Fishermen this week blockaded the ports of Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk with boats and barricades of burning tyres.
Riot police in France have taken over a major oil refinery east of Paris, one of 12 facilities blockaded by strikers for more than 10 days.
The students in branded American clothing who took to the streets and blockaded their lycées, with bliss on their faces and banners in their hands, were going through a rite of passage.
With parliament blockaded, no decision can be taken and temporary workers could be fired as their contracts expire.
His commandment demanded that the city should be blockaded strictly, so that it would not go to war and starve to death or destroy its protectors.
They blockaded the suez canal in violation of international agreement.
A year ago thousands of farmers blockaded main roads across the country, intimidating Costas Karamanlis’s conservative government into coughing up a Euro 500m ($705m) package of support.
The US and Britain airlift supplies into a Berlin blockaded by the USSR.
At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now, when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.
The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out.
In February, farmers, who say they have seen both foreign and domestic markets dry up, blockaded the capital in tractors and forced the resignation of the agriculture minister, Martins Roze.
Warlords blockaded the ports and created countless checkpoints along our already lethal road, attacking aid groups, intercepting the food, and selling it for arms.
Piles of rubbish make it grimier than refugee camps in Gaza, the blockaded Palestinian territory 35km to the south.
