Youth mobilization calls for action

X signatories, including trade unionists, environmental activists, intellectuals, and artists, have called for increased youth mobilizations, converging social struggles, and defending an alternative path based on fiscal, social, and environmental justice and public freedoms. They specifically urge mobilization on October 24 and the generalization of a strike on November 5.

Social anger and youth protests

Social anger has reached a rare level, with youth rising to protest against the degradation of the education system and a closed future, following a summer marked by worsening climate crisis consequences. This mobilization has resonated throughout society, which suffers from the effects of unjust policies implemented by successive governments.

Rising costs and deepening inequalities

Rising fuel, food, and housing prices have led many to struggle with basic needs, facing difficult choices between heating, eating, traveling, or receiving medical care. Inequalities have deepened due to fiscal, budgetary, and economic choices favoring the ultra-rich and large companies.

Economic disparities and austerity proposals

While CAC 40 company profits and dividend distributions reach records, the poverty rate is at its highest historical level. Current budget discussions focus on an unjust proposal that would further impoverish the working classes and suffocate public services, which are already underfunded despite immense needs in schools, high schools, and hospitals.

Austerity from all sides

The government is not the only entity proposing austerity policies; the RN has announced a "radical effort" of 140 billion euros in savings by 2032 if it comes to power. The youth movement has taken up the torch of previous mobilizations for social and environmental justice and public freedoms, expressing indignation at worsening living conditions, fear of the future, and hope for alternatives based on fiscal, social, and environmental justice.

Government response and repression

The government has responded with repression, using media coverage to stigmatize protesters while omitting the true causes and aspirations of the movement. This authoritarian shift is linked to the government's refusal to address its policies in favor of the wealthy and its use of lies and manipulations to shift blame to the "ultra-left" or the broader social and environmental progress camp.

Demands and movement goals

The movement's demands include strengthening public services to ensure equitable access to education, health, housing, and transportation; implementing an ambitious climate policy and the 10 billion euro emergency plan for the 2027 budget; measures of fiscal justice to fund necessary actions; improving purchasing power, particularly wages; and banning weapons that cause dismemberment and lethal interrogation techniques.

Rejection of repression and call to action

The signatories reaffirm the legitimacy of the current movement and reject the shift toward repression, injustice, intolerance, and authoritarianism. They call for amplifying the movement on October 24 and generalizing the strike on November 5, demanding that the claims of fiscal, social, and environmental justice be heard.

Notable signatories

First signatories include Raphaël Pradeau and Youlie Yamamoto, spokespersons of Attac; Eloïse Lefebvre Milon, general secretary of the Student Union; Ryad Rani, president of the High School Trade Union; Lucie Clamens, co-federal secretary of Solidaires Etudiant-e-s; Yassine Benyettou, Red jeunes; Julie Ferrua and Murielle Guibert, co-general delegates of Union Syndicale Solidaires; Caroline Chevé, general secretary of the Unified Trade Union Federation; Thomas Gibert and Fanny Metrat, spokespersons of the Peasant Confederation; Camille Dupond, co-spokesperson of Soulèvements de la terre; Julien Le Guet, co-spokesperson of Collectifs Bassines Non Merci - Inter-BNM; François Chertier, Greenpeace; Céline Meresse, president of the CRID; #NousToutes; Lounes Dupeux, co-president of Friends of the Earth France; Amal Bentounsi and Omar Slaouti, antiracist activists; Sebastian Roché, sociologist; Thomas Wagner, founder of Bon Pote; Marie Chureau, activist and lawyer for ecology and human rights; Kaddour Hadadi (HK), artist; Corinne Masiero, actress; Robert Guediguian, director; Nina Faure, director; Gilles Perret, director; Eric Lagadec, astrophysicist; Juliette Arnaud, columnist; Guillaume Meurice, comedian; Aymeric Lompret, comedian; Florence Mendez, comedian; Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, comedian; Angélique Grosmaire, general secretary of the SUD-PTT federation; Julien Troccaz, federal secretary of SUD-Rail; Sandra Demarcq, general secretary of Solidaires Public Finance; Aurélie Gagnier, Sandrine Monier, Nicolas Wallet, co-general secretaries of the FSU-SNUipp; Info’Com-CGT; Fanny Petitbon, responsible for France 350; Zoé Pélegry, spokesperson of Alternatiba; Franzeska Bindé, spokesperson of Non-Violent Action COP21 (ANV-COP21); Isabelle Mathurin, co-president of the National Convergence of Public Services; Action Justice Climat Paris; Ludivine Bantigny, historian; Laurence De Cock, historian; Mathilde Larrère, historian; Claire Dujardin, lawyer and former president of the SAF; Raphaël Kempf, lawyer, elected to the Paris Bar Council; Margot Mahoudeau, president of the Trans Health Space; Ana Azaria, National Women's Equality Committee; Monique Dental, Feminist Network "Ruptures"; Christian Delarue, president of the CADTM; Romain Olla, Popular Victories; TataDrapi, content creator; Geneviève Legay, yellow vest, alterglobalist; Bernard Langlois, retired journalist, co-founder of Politis.

Full list available online

The complete list of signatories is available on the Attac website: www.france.attac.org.