Blockade at Louis Pasteur High School in Lille due to dissatisfaction over pension reform and missing classes

About fifty students block one of the entrances to the Lycée Pasteur in Lille. Their objective: to express their opposition to the pension reform and to raise awareness among young people of their age on this.

Since Tuesday morning March 14, more than fifty high school students have been blocking one of the entrances to the Louis Pasteur high school in Lille.

They express their opposition to the pension reform which has just been voted in the Senate and which must pass in joint committee at the National Assembly on Wednesday.

“We block first because we are against the pension reform and what it symbolizes behind“, explains Sarah, 17 years old and a student in the final year.

For the young teenager, this reform “only exacerbates wealth inequalities“and the government”gives to the richest, by lowering their taxes, by removing the ISF and by making the poor work more. It is unfair.“

She thinks that “will increase unemployment, which is high among young people, and make them even more precarious“. For her, “the so-called deficit could have been filled if we increased taxes by 6% for employers“.

Another important point: this pension reform “puts women at a disadvantage, even if the government denies it, it’s anti-feminist and women lose in their wages“.

Since this morning, the number of students “nis only increasing“. The atmosphere, meanwhile, is “pretty good“. Young people “make music with the garbage cans, there are protest songs and slogans“, describes Sarah.

The heart of the blockade”is to raise awareness” and to do “make people aware that they are concerned, that it can still change“The Role of Youth”is to help with that“.

This is why she and other comrades created the “Lilloise high school coordination” which organizes inter-high school actions “like this blockade“. They also write leaflets, raise awareness “youth on capitalism” and express their “solidarity with workers to move society“.

“We get up at 6 a.m., or even earlier, we don’t like to miss classes“, insists Sarah who adds “that there are terminals”, like her, who pass the baccalaureate this year. “We do it out of necessity“, she concludes.

High school students who so wish can nevertheless access the establishment by another entrance.