France Launches Attack on Long-Term Jobless
Submitted on June 28, 2011
By Pierre Mabut - 28 June 2011
The ruling right-wing [government] of French President Nicolas Sarkozy held a convention on June 8 to launch an all-out attack on basic welfare payments to the long-term unemployed...The reactionary tone was set by Sarkozy’s minister for European affairs...who denounced welfare...recipients as a “cancer of French society.” This is part of Sarkozy’s campaign to get re-elected in 2012 — amid savage cuts in public services and the stoking of anti-immigrant racism.
