Strikes, protests, clashes and music

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Clashes in Paris, lots of fights after a protest on the place de la Concorde (200,000 people in Paris for 1,500,000 in the whole country according to the unions, only one third of those figures according to the Police), a fourth week of strikes in virtually all public services, the UMP (Chirac's party, right-wing) députés in the parliament singing la Marseillaise to cover the communists singing l'Internationale, the project of reform of our retirement system presented by our Prime Minister has entered the political fray today for its first day of debate in the parliament.

I'm afraid Tom might be right, "the fun looks set to begin." Apart that it didn't turn to be fun today, and, as weird as it seems, it could get much worse. It is as if we cannot make changes without making a revolution.