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French students mobilize: "Sarkozy, you're screwed, the youth are in the streets!"

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From our correspondent in Paris -- http://www.internationalist.org/

Something New – High School and College Students Protest the Pension “Reform” – Why?

French Students Mobilize: “Sarkozy, You’re Screwed, The Youth Are In the Streets!”

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Turkey: Solidarity call for the "Platform of struggling workers"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 14/05/2010 - 7:55am

A number of militant workers from recent workers' struggles in Turkey, including National Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly (TEKEL) workers, Istanbul Water and Sewers Department (ISKI) workers, firemen, Sinter metal workers, Esenyurt municipality workers, Marmaray building workers, dustmen, workers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and workers from the ATV-Sabah News Corporation, have come together and established a workers' group called the Platform of Struggling Workers.

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