They has an editorial which was more or less neutral, but more sympathetic towards the protests: Leader

Today, Stuard Jeffries writes in support: Why are the French so ready to take to the streets? Maybe because, unlike the British, they have something worth fighting for

On an urelated note, and to show that The Guardian/Observer is not exactly doctrinaire left-wing, this appaling hack-job on Vanessa Redgrave led me to fire a pissed-off letter to the editor: She's got issues (what got me was certainly not the criticism of Redgrave's politics but things like this: 'But,' I continue, 'you have to realise that there are selfish people like me who just don't care about the rest of the world.' She is genuinely shocked: 'You're not one of them! Are you one of them? I don't think so.' 'Yes I am,' I insist. 'I don't care what's happening in Kosovo, I really don't. I care a lot about what happens to my family and friends, so I'm not entirely selfish. ... the whole piece ridicules any kind of political consciousnes, rather depressing to see this in The Guardian.)