> SA wrote:
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>> In France, that fear was absent - little movements
> were simmering all the time, occasionally sprouting into big movements
> (like in 2006) or even huge movements (like in 1995).
>
>
> No, sorry, but this gets it wrong.
>
> General strikes in Latin Europe are a periodically recurring phenomenon in the institutionalized course of collective bargaining: dog bites man.
Also: the 1995 strikes are not remembered in France as just another instance of a regularly recurring phenomenon. They're remembered as a major milestone that proved the spirit of '68 wasn't dead.
SA