CPE Uprising

The CPE Uprising was a worker uprising which occurred in France during 2006 as people rioted against the introduction of deregulated labor laws.
== Background ==
The CPE law was an austerity measure which would undo decades of hard-won labor protections, allowing bosses to fire younger workers with hardly any restrictions and greatly increasing workers' precarity.
== Tactics ==
They occupied universities and government buildings, blocked streets and
 highways, protested peacefully, rioted, burned cars, went on strike, and fought with police. In the occupied universities, students held assemblies and debated topics that went far beyond the particularities of the CPE law, to talk 
about wage labor, capitalism, and the organization of life in general. In the end, they defeated the law.
== Results ==
The uprising defeated a law that would have greatly worsened labor conditions for workers.Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence
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