Students and unions in France call for a day of national protest for purchasing power

Published at: 13/10/2026 01:32 PM

Various student organizations, secondary education unions and teacher unions in France called this Tuesday for a day of national mobilization for next Saturday, October 17, focused on the demand for urgent improvements in purchasing power and in a strategic alliance with the yellow vest movement, Telesur explained.

In calling on young people to join the streets against the French Government's austerity policies, the president of the Union Syndicale Lycéenne, Ryad Rani, urged strengthening popular unity to face the deterioration of living conditions.

For her part, the president of the Federation of General Student Associations, Suzanne Nijdam, emphasized that working youth expect concrete answers, budgetary allocations and immediate financial aid from parliamentary authorities in the midst of the debate over the state budget.

In addition, the general secretary of the SNES-FSU teachers' union, Sophie Vénétitay, confirmed the commitment of the education sector to ensure that on Saturday the 17th a front of social struggle against the neoliberal reforms that precarious French families.

Mazo News Team