France's global warning

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1734333,00.html

Once again, French students are leading the march - this time against an unpopular employment law - but these protests are also about the country's future on an increasingly globalised planet, writes Alex Duval Smith in Paris
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the article puts more what's happening in its global perspective

note that the word republican is used in its original sense (against greed and abuse of power)

personally I agree with the author that the main problem has to do with the failure of the education system and the problems in the suburbs...

and the students don't have any solutions...