The rebellion will not end until stagnation is permanent

«'This is a tidal wave of protest,' said Bernard Thibault, head of the traditionally Communist CGT union, citing the private sector employees, civil servants and old-age pensioners who had joined the students and union members marching through Paris.»

That aside, doesn’t it strike one as a little absurd that these “Revolutionary types” want nothing to ever change?

«That political spirit displayed by the student movement has created real links between them and the banlieue youth. It has also prevented Villepin’s attempts to divide the movement by playing off allegedly “privileged” university students against the young people of the suburbs.

The question is whether that political spirit generalises into the working class and energises the anti-CPE movement to push for stronger action.»

Using desiccated old phrases like “the bosses” and the like doesn’t actually mask the ignorance of the statement. The Anti-CPE protestors are, in the interest of insulating themselves from any of the risk in life, asking the unemployed in the banlieu to remain unemployed. Conventional wisdom aside, they are fighting over many of the same jobs which as less numerous without the CPE.

In effect what the redistributionist university student socialists are doing telling those less well of to go pound sand – opportunity isn’t made, it’s taken by ransom. They are not alone in losing touch with reality:

«Chirac was embarrassed by the way the mass marches coincided with the current visit to Paris of the King of Spain.»