Video: Brian Becker interview on RT
French workers and students fight back
If they can do it, we can too
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Brian Becker, a PSL leader and national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, speaks about mass protests and strikes sweeping France to protest new austerity measures. |
Right now, millions of public and private sector workers, students and others are taking to the streets in cities across France. They are taking aim at the French government’s pledge to raise the retirement age for workers and other so-called austerity measures.
The heroic demonstrations and strikes, including the blockade of fuel terminals, has virtually shut down the country. Transportation services, businesses, media outlets and banks have been crippled by militant mass protests.
The struggles facing workers in the United States are the same as those in Europe and around the world. The bankers and politicians want to make us pay for an economic crisis caused by the bankers and corporate elites.
Over 30 million people in the United States are unemployed. The wages of part-time workers have been slashed in the last year.
While the capitalist banks and corporations are making record profits, the poverty rate has reached a new high point. Young people are being forced out of college because of tuition increases. This is a crisis of capitalism, but it is working families who are shouldering the burden.
From Greece to France, workers and students are fighting back. We can too.
Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation Nov. 13 and 14 in Los Angeles for a National Conference on Socialism. It will be filled with political organizing sessions, discussion, entertainment and exciting presentations, including from some special guest speakers. Above all, it will be a unique opportunity to meet and spend time with revolutionary activists from around the country. Let’s build a fight back movement in the United States, while we show solidarity with workers and students in struggle abroad!
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