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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Libby Brooks

Thursday briefing: Why young people are taking to the streets across France

Protestors climb a bronze statue at Place de la République during an education protest
Hundreds of thousands of protestors in France have gathered to demonstrate against what they call an overcrowded, ill-equipped and understaffed education system. Photograph: Véronique de Viguerie/Getty Images

Good morning. In my experience, at any protest, the most memorable and encapsulating slogans are always the ones written by hand with marker pen on cardboard placards.

“School is a right, not a privilege,” read one such sign held aloft by a student in Paris, where huge youth protests over the state of high school education have brought tens of thousands of young people and adults on to the streets, with further strikes planned today.

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