The wave of strikes and protests continues in the Trans-Atlantic over various specific issues, but all are actions against the worsening conditions of economic breakdown. In Germany today, the airports were shut in the three major cities of Hamburg, Duesseldorf, and Cologne/Bonn, by workers’ strikes. Tomorrow, a national railway shutdown is planned by rail workers.
In France, pop-up street protests have erupted in many places, after President Emanuel Macron signed his action a few days ago, ordering an extension of the retirement age. He was booed yesterday at his first appearance outside of Paris, and protests have included such actions as a temporary takeover of premises related to the Paris stock exchange. The “French spiderman” staged a 38-story building climb, and came down, to dramatize that Macron should get his head out of the clouds, and come back down to reality on Earth.
