However, they do not provide for "joint actions", nor have joint claims been agreed. The text has been signed by the trade unions CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA and FSU, among others. D. Solidaires rejects, considering that the declaration is ‘offside’: ‘The unions have decided that nothing is urgently needed’. Solidaires wanted to call for a general strike to "benefit from salary increases and social rights," he said. The other trade unions have ignored it. Yves Veris of the FO trade union explained that they wanted to "stay in the trade union zone" and called on the government to start negotiations. CGT Secretary-General Philippe Martinez has also refused to join the Yellow Jakas movement: “The government refuses to talk to us, but who will it talk to? They are very nauseating,’ he said in the Le Monde newspaper.

The message is clear: the unions want to take advantage of the movement created with these Jaka to force the government to negotiate, achieve social progress and regain the prestige that has been lost in many citizens in recent years. But what negotiation? What progress? The relationship of forces is not with the unions, it is with Jaka Hori. And for three weeks, the unions have found what they have failed to achieve in recent years: that the government push back and that the measures are put to a standstill.

Something is happening in France. Something new. More than one was ridiculous in the initial picture; many were not looked at seriously; many were not taken seriously. Who are they? What do you want? How are they organized? What ideology do they have? These are the questions to which most of the French media have tried to answer in the last three weeks. "Whenever we go to any mobilization, there is always a familiar face. By blocking Biriatou’s toll, I knew nobody; nobody,” a Baiona de France 3 camera said this week. "It was the first time that journalists did not have the phone number of the mobilization organizers," said Jean Yves Camus, a researcher at the IRIS institute, at the issue of Arret Sur Images.

The anti-tax speech and the right to use the car on demand without worrying about the environment appeared at the beginning. Or, at least, it had been represented like this. They also complained about the position of the extreme right, and there were manifestations of the extreme right within the movement. But in statements to the media, testimonies on behalf of Jaka have referred to the difficulties of making ends meet, to the need to count every euro they spend, to the scarcity of public services, to the gap between political, economic and media power and citizenship ... They demand more democracy and a better distribution of wealth. A profound transformation of the system.

And they've taken to the streets to show their anger, without asking for the right to manifest themselves, self-organized by social networks, without leaders, far from the decisions that are made in the offices of Paris.

It is an opportunity for the Left, and some have understood it. In recent weeks, calls have multiplied, with Jaka Maiz, or with them, to go out in the street. Students, railway staff... In the absence of a general strike call, there are sectors in which the street is being called to take advantage of the social climate and take the ÓRDAGO to the French Government. A movement arising out of party and trade union structures is not going to be replaced by parties and unions, but they can be complementary, they can help. If the left didn't, others could do it.

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