The explanations of Marc Perelman, political columnist in France 24.
In France, employees, civil servants, trade unions and high school students are mobilized this Thursday 5 November for a day of national strike. France 24 went to the Lycée Le Corbusier, in #Aubervilliers, where the blockage of students took place since 7:30 a.m.
