"Let's block everything": Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for a general strike on September 10

One support for the mobilizations, another for government censorship, and finally, a call for a general strike on September 10. During his speech at the Amfis, the summer university of La France Insoumise, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (which Libération decided to leave in response to LFI's refusal to accredit Le Monde journalist Olivier Pérou), Jean-Luc Mélenchon confirmed his movement's support for the call for a blockade that came from social media and was gradually joined by unions and political parties.

"September 10th must be a day of general blockade, that is to say, as far as employees are concerned, that September 10th must be a general strike," declared the founder of LFI. "We are not 'co-opting'," however, assured the three-time presidential candidate . "This kind of movement is irredeemable. […] This is our strategy: to help and serve the movement. We are helping them to self-organize."

Sunday, August 17, in the Tribune, The former MP and his lieutenants had already announced their decision "to support the popular initiative of September 10," whose opposition to the budget proposed by François Bayrou partly overlaps with the struggles of France Insoumise.

In the days that followed, support or at least sympathy for the blocking movement, of uncertain origins and partly card-carrying on the far right, had spread to the left: Ecologists , communists, and finally, socialists, each in turn ended up giving their support. On the union side, the CGT, which has yet to decide on its action on September 10, remains measured, saying it fears "infiltration by the far right." The RN, for its part, is also distancing itself.