September 10th Blockade Movement: Almost the Entire Left United

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On social media, calls to shut down the country on September 10 are multiplying. Site blockades, roadblocks, and days without consumption: proposals for action emerged last July to protest the cuts announced by the Prime Minister for the 2026 budget.

With less than three weeks to go until September 10, two out of three French people say they support this movement. While La France Insoumise (France Insoumise) is showing full support, the rest of the left is more cautious. "We don't fully understand its contours. These demands are vague, but we must support it. Nor is our vocation to channel it, tame it, exploit it, or subjugate it," asserts Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the Socialist Party.

Questions also remain about the origins of the movement. This is why the CGT is maintaining a certain distance. "There are a plurality of points of view among the initiators. We are very vigilant about attempts at infiltration and instrumentalization by the far right, which, in some places, is trying to develop anti-union rhetoric and redirect anger," declared Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, on France Inter.

At the highest levels of government, they say they remain attentive to all these forms of mobilization. "These new social movements, we must always have consideration for the suffering they express while demonstrating authority on the question of republican order," the executive indicates. These scattered angers echo the episode of the Yellow Vests. In 2018, Emmanuel Macron belatedly measured the scale of the movement.