Largest Strike in Decades

National Strike Halts France

By Daily Mail —— Bio and Archives December 5, 2019

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More than half a million demonstrators marched on cities throughout France today, with railway workers, teachers and hospital staff joining the largest strike in decades. Authorities in Paris barricaded the presidential palace and deployed some 6,000 police as activists, many in yellow vests, gathered for a major march aimed at forcing President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his pension reform plans. -- More...

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