SocietyFrance needs ‘more public services’; salaries are too low and schools are in ‘very, very bad shape’

As France faces another wave of strikes and protests, Solidaires National Secretary Gaëlle Martinez describes the general strike as a struggle not only over wages, public spending and living costs, but also over economic dignity, the future of public services and the democratic right to protest collectively. “People just want to live, not survive,” she says.