Tuesday, May 3, 2011

J'ARRIVE

After a long flight from Atlanta, and some rather bad food courtesy of AirFrance, we are here at our pied a terre in Paris. The big news here is that the streets are filled with piled up garbage -- there is a strike on, of course. I have no idea what that is all about.

On the flight over, I spent some time reading LIBERATION, the newspaper of the Socialist Party. There was a long story about Marine le Pen, the new leader of the far right Nationalist Party [and daughter of its founder.] This is the new face of fascism in France, and very disturbing. I shall try to say something about it in the next day or two.


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2 comments:

  1. PhersvMay 3, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    It's a strike of the agents municipaux of the city against reforms of wages and retirement laws. See there.

    National newspapers do not seem to mention it.

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  2. Robert Paul WolffMay 3, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Thank you. That makes sense. So it is, in a sense, fallout from the attempt by Sarkozy to revise these agreements nationally.

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