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Professor Richard D. Wolff
@profwolff.bsky.social

French students lead against gov't cuts in public services (like schools), healthcare, pensions. Instead, Macron uses tax revenues to aid big business, rearm, fund Ukraine's war, save the rich from paying fair taxes. What "Alors enfants de la patrie" really means. www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/e...

cnn.comUnprecedented student protests are rocking France. Here’s why they’re angry | CNNFrance is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed ...

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poivrotfarci.bsky.social
@poivrotfarci.bsky.social

The average US college tuition in the is $40k & trade school is $15k. In France they are all but free. I’ve never seen or known of US students demanding and protesting for affordable higher education. US contempt for higher ed is rooted in complacency & laziness and not seeing life outside the US