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Al Guardian dispatched one of their socialists to this fetid event as a sort of participant-observer. Read his report at the link below. Rambling and largely vacuous, but with some unintended humor:

French resistance

Well, plans to go to the Indymedia party never got off the ground. After an impromptu jazz band struck up in the canteen marquee at about 9pm it was three hours of dancing on the tables, in the aisles and on the bar.
I've never seen spontaneous happiness - hysteria even - among what must have been more than a thousand diners, all started when one table of Italians (I think) started singing socialist anthems after dinner.
[...] This afternoon I caught some of the discussion from an outside overspill debate with Tony Negri, the once imprisoned Italian professor and, to many people, the "godfather" of the anti-globalisation movement (people here are now billing it as the "Autres Globalisation" movement, or translated into English as the "alter gobalisation", which is quite a good slogan, if a little tricky off the tongue.
He raised a massive cheer from the audience when he told how he lead a strike against Alfa Romeo in the early 70s, and eventually "blew up the electricity" to close the factory down.
But he rebuked the crowd immediately, saying this had been a "mistake." Just as many people cheered that too.
Best T-shirt so far? Well, there have been a lot, but I liked the one from the French Marxists, which turned the hammer & sickle into the Nike "swoosh" symbol, with the slogan: "Strike? Just Do It!"