5 November strike: the unions’ seven demands and the link-up with young people

La source utilisée ne donne ni le nombre de participants, ni l’impact sur les transports (SNCF, RATP) ou les écoles, ni l’itinéraire parisien : ces points n’ont pas pu être vérifiés ici.

Normally ne and pas wrap the verb. Before a vowel, ne becomes n’. Check which part of the sentence the negation covers. Ne … plus means “no longer”.

Selon franceinfo, l’intersyndicale s’est formée début octobre autour de la CFDT, de la CGT, de FO, de l’Unsa et de la FSU ; les autres syndicats l’ont rejointe ensuite.

Selon means “according to”. Put a person or organisation after it as the source. It separates facts the writer checked directly from what another body or report said. Citing a source does not turn a forecast into an accomplished fact.

L’Union syndicale lycéenne (USL) prévoit des blocages le 5 novembre puis rejoindra le cortège ; la coordination des gilets jaunes appelle à un « 5 novembre du peuple ».

Prévoir means “to plan, to expect”. Être prévu means “to be scheduled” and être envisagé means “to be under consideration”. In the news, read them separately from expressions that describe events that have already happened. They do not say that the event has already taken place.

Cet article ne reprend que ce qui est nouveau : le contenu des revendications.

Est is third-person singular and sont third-person plural of être. They express “is / are” — a state or description. If a past participle follows, it is a different structure such as the passive, so check the words that follow.

Ce qui change depuis notre article précédent.

Qui continues a description of the person or thing just mentioned (“the one that does…”). Because qui is itself the subject of the next verb, do not repeat the subject. The verb agrees with the noun qui refers to.

Le 4 novembre, franceinfo détaille la journée du 5 : grèves, débrayages et manifestations, dans le public comme dans le privé.

Le 15 octobre means “on 15 October”. Distinguish the le before a date from the le that marks a weekly habit like a weekday. Du is de + le and au is à + le, so decide the meaning from the verb and period expressions around them. Their role depends on the group: a range of dates, the date of a bulletin or another complement.

franceinfoによると、労働組合の共同行動（intersyndicale）は10月初めにできました。

As in “LCPによると”, it shows where the information comes from. What that source reported follows. It is used differently from “私にとって”, which gives one’s own opinion.

10月21日にマティニョン（首相府）で政府と会った際、政府は話し合いに応じる姿勢を見せ、ファランドー労働相は臨時の引き上げは「タブーではない」が決まってはいないと述べました。

They negate a noun and similar content. “ではありません” is the polite form and “ではない” the plain form. “成立ではありません” shows that it cannot be said to have been concluded.

前回（news-fr-20261103-mobilisation-3-5-novembre-interdiction-paris）は、封鎖の規模と、パリの行進禁止を伝えました。

In “発表しました”, ました makes a verb polite past. The negative is “ませんでした”. Read the actual date together with the date and time in the text.

franceinfoは4日、5日の動きを「ストと職場での短い中断、行進の1日」と伝え、要求の中身を整理しました。

と takes the content that is reported or explained. In “改定する方針だと報じました”, “改定する方針だ” is what the report said. Separating the content from who said it and how makes long sentences easier to read.

10月5日の共同声明は、2027年度予算案で社会給付が据え置かれ、公共サービスの予算が削られ、公務員の給与の基準（point d’indice）が凍結されることを批判しています。

“〜すること” treats an action or content like a noun. The particle after it (が・を・は…) shows its role in the sentence. “ことができる” is a fixed combination meaning “can”.

この記事の出典では、参加者の数、交通（SNCF、RATP）や学校への影響、パリの行進の経路は確認できませんでした。

できる is the basic verb for ability. The potential form of 受ける is 受けられる. The same られる can also be passive or honorific, so decide from the meaning of the sentence.