Unions, workers and students staged nationwide marches and a one-day strike by some public sector workers across France against the cost of living and government policy, in a renewed challenge to President Emmanuel Macron

Public demonstrations, strikes and other mass mobilisations against government policy or social conditions, and the political, legal and security responses to them.

Trade unions and Yellow Vests joined the student protests over wages, living costs and public services. The CGT union has called for a generalised strike on 5 November.