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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 18h

🇵🇸 "Up up with liberation! Down down with occupation!" 🚩 Passing the Houses of Parliament during the 37th national march for Palestine, the Socialist Workers Party bloc chants support for Palestine resistance. Shame on Labour for its continuing complicity in Israeli genocide. buff.ly/BhT2QCX

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 19h

🚩 The Socialist Workers Party bloc on the 37th national march for Palestine passes the Houses of Parliament. 🇵🇸 Our banners read "Palestine will be free. Victory to the resistance" and "Free Palestine. Resist Israeli apartheid". buff.ly/BhT2QCX #FreePalestine #EndTheGenocide

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 20h

🗓️ On this day, 11 October, 1865: Start of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica Slavery’s abolition did not bring an end to colonial oppression. The struggle continued. As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important to remember the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. buff.ly/rhH4tlu

The Jamaica Insurrection: Volunteers firing on the mob. Illustration of Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 20h

🚩 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox Politics are increasingly polarised. Support for the political centre is ebbing away and flowing towards the parties of the far right and sometimes the far left. What is driving this polarisation? buff.ly/EioM2bX

Example of a demagog: Donald Trump (Photo: Gage Skidmore on flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 21h

🇵🇸 250,000: Palestine march shows movement’s breadth and radicalism The Palestine movement burst back onto the streets of London on Saturday as 250,000 people joined the 37th national demonstration in three years. Marchers spoke to Socialist Worker. buff.ly/Wg3kcXE

Marching for Palestine in London on 10 October 2026 (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🇵🇸 Trade unions rally in support of Filton 25 Palestine activists on trial Trade unionists gathered at Woolwich Crown Court in south London on Friday to support members of the Filton 25. Plus: Palestine activists slam Leicestershire police repression at Elbit Systems factory. buff.ly/O2CMFI8

Activists supporting the Filton 25 outside Woolwich Crown Court, with a banner reading "Disarm Israel. Stop funding genocide"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‼️ Settlers ramp up violence in West Bank village Israeli settlers attacked the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank once again this week as they try to steal more Palestinian land. 🇵🇸 Join the Palestine national demonstration in London, part of an international day of action. buff.ly/dmAYlMS

Armed Israeli settlers attempted to steal sheep from the villagers

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

✊🏽 India’s Cockroaches are back for a second bite A revived Cockroach youth movement is once again on the charge in India. A Cockroach activist explains why the Indian movement is attacking again. buff.ly/L80W1dv

View of student protestors at a Cockroach demonstration in India (Photo: WikipediaCommons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

✊🏽 Join the SWP bloc on the National Palestine Demonstration 11.30am Sat 10 October Victoria Embankment Gardens (SWP gazebo near tube entrance) This Saturday's demo marks - 3 years of genocide in Gaza - 3 years of UK government complicity - over 78 years of occupation #FreePalestine🇵🇸

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

✊🏽 ‘We confronted Restore Britain in Holborn & St Pancras — now you should too’ Stand Up To Racism senior researcher Richard Donnelly spoke to Socialist Worker. buff.ly/NdeWcOI

Anti-racists take on far right Restore Britain in Camden, north London (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

✉️ Letters: Students and striking university workers must unite to win Edinburgh University wants to cut 1,800 jobs and 93 programmes. The Socialist Worker Student Society has been on the staff UCU union picket lines every day, arguing why supporting trade unionists is vital. buff.ly/pptQYdm

A demonstration against cuts to Scottish universities outside Holyrood (Photo: ucuedinburgh.bsky.social/bsky)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📣 Camden traffic wardens block the road to outsourcing Working all weathers, facing daily abuse, risking their health, traffic wardens keep Camden running. Now, they’re going on strike. Jude Mckechnie spoke to the workers in north London leading the fightback against outsourcing. buff.ly/AlFJYQx

Striking Camden traffic wardens on the Unison picket line, with placards reading "Fair pay now" and "If our pay doesn't rise, we will. Together we rise!" (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚩 The SW View The EU’s true colours don’t shine in blue and gold — they bleed red Socialist Worker campaigned to leave the EU on internationalist and anti-racist "Lexit" grounds. With Burnham now floating the idea of rejoining, we need to ask: What did the EU ever do for us? buff.ly/Iv6ioAZ

European Union flags flying in front of an unspecified building (Photo: WikipediaCommons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

✊🏽 London South Bank University workers strike over contracts UCU union members at the university in south London have been resisting plans to turn them into a two-tier workforce since March. Read more buff.ly/BDoecPk

UCU union joint branch chair Geoff Goss addressing striking workers on the picket line

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‼️ Reform UK attempts to ban burka in Scotland Women Against the Far Right joined protests against racist Reform UK's proposed burka ban in the Scottish Parliament, which voted down the motion. Read more buff.ly/gjfDJ4j

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

✊🏽 Camden strike rally unites four fights in London Traffic wardens, teaching assistants (TAs) and teachers from Camden and housing workers from nearby Tower Hamlets, in the Unison and NEU unions, plus supporters, rallied outside Camden Town Hall on Tuesday. buff.ly/dENlqAF

Unison and NEU strikers rally in Camden, north London, with a solidarity banner of the Camden Trades Council

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

✊🏽 ‘Maricarmen will be with us as we fight,’ say Spanish housing protesters Thousands flooded the streets of Madrid following news of the death of María del Carmen Abascal. Forcibly evicted from her home, the 87-year old was a symbol for millions struggling to pay their rent. buff.ly/rsjfpbB

Madrid housing activists and supporters in mass protest say 'Not one Maricarmen more' (Photo: Wikimedia commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🪧 Labour holds back Greens in Holborn & St Pancras — but no landslide The mainstream media has used the by-election result to hammer the Greens over their support for Palestine. But Labour still has a way to go after the depths of unpopularity under Keir Starmer. buff.ly/P8rG3MC

UK PM Andy Burnham in front of 10 Downing Street (Photo: number10gov/Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🥀 Social care workers are questioning Burnham’s promises On closer examination, Andy Burnham’s promise of a “National Care Service” has turned out to be somewhat less than what was promised. Plus: Carers in Greater Manchester refuse to wait until 2030 for 'proper recognition'. buff.ly/UViJRTO

Unison union members employed by Oldham council‑owned company, MioCare, on strike last week (photo: unisonnorthwest/Facebook)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alex Callinicos 🔍 The Burnham formula — dramatic change in tone, minimal change in reality Behind all the schmaltz, Andy Burnham is a bold and intelligent politician. Nevertheless, what he’s seeking has nothing to do with genuine socialist politics. buff.ly/8QYdXCV

Andy Burnham, ministerial folder under arm, at door of number 10 Downing Street (Photo: number10gov/Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🚩 France in revolt ‘We are in a race to beat the far right,’ says French socialist Interview with Jad, a trade unionist and member of revolutionary socialist group "Autonomie de Classe", based in the Paris suburbs. buff.ly/liSPa2p

Still from video using photographs by Guy Smallman titled "On the 100,000 strong Paris demo in support of the school protests"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🚩 This week's Socialist Worker is out! Our front page headline reads: Hitting back at austerity and racism in France - STRIKE - BLOCKADE - REVOLT! Plus: Why Zionism is racism and why the Greens are right to say so. 🗞️ Socialist Worker Buy it. Read it. Sell it. buff.ly/ikgKoQD

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Socialist Worker Cartoons with Tim buff.ly/aqa4RQW

Cartoon of two Ku Klux Klan members in white robes and hoods sitting on a sofa in front of a television.

One Ku Klux Klan member points to a news item on screen about a motion that passed at the recent Green Party conference. It reads "Greens: Zionism = racism"

"They'll be saying we're racists next!!!" protests the Ku Klux Klan member.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚩 France in revolt Eyewitness report: Strikers and students rock France Protests in 40 cities across France on Tuesday saw workers and parents join secondary school students demanding a future. Protestors united around anti-fascist and pro-Palestine chants and revolutionary songs. buff.ly/FoQQn5L

Students and supporters, with homemade banners and placards, in mass protest in a street in Paris (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚩 France in revolt Police brutality in France shines spotlight on the institution’s violent history French teenagers are protesting for a decent education. The French government has responded by sending in police to arrest and terrorise them with tear gas and rubber bullets. buff.ly/2gcDWEk

Group of French police, one with what looks like a tear gas gun, at a Paris school strike on Monday (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‼️ Fascists lead the centre into Islamophobic attack Reaction to the school students’ uprising has added to French politicians' flow of racist filth, from the centre to the far right. But the resistance across France shows how the working class can overcome racist division. buff.ly/1UNe26N

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🇵🇸 ‘We forced Labour to admit we’re right on Palestine, but we must keep fighting’ As we mark the three-year anniversary of the genocide, Palestine activists react to Labour’s shift. Read on buff.ly/a896dKO

A Palestine demonstration in London in July mounts pressure on Labour (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🇵🇸 Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism Why it's right to oppose Israel TODAY: Wed 7 October, 7pm New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Sq, Oxford 0X1 1LQ (ring for Tidmarsh room) Also online. Pre-register: buff.ly/gIGcrsq Public meeting hosted by the Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

Graphic promoting Oxford & Thames Valley SWP meeting, framed by a Palestinian flag-based design including a photo image from a national pro-Palestine march featuring a group of people behind a "Jewish bloc for Palestine" banner

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚩 France in revolt ‘If the fights unite, we will win’: French students and workers struggle together Camilla Royle reports from the streets of Paris as students and workers take part in a huge day of action. buff.ly/5359H2n

Students and workers united on the streets of Paris on Tuesday morning (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, that guy’s a dick. Good he got arrested.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🇵🇸 ‘Two-state solution is dead, keep up your protests’ say Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank Palestinian journalists Alaa in Gaza City and Mahmoud in the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair spoke to Socialist Worker. buff.ly/EXtOn5d

View of forced displacement of Gaza Strip residents showing people carrying meagre possessions, including a bed mattress, walking through a blasted desolate ruined landscape (Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan/WikipediaCommons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚩 France in revolt University students speak out after French cops invade Sorbonne Police invaded the Sorbonne Nouvelle University campus in Paris on Monday and violently attacked the students. Plus: School students and teachers hold general assembly ahead of day of action. buff.ly/J2TQMLg

Students at Sorbonne Nouvelle University rage at the cops (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🗓️ On this day, 6 October, 1985: Broadwater Farm uprising begins Cynthia Jarrett, a black mother of two, died of a heart attack after police raided her house in Tottenham. As residents came out in protest, riot police flooded in beating their shields and chanting racist slurs. buff.ly/yRXSuBz

Police on Broadwater Farm at the time of the riot in 1985 (Photo: John Sturrock)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Depth ⚠️ Meet the billionaires praying for a fascist apocalypse Judy Cox reviews "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor and finds much to fear. But, she says, the authors’ strategy for resistance is far too meagre. buff.ly/KfuB03e

Front book cover for "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, with a graphic of what appears to be a spaceship unzipping planet Earth.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Obituaries ✊🏽 Remembering Jay Williams Jay, who died this month, was a revolutionary socialist through and through, an anti-racist and anti-fascist, a fearless dancer, a demon driver and one of the warmest people you could meet. buff.ly/QucFQUU

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox 🚩 Why we need revolutionary hope in an age of despair Anger can stir people to action. But hope can point beyond the specific cause of fury towards a different possible future. buff.ly/BTZ6Z9C

Student-led protests in Bangladesh in 2024 gave us all hope (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚩 Meet the pupils’ blockade: ‘We are young, determined and revolutionary’ Some people say these French teenagers are too young and they don’t understand anything. But listen to them: they understand the lot they have been given very well... buff.ly/GBeQyrS

Secondary school students in front of a lycée school in France, the bottom half of their faces masked, hold homemade placards saying 'France isn't a nation of submissive youth' and 'The youth are angry, not fascist' (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🪧 Why Greens were right to pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion The right is leading a ferocious backlash after the Green Party conference this weekend voted to support a simple truth: Zionism is racism. And: a single, democratic state in historic Palestine. buff.ly/tjh2bSX

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, with supporters holding up "Vote Green Party" placards (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✊🏽 Anti-racist marchers take on far right, chase Restore Britain off streets Anti-racists marched in Birmingham, Bradford, Croydon in south London, and Southampton this weekend. And chased Restore Britain off the streets in Holborn and St Pancras! buff.ly/IdPi2K7

A view of part of the West Midlands Unity demonstration in Birmingham on Sunday called by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR), mobilising around 2,000 anti-racists, with banners visible including "Women Against the Far Right", "Birmingham Together" and "Birmingham District NEU", and many anti-racist placards.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✊🏽 Minneapolis trade unionists rage against Trump’s ongoing crackdown Trade unions and anti-racist organisations rallied in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday to demand justice for the victims of Ice violence. Workers’ collective action is the key to defeating Trump. buff.ly/5fxyeTK

Members of the SEIU service workers union in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday (Photo: taylr/X)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📣 French teacher says ‘Conditions are ripe for long strikes’ as protests spread On a street in Paris, Camilla Royle speaks to Nicholas, a teacher at a school where pupils blockaded the entrance, about workers' solidarity and the growing revolt across France. buff.ly/nMUfFsX

A teacher holds up a placard of solidarity among a mass protest of French school pupils (Photo: RevPermanente)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join the Unite union picket at OUP's main entrance, 53 Walton Street, weekdays 7:30-10am and 12-1:30pm till 9 October Join the mass public rally 12:30-1:30pm Wednesday 7 October. @UniteSEregion @oxunipress #ProtectOurJobs

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✊🏽 Shame on greedy Oxford University Press! Rolling in dosh, it is choosing to outsource almost a whole department to cheap foreign labour (including AI). All power to the Finance Operations workers, out on strike now for another two weeks, for being the first to resist the waves of redundancies.

Graphic of front of OUP building in Oxford and text:
"Show Your Support – Join The Rally,
Come together in Oxford and show striking OUP members that they have the community firmly behind them."
(Illustration: Unite the Union, South East Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UniteSERegion)

Striking Finance Operations department workers on Unite picket, with solidarity Unite union supporters, placards including slogans "Protect our jobs" and "Stop the greed", in front of Oxford University Press building, Thursday 1 October.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🗓️ On this day, 4 October, 1936: The battle of Cable Street stopped the fascists Ninety years ago fascist Blackshirts tried to march through Cable Street to terrorise Jewish people — but the mass mobilisation of tens of thousands of working class people stopped them. buff.ly/VdNUrlU

Detail from "Battle of Cable Street" mural in east London

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

✊🏽 Thousands of Indian women erupt onto the streets over rampant sexual violence ⚠️ Content warning: sexual assault Thousands of young women at university in Delhi, India, took to the streets this week demanding justice, their fury triggered by a series of brutal rapes. buff.ly/bVCJdZ2

At a protest in 2013, two women hold a placard asking "When will the dawn break after this dark night?" and calling for the most extreme punishment for rapists (Photo: ramesh_lalwani/Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

✊🏽 Anti-racists take to the streets in Bradford Around 800 people joined a unity march through Bradford on Saturday, one of several events called by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) this autumn to build opposition to the far right and racism. buff.ly/IdPi2K7

Around 150 anti-racists marched through the centre of Croydon, south London, on Saturday, led by the Sutton Stand Up To Racism banner, with other banners including a regional UCU banner and a Women Against the Far Right (WAFR) banner (Photo: Jo Holland)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🚩 French socialists say ‘everything is open,’ as protests weaken centre politics “It’s an incredible situation,” says anti-racism organiser Denis from the streets of Paris. The school student revolt is growing and unions will add in workers for a day of action on Tuesday, 6 October. buff.ly/OZypsjZ

View of student protest in a street in France, with police in riot gear and protesters holding up placards - and phones to record what's happening, and what looks like a cloud of tear gas further down the street (Photo: RevPermanente/X)

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