French labor rises

It is telling that whenever labor starts to get a bit testy, the corporate media tends to go and hide. I haven't been able to find any decent coverage of the French protests over the past week, outside of reports that tend to fixate on the burning of cars and "violence."

Initially spearheaded by students, the protests against new labor restrictions by the French government have been picked up by the larger labor movement, with a general strike planned for next Tuesday.

As usual, the only quality, consistent coverage of developments like these comes from the socialist press. See, for example, the myriad of articles over at the Socialist Worker.

I'm hoping the American labor movement is taking note of what's going on across the pond. Yeah, don't laugh...