The one thing I always have to admire about the French is their ability to stage direct action when things go pear-shaped. If they're not happy then the rest of the world must hear about it, we really need a bit more of that spirit here, with crap like Phorm and "the UK Gov DB" fiascos!

but I'm with the french workers on this one - good luck to them.

I wonder what the world is coming to when its the cheese eating surrender monkeys that start the revolution.

Hey, love 'em or hate 'em you gotta hand it to the French, they don't take things lying down.

Blockade the ports/motorways/Bastille, kidnap the boss, who cares, but do SOMETHING.

Compare that with us pathetic Brits who would just shuffle around kicking the dust, bleating that ever-so-British catch-phrase, "but what can you do?"

For what? Betamax cassettes or super 8mm perhaps.

> It appears Foucher has now been released, having agreed

> to return to the negotiating table

Gotta wonder how long he'll remember that "agreement". Trouble is, as soon as you actually release hostages, that's when the bullets start raining.

Can't see what else they could have done, though. Other countries' plebs may seem like chicken when compared to the French, but even the French are little more than barking chicken. Sound good, but still deliver their eggs dutifully.

Where's the British lamb that needs burning?

Efros

It's time to bring in some French negotiators to discuss pensions with Sir Fred.

I thought we'd already ascertained, in the forum for the original article about the unfortunate Mr Choudhary's demise, that it was largely the actions of "activists" unrelated to the company, and not ex-employees. Seems the difference is in India the communists are trying to agitate the workforce, whereas as in France they still are the workforce. Thankfully, apart from that nonce Scargill, our own union bosses are too busy getting fat off their members' dues to start killing/beating/kidnapping managers. Scargill got fat but did the violence as well.

The idea of communism always made me laugh - take everything away from those that had got to their position through hard work or their forebears hard work, and make all equal, and what do you think happens next? Just a new set of clever people climb to the top and within a few decades the dumb are the poor again, and there is a new elite, only they now have rule buy communist mandate so the dumb revolutionaries don't even have recourse to democracy to unseat them.

There are 600 odd wastes of space in London that need dealing with. Easy to find, just look for the building with the really big clock tower

While there are some decent bosses out there (who work as hard as the rank and file and share the profits from their work with them equitably), I'm surprised that there are not more CEOs, boards of directors, &c -- you know, the folks with the stock options, unjustified bonusses, golden parachutes, seven+ figure (or two+ comma) salaries that are paid for out of profits that more rightly should be shared among those who actually DO the work that makes the company its money -- being similary feted elsewhere.