“Denigrate us or not, we will continue to fight.” Students in the Paris suburbs told BT they aren’t backing down from their demands for improved school facilities and affordable access to education and housing, despite attacks on the movement from the Macron government: “We’re here because we don’t want a dictatorial regime that then becomes fascism.” Mass youth-led mobilizations against austerity continued in cities across France on Saturday, October 31, as momentum builds toward a general strike on November 5. Nearly half a million people were in the streets, according to organizers, including 200,000 in Paris, where authorities closed dozens of metro stations and forced the main march onto a route along the city’s edge. A curfew has been imposed through Monday morning around Place de la République and Châtelet-Les Halles.

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