Fury over policing tactics has changed dimension of protests against plan to raise retirement age
The depth of the domestic crisis facing Emmanuel Macron can be measured by the growing university barricades and packed student assemblies where angry young people have gathered in recent days to intensify protests and help teenage high-school pupils blockade their lycées.
Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.
Protests rage after the French leader bypassed opposition and used a special constitutional power to raise the retirement age.
French riot police used batons, tear gas and water cannons to clear demonstrators from a central Paris square where a crowd of thousands had gathered to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform.
![French firefighters during a demonstration near Place de la Concorde in Paris after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote on March 16, 2023 [Thomas Samson/AFP]](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/screenshot_2023-03-17_103052.png?itok=6B8ikdxj)
