PoliticsFrench student protests: ‘Illiberal’ Macron government dismisses social movement as ‘urban violence’

Sociologist Éric Fassin says France’s student protests are growing into a challenge to socioeconomic policy and what he calls an “illiberal turn” by the government. He links the treatment of working-class and racialized youth to wider restrictions on dissent, arguing that racism and democracy are part of the issue.