It will be “The day France stops“. A leaflet, which has been circulating for several days with a strong impact on social networks, launches a “Call for people’s solidarity for a total, general and unlimited judgment of the country from September 10, 2025“. Almost seven years later, this mobilization born on the Internet is reminiscent of the movement of yellow vests – a citizen protest which had partially paralyzed France – although its magnitude remains to be determined.
These calls, from very diverse backgrounds, crystallize around the budget cuts wanted by Prime Minister François Bayrou. Their possible realization in the street remains an unknown, but the officials of rebellious France (LFI) “decided to support the popular initiative of September 10”, in a text published on Saturday August 16 in La Tribune on Sunday.
The first references on this date, whose choice does not seem to have any particular justification, date back to May, at least. But it was in July, thanks to the savings measures announced by the Prime Minister, that calls gained visibility.
Blurred origins
The origins of this popular mobilization are still very vague. According to Libération, The first concrete calls of the movement, called “Let’s block everything!”, circulated on July 14 on social networks, via the Tiktok account of “essentials”, an organization advocating “A sovereign France “. The call was then relayed by old figures of the yellow vests, such as Anaïs Albertini, but also by extreme right accounts, in particular on the X network. Since then, the movement has taken a more formal turn with the creation of a blog called Mobilization 10 September. Blog.
Other sources, such as the France Press Agency (AFP), bring back the origin of the call to a telegram channel, rather confidential. The message would then have been declined on the “Essentials France” site, with a main organizational channel, “let’s indignant”, bringing together several thousand internet users.
One of the initiators of the movement, contacted by The Parisian, explains that the collective “Mobilization 10 September” would be made up of around twenty people who met on social networks. This 30 -year -old, an employee of Enedis wishing to remain anonymous, assures that the members are “apolitical” And that they are not attached to a union.
What claims?
As for the claims, on the blog “Mobilization 10 September”, calls encourage “to say stop at Austerity Bayrou”. The movement has indeed gained momentum after the Prime Minister’s budgetary announcements in July, and in particular its proposal to suppress two holidays to save money, reports Franceinfo.
Always on the website, a text is carried away in particular against “the government [qui] Sacrifies our rights: two holidays abolished, massive cuts in health, freezing of pensions, abolition of thousands of public positions“. He launched a general call to “boycott”, at the “disobedience” and at the “solidarity”.
On numerous accounts (Tiktok, Facebook, X, Telegram), already established or specially created, the messages of this movement mention the RIC (Referendum of Citizen Initiative), claim wage increases and pensions or call for “resistance”, voluntary containment or general strike. More concretely, the collective list various modes of action, including the call to “no longer buy in supermarkets that take advantage of dropping down, public aid, while pressing employees”, targeting in particular “Carrefour, Auchan, Amazon”, reports Franceinfo. He also offers boycott actions such as “withdraw his money from banks”, “refuse to consume”, “stop working” or “no longer validate his transport tickets”.
At the yardstick of these claims, “the ingredients of anger (feeling of downgrading of the bottom of the middle class, end of the difficult month for the popular categories and generalized fiscal fiscal) have not disappeared,” noted the director of the opinion department at Ifop, Jérôme Fourquet in The point. “And it is on these still glowing embers that the government poured a can of petrol with its rigor plan […]the fire lighter being, to spin the metaphor of the barbecue, the removal of two holidays “, according to him.
A politicized movement?
Initially, the call was mainly relayed by extreme right accounts, suggesting a political attachment to the movement. But the initiator, questioned by The Parisian, refuted any link with a political party: “The movement does not depend on any party, any organization, no color. It is a general fed up”. “If people from all stripes recognize themselves, it is precisely because the attacks affect everyone,” he insists.
Nevertheless, on Saturday August 16, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and several LFI officials called to censor the Prime Minister and supported the movement “All block”. “We call for a determined offensive to bring down this government. On the ground by the all-round popular mobilization and to the Parliament by an immediate motion of censorship,” wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon, believing that “the two must go hand in hand, because doing one without the other is vain or uncertain”. The leader of rebellious France also assured on his blog recognizing himself in the “reasons for this action”, while emphasizing the importance of his “independence” as “a condition of his success”. Other political leaders also argued the call of September 10, such as MEPs Clémentine Autain and Alexis Corbiere, ex-LFI sitting in the ecologist group. They also signed a forum, published by the review Regardscalling for this date “the start of the struggle” for “a dignified and happy life”.
On the far right, however, the deputy RN Edwige Diaz expressed her reserve. Her party “in principle cannot be an instigator of demonstrations,” she said on France Inter, everything In “Understanding (Ant) the distress of these French”. “I do not have the impression that it works very strongly,” says a government source to AFP. While remaining careful: “We can be wrong, there were many who did not feel the yellow vests and they arrived …”
As for unions, the CGT Mines-Energies Federation calls for strike from September 2. Force Ouvrière also announced a strike notice from September 1 and a strike is planned in Paris hospitals, against the budgetary measures of the Bayrou government.
