Martin has hidden his long dark curls under a hood, he and his buddies are on foot: strike in Paris, that also means on this day: many metro lines are cancelled, the buses are overcrowded; anyone who can set it up hasn’t even gone to the city to work. The streets belong to the cyclists, the e-scooter riders and skateboarders, almost everyone has a homemade cardboard sign with them: against Macron, against retirement at 64 or against capitalism.

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