"Industry is a victim of the State's resignation": interview with Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT

On the eve of the Workers' Rights Day, Sophie Binet criticizes the executive's industrial policy , while the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) has counted more than 360 layoff plans. At the SNCF and in the civil service , the month of May will be marked by strikes, while the executive is planning 40 billion euros in budgetary savings . A major day of interprofessional mobilization is planned for the beginning of June.

Is this May ^1st mobilization the first march of a social spring?

On this International Workers' Rights Day, millions of us around the world will mobilize to confront the challenge to the world order by a far-right international organization seeking to impose its warlike logic. This Thursday, we will demand peace and social justice.

And we will demonstrate our rejection of competition from a far right that exploits identity divisions to leave employers alone. Finally, we will announce a date for interprofessional mobilization in early June, which will focus on the repeal of pension reform, on wages and employment.

Centrist senators have tabled a bill to allow bakeries and florists to open on May 1st. What's behind this attack on...