After a steady decline in turnout, France’s Yellow Vest movement is on the rise again. Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “great national debate” lies dead in the water.
They’re not done yet.
There had been a steady decline in numbers. According to the Interior Ministry just 12,000 Yellow Vests took to (...)
A look back at the year 2018. The emergence of the Yellow Jackets was first and foremost an expression of the rejection of tax injustice, crystallized in the rejection of the new fuel tax, which everyone has since understood was intended only to finance the compensation in the 2019 budget for (...)
Is the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to participate and to observe first-hand this popular insurrection which I had been afraid (...)
The gilets jaunes movement has discredited not just Macron, but the entire French elite.
Around a month since its first mobilization, and after several weekends in a row of national protests, the yellow vests movement, arrogantly dismissed by the elite and facing unprecedented repression, has (...)
It is sad to see how completely misrepresented Adam Smith (1723-1790) is when pundits call upon him to vindicate neoliberalism and the status quo. It seems many have not really bothered to read his works.
Some passages in Adam Smith’s major work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the (...)
The gilets jaunes’ street demonstrations arose outside of trade-union structures. Yet their mobilization offers a historic opportunity to renew the labor movement.
Since mid-November, thousands of people have donned their “hi-vis” yellow vests and met at road intersections across France to (...)
The movement brought anger to the streets again across France in defiance of state efforts to divide and disrupt it this week, reports Susan Ram
Gilets jaunes (GJs) in their tens of thousands were out on the streets again across France on December 15, their fifth consecutive Saturday of (...)
Is the Gilets Jaunes movement ‘a Cheshire grin without a Cat’? How have the unions and the parties that before November defined formal politics in France reacted, now the ‘air is jaune’?
In the following interview, independent journalist and Paris resident Cole Stangler describes how the (...)
For the fourth consecutive week ending with 9 December 2018, Paris reverberated with the march of the Yellow Vests, angry protesters denouncing the government, asking President Macron to resign, smashing shops, cars, and vans, erecting barricades, and setting them on fire. The protesters came (...)
From the peasants’ march in Delhi to the Yellow Vests in Paris, the world-wide bursting forth of people’s anger only underscores the fact that neoliberal capitalism has reached a complete dead-end.
Nothing shows the crisis of neoliberal capitalism more clearly than the popular uprising in France (...)
“The yellow vests struggle is a class struggle, a conflict based on social hatred...and all the repressive forces at the service of his holiness have been mobilized against it...The king stands naked.”
Gérard Mordillat, Telerama, December 10, 2018 This interview with Olivier Besançenot was (...)
This interview is to be published in Chinese on Borderless website, in Hong Kong.
Au Loog Yu - The French president Macron’s wanting to raise the gasoline tax is supposed to be part of the policies of phasing out fossil fuels, right? Should one support an environmental position such as this (...)
Since the beginning of December, France has been in a political crisis from which Macron hoped to escape with the statement he made on Monday evening 10 December. The yellow jackets’ movement has been growing since mid-November. Saturday 1 December was a turning point, bringing about a change in (...)
With its background in responses to the flurry of reforms that Emmanuel Macron has sought to push through since 2017, the Gilets Jaunes has already become a major political event in Europe. In this article, Cedric Durand looks at the background to the movement, and asks where it might be (...)
Who are the gilets jaunes and what do they want? To answer these questions, a group of sociologists, political scientists and geographers have recently conducted a study of the motivations and socio-demographic profile of the movement. In this article, they present their initial findings.
The (...)
Women’s prominent role in the gilets jaunes movement should be no surprise. Struggles against the high cost of living have long made it possible for women to highlight and politicize the particular burdens we face.
Over recent days, the French media has discovered the significant presence of (...)
Danièle Obono, a deputy of La France Insoumise, speaks to Feyzi Ismail about the Yellow Vest movement, the police and the origins of Macron’s crisis.
A popular initiative to put the banker in prison. Photo: Feyzi Ismail
Danièle Obono, a deputy of La France Insoumise, speaks to Feyzi Ismail about (...)
Saturday’s huge Gilets Jaunes mobilisation across France defied Macron’s Project Fear, as high school students facing state repression join a movement that continues to rise. John Mullen reports from Paris.
Gilets Jaunes in Lille on Saturday 8 December in mass solidarity gesture with the (...)
Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the ’right direction’. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising (...)
The social warfare unleashed by Macron in the past 18 months has sparked anger in the French population. In this article, Frédéric Lordon analyses the gilets jaunes protests.
The collapse of an order of domination is recognizable by the amazement to be seen on the faces of its servants. On (...)
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