French Lessons, Cesare Ottolini
“ Free travel today! ” announces a station-master on the RER B, the line that takes passengers from Paris to Charles De Gaulle airport; “ It’s part of the protest against the burning of a bus by suburban vandals ”. Very different, I think to myself, from the strike in defence of public transport which has paralysed the city of Marseilles for over a month. This was my first taste of the city, when I arrived on Friday November 4th for a series of meetings with urban social associations and movements after the World Zero Evictions Days.