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Thousands of French teachers and public sector workers have gone on strike in Paris to protest against job cuts and education reform. Estelle Youssouffa, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reporting from Paris, draws on similarities from forty years ago when a social revolution shook the nation in the 1960s and education and reform thrived in the heart of French society. "May 68" was the year in which a series of student protests and a general strike caused the eventual collapse of the French government.

Tough immigration laws in France have sparked a new resistance movement, an underground network that helps the country’s thousands of illegal immigrants. They say they’re having to hide people to combat moves by the new government to deport illegal immigrants.