On this day, 7 February 2006, 400,000 people in 187 cities across France took part in the first mobilisation against the government’s CPE law, which would have given employers the right to fire 18-26 year-old workers with neither notice nor reason. However, due to mobilisations - including strikes, riots, occupations, train station and motorway blockades - the government were forced to scrap the new law after just a few months.
Read a short history of the movement here: https://libcom.org/blog/short-history-cpe-protests-france https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1646942632157547/?type=3