France has a long history of left-wing activism. It's where the original left-right division was formulated, it had one of the first socialist revolutions in the short-lived Paris commune, it never suffered from Soviet-style communism and wasn't as affected as the anglosphere by the neoliberal wave of Thatcher-Reagan. But while Macron certainly isn't Le Pen, he is definitely a technocratic neoliberal in the vein of Thatcher and Reagan and has been trying to curtail workers' rights in the eternal quest for shareholder value, as well as clamping down on left-wing and anti-capitalist movements such as the ZAD( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrtUkBmv8s ).
I've always been anti-communist, but as an absolute royalist think leftism should be embraced on the social and economic issues, so applaud their resistance.
what French and strikes are as synonymous as italians are to pasta and iberian countries is to siesta...
Do Latin American countries still practice the custom of the siesta?
From my life experience, we don't have "siesta-time"in Puerto Rico. If Puertoricans ever had siesta time it may have been before USA took over from Spain in 1898.
In a world where Amazon staff have to piss in bottles if they want to meet their quotas at a 10-hour, minimum wage job, I'm surprised this is just a French thing.
Why are there so many strikes in France, anyway?It feels like that would be the case for the Japanese too.That's from having so much dissatisfaction, isn't it?
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