 French working classes up in arms protesting the pension reform proposed by the neoliberal government headed by Emmanuel Macron. Major trade unions, left-wing parties, youth groups and others have launched massive protests across the country demanding that the government withdraw the controversial plans that will increase the retirement age in the country from 62 to 64. Workers will also need to work for at least 43 years to get a full pension starting from 2027 if the reforms are passed. On January 19th, around two million people participated in protests and mobilisations held across France. A second day of mobilisation was organised on January 31st. News outlets reported that as many as 2.8 million people participated in the protests organised in numerous cities. Protest actions were also organised on February 7th and 11th with more calls planned for the days ahead. I think we need to understand that we are facing a huge democratic movement in order to do so, which is undisputed these last 30 years, I would say, by the size of mobilisation and to which the government should be able to do so. To understand more about the ongoing movement, we spoke with Ramon Wheeler, the secretary of the trade union, Suitsanto Social, the union actively mobilises workers in the social and health sectors. A big majority of French workers, women and men, are against this reform. For us, it's a gift to capitalism, because they want, by our point of view, they want us to work later and to oblige us to produce private incidents. The French government, like other governments in the world, are trying to mention the health and the social health, and we are against this politics. We want a strong and large public health and social public sector. Now, during this, we were on strike and arrived at the reform of the pensions, and it's melting two anguaries, one against the reform and another against our conditions of working and our conditions to take care of people who need health. I am convinced that women have a big role in this demonstration and in this strikes, particularly in our sector. If we, if we lost this confrontation, the first victim will be women, we will see that everywhere in the world, when our class lost, the first victim are women under their rights. It makes us to have an aim that is to make the hate of March, the women's rights journey, a big demonstration in France. It's so hard that the building doesn't work. The concern is that the parliamentarians, the president of the republic, think that, as they were elected, they can do what they want. I think that when we respect democracy, we also listen to mobilization, anger, and we keep in mind what is not the case today. They defend their class, their social class, and the aim is to earn money and to make money and to oppress the majority, because in their mind, they are the chief, they are elected, they are not common people like you and me. No, they can dispose, they can use people, they can use our life to their profit. The way that they make this reform is very arrogant. The first demand is to stop this reform, to stop this reform. For us, our demand is to get back to 60 years old, to take pensions. Our demand is to to rise wages, because in my sector, by example, we lost 30% in 20 years, 30% with the inflation, the inflation grows higher than our wages, and the anger of people is also that big companies make a lot, a lot of profits, but people who work didn't sell these profits. We want profits that would be better distributed. In our team, we have to build a force report of force as higher than the government conviction is higher. So by me, we just began the confrontation. The next dates for the reform strikes are the 7th march. The 7th march trade unions who are united with each other want to block the country, make a big, big, big strike, the 7th. If we win on this reform, we will be stronger on the other demand. More money for health, more money for social, more money for rebuild homes, well, all what we need to have a good life.