Posted on 05/01/2023 7:55:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS, May 1 (Reuters) - French police clashed with black-clad anarchists in Paris and other big cities during trade union-organised protests against President Emmanuel Macron's increase in the retirement age, as workers joined Labour Day rallies across Europe.
In the French capital, police were pelted with projectiles, ride-sharing bicycles were torched and bus stops smashed up just as the union-led march got underway from the central Place de la Republique.
Unrest also erupted in Lyon, where several vehicles were set ablaze and some business premises were trashed, television images showed. In Nantes in western France, a fire blazed in front of a local administration building.
In Paris, Extinction Rebellion activists threw paint over the glass-fronted facade of the Louis Vuitton Foundation and paving stones outside the Ritz Hotel.
Elsewhere in Europe, union-led protests were planned across Germany. In Italy, the three main unions held a rally in the southern city of Potenza protesting against a labour package approved by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's rightist government.
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French police clashed and fought back with baguettes....
Hey, it’s May Day, aka International Socialist/Communist Day! Let’s burn it all down! /sarc
If they’re actually wearing uniforms just start shooting the MFers.
What’s hard about that?
“ride-sharing bicycles were torched and bus stops smashed up”
That’ll show em’. Power to the people, the struggle never ends! /sarc
Atlanta recently had a greater than company-sized assault on the construction site for a public safety training center (”Cop City”). Probably around 150 black-clad Antifa involved. Included assaults on cops guarding the site. Burned up an expensive piece of construction equipment or two. The cops arrested nearly three dozen, only two were from GA. I challenged the AG to go find the organizers and financiers. And I only half-jokingly commented here that there was a belt-fed solution to the problem.
Kill a commie for mommy.
Joseph McCarthy was on the right track. No wonder he was and is hated by so many.
I don’t think that anarchists marching in to support socialism know what socialism really means.
France was this close to going full Stalinist after WWII.
What amazes me is that Socialism/Communism appeals to so many when history shows that it fails everywhere it is tried, and is directly responsible for the death of millions.
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