Protesters marching near the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris this week.
"PARIS — A bright red tapestry featuring the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara over the words 'Onward toward victory!' exhorts strikers not to give up, in the union’s dingy local headquarters. Outside, the local’s boss shouted through a megaphone at the Gare de Lyon train station: 'The rich should never forget: There will always be the sweat of the poor on their money!' The transportation strike against the French government’s pension overhaul plan is already the longest in the country’s history. As it entered its sixth week on Thursday, thousands of protesters again took to the streets all over France. Who stands to gain and lose in the pensions overhaul demanded by President Emmanuel Macron is debated every day. Nobody agrees on the details. ..."
NY Times
Support for the strike, which was initially high, is waning.
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