Guadeloupe and Guiana are part of the "ex" French empire, in the Caribbean and South America. In 1946, they were "assimilated" to France, leaving their old status as colonies, to become new "French Departments" of America. In theory, this means that "they are France" in all aspects - administrative, legal, social, territorial, political, infrastructural, economic, etc. - with specific variants or adaptations due to their distance to the "Metropolis". If on the one hand the social level got better, with access to all the services guaranteed by the French State, very significant insufficances persist if we compare with other more central regions of France. On the other hand, these departments do not enjoy facilitated economic exchanges with their neighbor countries such as Brazil or Dominica, unlike France for example with Switzerland or Italy. If the status of these territories has changed, we can still confirm that a kind of colonial-dependency is alive! In 2009 and 2017, a general strike broke out respectively in Guadeloupe and Guiana, with a new form of collective protest, joining unions, political parties, patronage, cultural and community associations, to demand much more commitment from the State in social and economic terms , or answer the problem to insecurity. As we will also analyze, these movements are inscribed in the collective memory of anti-colonial and anti-slavery struggles.
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