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Jacobin, Topic: A Movement With a Future
Link: A Movement With a Future Excerpt: "Contradictions Among the “Gilets Jaunes” People One of the singularities of this movement is that it raises the question of power head-on. “Macron resign!” is a unanimous slogan that towers above all others. But the social content of this demand remains indefinite. A battle for this is being played out on social media, in speeches, on yellow sweaters, on posters, on walls. This is obviously a major difficulty. In this movement, left- and right-wing emotions coexist in great confusion — a large mass of people who are not very politicized, anticapitalist activists, and fascists. Besides, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the accession to power of Bolsonaro in Brazil, of the M5S-Lega alliance in Italy, and even of Trump in the United States, were all to varying degrees examples of social mobilization with an initially indefinite content: against the rise in bus fares in Brazil, against corruption and taxes considered unfair i...
Roar Mag., Title: “The Gilets Jaunes have blown up the old political categories”
Link: ROAR Magazine — by Jerome Roos "… the most beautiful of all doubts Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and Stop believing in the strength Of their oppressors." - Bertold Brecht Excerpts: "Four weeks in, the uprising also continues to confound mainstream journalists and experts. “The gilets jaunes have blown up the old political categories,” one French media activist told ROAR on Saturday night, after a long day of riots in the capital. “They reject all political leaders, all political parties and any form of political mediation. No one really knows how to confront or deal with this movement — not the media, not the government, nor anyone else. What we are witnessing is unprecedented in French history.” While the outcome of these dramatic developments remains uncertain, it is clear that France is currently living through a rupture of historic proportions, taking the country onto uncharted terrain. For the left, the emerging scenari...
Black Agenda Report, Topic: Yellow Vests Show the Way
Link: Freedom Rider: Yellow Vests Show the Way by Margaret Kimberley The yellow vests ought to be inspirations for the 99% on this side of the Atlantic ocean. “They will not accept neoliberal plunder without a fight.”
WSWS, Topic: Which way forward for France’s “yellow vest” protests?
Link: Which way forward for France’s “yellow vest” protests? Excerpts: • " The danger, however, is that without a clear political perspective and orientation for a broader struggle against Macron, the movement can be frittered away in fruitless protest actions or subordinated to the maneuvers of the ruling elite." Where have (Maxwell's) Marxists gone, BTW? • " It is significant that some “yellow vest” groups like that in Commercy are calling for the building of popular committees to decide upon and coordinate the activities of the movement. What is developing, in a highly embryonic form, is dual power. Against the bankers’ government, protected by its hordes of riot police, the specter of separate and opposed institutions, representing and organizing the workers in struggle, is beginning to emerge." • " Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the middle-class student leader in May 1968, shamelessly slandered it as fascistic, telling Germany’s taz newpaper that “...
SGP, Topic: The “yellow vests”: A movement of workers against social inequality
Puti-nazis come out in force against the continuation of previous governments' (incl. the French socialist party Hollande, and the Republican Sarkozy) " financial and military dictatorship"-engineering, neoliberal policies, personified by the political-centrist, "call me President," "Jupiterian" government of "Manu" Macron, a Rothschild banker.
