November 21, 2007 (LPAC)--In what appears to be a pure "permanent revolution" provocation, all four of France's TGV high-speed railroads were found to have been sabotaged around dawn this morning. Signal boxes and cables had been burned to prevent TGV traffic.

This coordinated action happened on the eighth day of railway workers strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's gutting of government pension. Trade union leaders condemned the action as harmful to their cause, and main railroad union leader asked, "who has an interest in such actions?"

This was a coordinated operation, as it was carried out simultaneously at four different sites around the country between 6:00 and 6:20 a.m. Because the sabotage tends to discredit strikers in the eyes of popular opinion, at the very time when negotiations between the government and unions started today, the first suspicions are aimed at a set-up/police operation. Another lead could be extreme left provocateurs, which were already warmed up last spring during Sarkozy's election campaign. Some serious people tend to consider these two possibilities as one.