Dear Friends,
French unions, students, unemployed youth, and undocumented workers are in a powerful battle to defend their right to decent jobs and benefits, in spite of intense state repression on behalf of the austerity agenda. In the U.S., where recent developments include a six-week Verizon workers’ strike, fast food workers invading McDonalds corporate campus with Black Lives Matter banners, farmworker mobilizations, and high school student walkouts to save schools, a win in France could inspire more conscious and united struggle.
We are writing to spread the word about a call for international solidarity in time for the June 14 Paris convergence, which constitutes a general strike. Please read, sign and share the call below (also found at
http://wp.me/p2T59r-1p8). To sign on to this call, please contact the Ad Hoc Committee to Support French Workers c/o Johnnie Stevens at nysckrs@gmail.com
To our New York City friends—and all supporters of freedom for U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal—please check out the two events listed on the flier below, which link the fight against the racist ‘prison-industrial complex’ with the French struggle.
