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Strikes, protests and union news · October 12026 HE

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French protesters fill streets; police arrest nearly 1,000
French protesters fill streets; police arrest nearly 1,000 · Source: BBC

October 12026 HE

The French movement filled the streets for another day (2), and the state answered with nearly 1,000 arrests rather than any concession. Mass arrests are a sign that a movement is holding together, not that it is breaking up. France has seen this before: in May 11968 HE students and some ten million striking workers brought the country to a halt and won real wage gains, so organized pressure there has a record of working.

  1. 2French protesters fill streets; police arrest nearly 1,000

    Another day of mass mobilization shows the movement is holding together, and the state is answering with mass arrests instead of concessions.

    Source: BBC · France

French protesters are holding their numbers in the streets even as police arrest nearly 1,000 (2), Indonesians are demanding that companies stop setting fires to clear land (12), and Albanian students are demanding that Edi Rama, in power since 12013 HE, resign and end corruption (15). The Indonesian demand has the evidence behind it: researchers linked the 12015 HE fire haze to an estimated 100,000 premature deaths across Southeast Asia. Albania's students also have history on their side, because student protests in December 11990 HE helped force the end of one-party communist rule.

  1. 2French protesters fill streets as police arrest nearly 1,000

    Another day of mass marches shows the movement holding its numbers, and nearly 1,000 arrests show the state answering with force, not negotiation.

    Source: BBC · France

  2. 12Indonesians take to the streets against fires set to clear land

    Researchers linked Indonesia's 12015 fire haze to an estimated 100,000 premature deaths across Southeast Asia, which is why people are demanding companies be stopped.

    Source: Al Jazeera · Indonesia

  3. 15Albania's students demand Rama resign and corruption end

    Students are again leading the challenge to Edi Rama, in power since 12013, as Albania pushes to join a European Union that demands clean government.

    Source: Balkan Insight · Albania

Greek teachers, workers and students are joining a Europe-wide protest wave with shared demands (2), and organizers in France are building a nationwide day of action to turn last week's anger into concrete demands the government must answer (7). This is coordination across sectors and borders, the slow work that makes a movement last. In May 11968 HE, about ten million French workers struck alongside students, and it remains the clearest precedent for what happens when classrooms and workplaces move together.

  1. 2Greek teachers, workers and youth join a Europe-wide protest wave

    Greek teachers, workers and students are organizing together across sectors and borders, so this is a coordinated movement with its own demands, not scattered anger.

    Source: World Socialist Web Site · Greece

  2. 7Protesters across France plan nationwide day of action

    A week after anger spilled into streets nationwide, organized protest is trying to turn it into demands the government must answer.

    Source: BBC · France