[ad_1]
SOCIAL MOVEMENT – The Yellow Vests have called for a new demonstration Saturday, December 1 in the capital. This mobilization will be rallied by a collective from disadvantaged neighborhoods, and will coincide with other gatherings, including that of the CGT. Convergence or contingency?
– The drafting of LCI
Will yellow and red come together on Saturday, December 1st, Place de la République? As Yellow Vests continue to mobilize with a third demonstration this weekend in the capital, the movement will coexist for the first time with other planned gatherings, sometimes in the same place.
For the time being, some yellow vests have declared to the police headquarters to demonstrate on the Place de la République, and between the Madeleine and Republic. However, no statement was made Thursday, November 29, for a gathering on the Champs-Elysees, as during the wild demonstration of November 24 which turned to the clash with the police.
The Place de la République is already the heart of another mobilization, scheduled since 20 November by the CGT. The union calls for a mobilization at noon to defend the "unemployed" and bend the policy of the government, before the procession moves to the headquarters of Unedic, in the 12th arrondissement.
The union's appeal is singularly broad. It is aimed at "all citizens, active or retired employees", and aims in particular to require an increase in Smic, a claim that converges with a portion of yellow vests. Too broad for Force Ouvrière, who does not wish to participate in the movement because this call "to the citizens and not only to the workers" "leaves the union framework".
What allow to envisage a convergence between the two movements? It would not be automatic. Admittedly, a mobilization organized on November 29 on a motorway interchange in Creteil (Val-de-Marne) was mixed yellow vests and "red vests" of the union. But the list of claims Yellow Vests is not necessarily compatible with that of the CGT. "It's a protean movement, there are demands that do not resonate with ours," said Benjamin Amar, CGT manager of Val-de-Marne with LCI. "But there are some that resonate, on the need to increase wages, on the fight against tax evasion.It is our responsibility to build the mobilization."
Defiance in yellow vests
The general secretary of the CGT Philippe Martinez also estimated, in the perspective of Saturday, that "there is nothing to prevent that there are red vests next to the yellow vests", despite obvious differences on several topics – including the general decline in taxes, employer charges or the end of the special schemes claimed by some yellow vests.
Moreover, the unions, like the politicians – Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the PCF should participate in the demonstration Vests yellow Saturday – are still very cautious. They know that the prospect of a proper recovery remains particularly frowned upon within this movement. One of the coordinators of the movement, Eric Drouet, explained that the Yellow Vests were eager to find spokesmen "in a hurry, so that it is not recovered by a party or a union."
It prevents. In the provinces, some professional unions – especially firefighters (SPP-PATS) or road hauliers in Normandy – have already announced their intention to accompany some demonstrators. In Nice, students are trying to mobilize via social networks under the name of "Young Vests", to rally the protesters around questions about their professional future.
In Paris, a movement totally outside that of the Yellow Vests, the Adama collective (created by the relatives of Adama Traoré, who died during an arrest in July 2016), announced that he would join the demonstration because, he says "Popular neighborhoods face the same social issues as rural or peri-urban areas".
Other events will coincide with these movements, Saturday, in the capital, but a priori no direct relationship: the students, at the call of the Fage, the majority union, mobilized against the rise in registration fees for foreigners and the removal of posts in the National Education, on the Place du Pantheon; and the anti-racist group Rosa Parks, which plans to surrender Saturday afternoon from the Nation to the Republic Square. Whatever the motives, there will be people in the streets of Paris this weekend.
The LCI editorial
Update :
created:
[ad_2]
Source link
