Whatever its scale, the 14th “day of action” against Macron’s rotten pension reform, scheduled for 6 June, will have no more effect on the government than did the 13th. Even if Macron did not really obtain the ‘appeasement’ he was hoping for, he can conclude that, on the pension reform, he has undoubtedly won the battle, at least temporarily. However, from the point of view of the French bourgeoisie, it is a Pyrrhic victory in which the winner emerges much weaker, overall, than the loser.
When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron's government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic's dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer.
By Muhammed Shabeer
Peoples Dispatch
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