Towards the final days of 2019 in France, 800,000 people marched in cities across the country, railway workers, teachers, students, hospital workers, etc., held one of the biggest public-sector strikes seen in decades. Beginning as a rejection of against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul the pension system, the protest quickly mushroomed to embrace a broad diversity of progressive issues. A transport strike brought Paris to a standstill.