Young people at a joint-union protest against the French government and President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, September 10, 2025. They are students in their twenties and only recently became activists. On Thursday, September 25, during a protest organized by student groups against the French government's proposed austerity measures at Place de la Sorbonne in Paris, they marched among a crowd of motivated and politicized young people. On Thursday, October 2, unions and student political organizations are once again taking to the streets, as they did on September 10 and 18. The student union group Union Etudiante recorded 80,000 young people in the streets on September 10 and 110,000 on September 18.