{"id":13734,"date":"2026-11-02T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:47:34","slug":"france-faces-new-week-of-tension-as-students-plan-blockades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/france-faces-new-week-of-tension-as-students-plan-blockades-02112026\/","title":{"rendered":"France Faces New Week of Tension as Students Plan Blockades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French Government, under pressure after images of chaos from the Oct. 17 protest, welcomed that the latest demonstrations unfolded calmly despite what Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez described as unprecedented violence by some rioters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/europe-youth-protests\/\">Europe Youth Protests: Germany and France Deploy 220,000 Police<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day ended with 779 arrests across the protests and Halloween night, significantly fewer than the 1,314 of the previous Saturday and the 2,628 of Oct. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mobilization also fell, with 320,000 people in the streets compared with 550,000 last week, according to the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main student organizations called for resuming blockades from Tuesday and joining the general strike called by French unions for Oct. 5, in which other groups such as railway workers will also participate, according to the organizations. Some student groups, however, are calling for blockades starting this Monday, such as the organization Les Lyc\u00e9ens, according to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sabrine Kharbach, spokesperson for Union \u00e9tudiante, said Sunday in remarks to public broadcaster Franceinfo that their demands had not been met, according to her statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: vmmh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: EFE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Government, under pressure after images of chaos from the Oct. 17 protest, welcomed that the latest demonstrations unfolded calmly despite what Interior Minister Laurent Nu&ntilde;ez described as unprecedented&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[8],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yolaunicaquehay","display_name":"RRebeldeAdminWP","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6145d63ff95c9a0f0e53b7149804b1faf86748d6cc15f466103269a288ea377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english","last_name":"Radio Rebelde","first_name":"WebMaster","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13736,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions\/13736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}