Dossier: Movement of French high school and university students

Introduction:

 A collection of some of the ICC articles and leaflets produced during the October 2026 movement of high school and university students in France, plus a leaflet distributed in September 2026 recalling the lessons of the 2006 student and workers’ movement against the CPE contract of employment.

 

France
Repression of high school students: the true face of the capitalist state is one of terror!

The reasons for young people to fight this system are multiplying: precarious work, lack of housing, the miserable state of education...and police repression. 

 

Billions for war, batons for youth
The struggle of high school and university students is the struggle of the entire working class (leaflet)

A leaflet distributed by the ICC in France. From Nepal to Morocco, from Madagascar to Peru, Gen Z is taking to the streets. Everywhere, a generation is worried about its future. Everywhere, the same refusal to suffer attacks in silence. Today, it is in France that youth is rising up.

 

ICC Leaflet on the movement against the CPE in France, 2006
A wealth of experience for future struggles

Twenty years ago, in 2006, in France, the lecture theatres – bastions of academic boredom – were abruptly roused from their torpor by the clamour of heated debates on unemployment, job insecurity, exploitation and the future.