“They’re abandoning everything related to intellectual development and education. The less educated people are, the easier it is to provide companies with cheap labour.” French youth continue to blockade hundreds of high schools nationwide. Kais Aittadi, a spokesperson for Syndicat de Combat Universitaire de Montpellier (SCUM) student union slammed the French government for cutting education budgets amid overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating school conditions – while continuing to funnel funding into “the military, the police … to repress people and wage war constantly.”

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