Hundreds of Parisians took to the streets on Tuesday to protest President Macron’s escalating military spending and the government’s role in what they call “imperialist wars.” Demonstrators, including members of socialist and communist groups, waved flags, lit flares, and chanted slogans like “Merchants of death, profiteers of war” and “For peace.” Protesters condemned France’s support for conflicts in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Congo, and Sudan, while criticizing the government for prioritizing tanks and missiles over hospitals, education, and social welfare. The demonstrations come amid France’s 2026 draft budget, which boosts military funding while slashing social programs, following Macron’s loss of his parliamentary majority. #france #macron #apt
00:18Our imperialist powers, France in the first place, are investing and preparing France to participate in the war.
00:37We see it with the speeches about getting involved in Ukraine. We see it with the support for the State of Israel and the genocide in Palestine. We see it in the different positions in Congo, Sudan.
00:48Without a fight, there will be no peace. That is to say, we are not just saying that peace is nice and all that.
00:59If we do not establish a balance of power in the streets and in the world of work too, we will not stop this race towards war because it is inherent to capitalism. It is not a deviation.
01:08Our own country has also already been led and is still involved in many wars.
01:21This is a direction that we reject, that we fear and we want to oppose with all our strength any preparation for a possible third world war.
01:32What worries us is that we don't really take into consideration our needs, or what we want.
01:46Well, hospitals are no longer functioning, education, there's no more money, uh, we're unemployed. Well, I'm unemployed.
01:52For example, we're having trouble finding work. We're trying to find apprenticeships, work-study programs, but we can't.
01:57And in the meantime, we're putting all the money into the war, into industry, into rearmament.
02:02We're going to increase year by year, more to build tanks or missiles, to produce weapons, to buy weapons sometimes from others, and that's a problem,
02:17because they're not going to be useful, and our real concern is that we don't need that, in truth, we're at war with.
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