France, London hit by 24-hour strikes | CBC
Posted by ac on September 7th, 2010
“In France, unions launched the strike to protest a government plan to reform the pension system, including a proposal to raise the minimum retirement age…
Meanwhile, commuters in London dealt with rush-hour chaos Tuesday morning after London Underground workers walked of the job in a one-day strike, closing much of the city’s busy subway system…
The French retirement age of 60 is already among the lowest in Europe. In contrast, neighbouring Germany has decided to bump up the retirement age from 65 to 67 and the U.S. Social Security system is gradually raising the retirement age to 67 as well…”
-We have entered a period of the class struggle in which, as the IMT Manifesto describes, “the crisis of capitalism does not only mean that the ruling class cannot tolerate new reforms. They cannot even permit the continued existence of those reforms and concessions that the workers have won in the past.”
