France: Workers and students against Macron
France: Macron tries to speed up reforms, but meets strong opposition Macron – who owes his election to the elimination of any left or labour movement candidate in the 1st round of the Presidential election, against a backdrop of massive abstentionism – was able to force through his law against the Labour Code in Autumn 2017. That completed the El Khomri law, which inspired a strong mobilisation lasting more than four months under the Hollande Presidency in spring 2016. The trade union response didn't rise to the occasion, which was down to the strategy of the trade union leaderships, but also...