Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities today in what was expected to be the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has led to violence in the streets and threatens to weaken the government.
For the second time in three days, students ? this time joined by unions and employees ? were using marches to press the conservative government to withdraw the measure, which could take effect in April.
?We are not disposable. We deserve better,? said Aurelie Silan, a 20-year-old student who joined the massive protest in the French capital. She held aloft a banner mocking Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ? just one sign of the mounting pressure he faces.
?Aren?t we the future of France?? Silan asked.
In Toulouse in south-western France, between 21,000 and 33,000 people marched against the jobs plan to cries of ?No to a government that makes students (and) workers fodder for employers.? In Lyon, in the south-east, police put the number of de
