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General Assemblies of Workers as the 21st Century French Revolution Continues

- by Bruce Lerro - Leave a Comment

French workers aren’t messing around and they intend to win back at lot more than sustaining their existing pensions as this article shows. Here are the workers represented in these general assemblies: workers at the state-owned railway companies RATP and SNCF; garbage collectors and sewage workers; nuclear power plant workers; electric workers at RTE and Enedis; metalworkers; airport workers at Roissy and Orly airports, workers from Sanofi and Saint-Gobain, and education workers.

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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