Striking workers start a fire as they block access to the national wholesale market at Lomme, near Lille in northern FrancePhotograph: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty ImagesWorkers from the French Total Group refinery in Donges, western France, walk in the compound before voting to continue the strike until 29 OctoberPhotograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty ImagesA riot police officer stands in front of striking workers at the entrance to the national wholesale market at Lomme, near Lille Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
French gendarmes charge in an attempt to unblock the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refinery, south-east of Paris Photograph: Benoit Tessier/ReutersFrench gendarmes charge at striking workers to try to unblock the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refineryPhotograph: Benoit Tessier/ReutersStrikers stand near a burning barricade in front of the French Total Group's refinery in GrandpuitsPhotograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty ImagesTankers queue to be refilled in front of the Total refinery in Donges, western FrancePhotograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty ImagesStudents vote during a general assembly to extend the closure of Nanterre University in Paris, to protest the government's pension reformsPhotograph: Michel Euler/AP
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