This article (make sure you read the comments as well) at Richard Seymour's blog, Lenin's Tomb, is a bit of inside baseball, leftist politics version, but worth the read. The author reads a Le Monde article on a recent meeting of French trade union leaders which signal their desire (their resignation, in the eyes of the blog post author) to working within the parliamentary system, their desire to avoid a widening of the struggle beyond their control. The author's key points:
[From a union leader]: “Our responsibility as trade unionists is to construct compromises that make sense, and not to threaten the legitimacy of parliament or politics.” The intersyndicale communiqué reminds that the mobilisations will continue “respecting property and people” and makes no mention of other actions and strikes concurrently underway, making links with other confrontations and thus generalising the movement.
What's interesting is the push-back in the comments, where readers criticize the piece:
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