“Let’s block everything”: what are the prospects for the September 10 movement?

Published on September 10, 2025

A review of the "Bayrou farewell parties" held Monday evening in France, initial feedback from the field following the general assemblies in preparation for September 10, new mass organizations, and the European Union's responsibility for liberal excesses and attacks on social rights. On the eve of the launch of the "Block Everything" movement, MEP Anthony Smith (La Gauche) and CGT activist Christian Porta, from the Neuhauser factory in Folschviller (Moselle), discuss the vast popular movement taking shape in France and the unprecedented new perspectives it opens up, in a context of regime crisis.