French strikes against pension reforms continue

Striking workers start a fire as they block access to the national wholesale market at Lomme, near Lille in northern France Photograph: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images Workers from the French Total Group refinery in Donges, western France, walk in the compound before voting to continue the strike until 29 October Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images A 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 Photograph: Philippe Huguen/Action images French gendarmes charge in an attempt to unblock the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refinery, south-east of Paris Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters French gendarmes charge at striking workers to try to unblock the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refinery Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters Strikers stand near a burning barricade in front of the French Total Group's refinery in Grandpuits Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images Tankers queue to be refilled in front of the Total refinery in Donges, western France Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images Students vote during a general assembly to extend the closure of Nanterre University in Paris, to protest the government's pension reforms Photograph: Michel Euler/AP