France Brought to its Knees…

…by an actors’ and stagehands’ strike. They are protesting proposed changes in their pensions; the woman in the picture below is holding a sign that quotes Berthold Brecht, who was a despicable human being, even for a Communist: “If you don’t take part in the struggle, you take part in the defeat.”
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It is hard to see how France can remain solvent when even the most modest efforts to restore fiscal sanity encounter fanatical resistance.

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