ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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The yellow vests and the erosion of trade union strength
‘Social mobilisation is no longer carried out by the left and trade unions alone,’ French CGT activist Karl Ghazi tells the Rosa Luxemburg conference in Berlin. BEN CHACKO reports
Women sing against French President Emmanuel Macron on a pensions strike demo on Saturday
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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron’s government has blinked in its five-week standoff with the French trade unions.
It has offered to withdraw proposals to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 if they call off strikes.
Following demonstrations that have brought as many as 800,000 people onto the streets on the biggest days, the retreat is a victory — and the CFDT and UNSA union federations have already welcomed it.
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