Police Attack French Print Sit-in
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Support continues to grow 100,000 French trade unionists in Paris and thousands in other cities took to the streets on 6th December to protest against the brutal police occupation of the newspaper 'Parisien Libere"
The police invasion followed a court finding in favour of the bosses and against the workers occupying the plant, as part of a two year old dispute with the anti-union management.
Most of France went without a daily paper as print workers and journalists struck in sympathy.
The unanimity and militancy of the action attests to a general wave of anger from the French working class against the anti-working class policies of the Giscard regime and Prime Minister Barre's policy of cutting real wages and creating unemployment.
Employers have torn up existing agreed wage contracts which don't fit the new wage control regulations. Electricity and postal workers have already begun strikes against the measures and many others are threatened.
The Stalinist leaders of the Communist Party union federation, the CGI, are forced to run as fast as their legs will carry them to appear to be still at the head of this wave of anger.
But though verbally opposing BRITAIN 6 issues • 12 issues 24 issues the Barre economic plan, they limit action to token strikes and explicitly reject any political offensive against the government.
Communist Party Political Bureau member Fiterand said "we do not believe in strikes as a political weapon. We are happy to wait for the proper election date.
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