Yellow Vest

‘Yellow Vest’ Act 22 Reaches 30,000 People Despite Repression

April 15, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, France, Repression, Yellow Vest

The number of protesters increased in spite of the Anti-riots law and its threats. Police Saturday arrested at least 50 people as the Yellow Vests were performing their 22 consecutive weekend protest against France's President Emmanuel Macron. Summoned through social networks, almost 6,000 people gathered in the city of Toulouse, where 23 people were arrested when marches were trying to depart from the Allee Jean Jaures avenue and its nearby side streets to downtown areas in which demonstrations had been banned.

Yellow Vest Movement Struggles To Reinvent Democracy

April 13, 2019 Richard Greeman, Popular Resistance Resist! Democracy, France, Yellow Vest

After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized social movement known as the Yellow Vests has just held its second nationwide “Assembly of Assemblies.” Hundreds of autonomous Yellow Vest activist groups from all over France each chose two delegates (one woman, one man) to gather in the port city of St. Nazaire for a weekend of deliberation (April 5-7). After weeks of skirmishing with the municipal authorities, the local Yellow Vests were able to host 700 delegates at the St. Nazaire “House of the People,” and the three-day series of general meetings and working groups went off without a hitch in an atmosphere of good-fellowship. A sign on the wall proclaimed: “No one has the solution, but everybody has a piece of it.”

France: Unions And The Yellow Vests Resist Macron

April 11, 2019 Charlie Kimber, Socialistworker.co.uk Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Yellow Vest

We Yellow Vests, formed in local assemblies, gathered in Saint-Nazaire, 5, 6, 7 April 2019, address the people as a whole. Following the first meeting of Commercy, approximately 200 delegations present continue their fight against liberal extremism, for freedom, equality and fraternity. Despite the government’s escalating repression, the accumulation of laws that worsen everyone’s living conditions and destroy rights and freedoms, mobilisation is taking root to change the system embodied by Macron.

Only The Struggle Matters

April 3, 2019 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! France, History, Yellow Vest

PARIS—In the small chapel to the right at the entrance of the neoclassical Church of Saint-Sulpice is a large mural by Eugène Delacroix. The painter, at the end of his career and suffering from the tuberculous laryngitis that would soon kill him, depicted a story from Genesis. “Jacob is travelling with the flocks and other gifts he is taking to his brother Esau in the hope of appeasing his anger,” Delacroix wrote in 1861 when the painting was completed. “A stranger appears, blocking his path, and engages him in a fierce struggle...

Tear Gas, Skirmishes: Yellow Vests Flood Streets Of France In Act XX

April 1, 2019 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Repression, Yellow Vest

Thousands of protesters are rallying across France as Yellow Vest demonstrations show no sign of abating on their 20th week despite authorities banning many locations. A heavy police presence can be seen throughout the country. In Paris where more than 4,000 went out to the streets, protesters gathered in two locations, forming a joint column and marched towards towards Trocadéro square.

French Army Receives Authorization To Shoot “Yellow Vest” Protesters

March 27, 2019 Alex Lantier, Wsws.org Educate! Class Struggle, France, Military, Repression, Yellow Vest

Yesterday, the governor of the Paris military district told France Info that soldiers of the Operation Sentinel counter-terror mission had been authorized to fire today on the “yellow vests.” Asked about whether soldiers were capable of carrying out law enforcement duties, General Bruno Le Ray replied: “Our orders are sufficiently clear that we do not need to be worried at all. The soldiers’ rules of engagement will be fixed very rigorously.” “They will have different means for action faced with all types of threats,” he continued. “That can go as far as opening fire.”

Yellow Vests Hold Protests Across France Despite Bans

March 24, 2019 Staff, RT Resist! France, Militarization, Police abuse, Yellow Vest

French "yellow vest" demonstrators began their 19th consecutive weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron's government Saturday as military units were deployed to assist police. Police and demonstrators clashed sporadically in Paris and other French cities Saturday as "yellow vest" protests against President Emmanuel Macron's government took place. The demonstration in the capital was largely peaceful for most of the day, but later in the afternoon police fired tear gas on protesters near Boulevard de Strasbourg, close to the capital's Gare du Nord and Gare de L'Est railway stations.

Macron To Deploy French Army Against ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests

March 23, 2019 Anthony Torres, WSWS Resist! France, Police abuse, Yellow Vest

French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux announced that President Emmanuel Macron would activate army units during this weekend’s “yellow vest” protests. This is the first time since the 1954–1962 war in Algeria that the army is to be mobilized in police operations on French soil against the population. Griveaux announced that the operation would have the task of “securing fixed and static points in conformity with their mission, that is to say principally the protection of official buildings.” He justified his recourse to the armed forces by claiming this was necessary to allow the police forces to “concentrate on protest movements and on the maintenance and re-establishment of public order.”

Yellow Vest Protest Reaching A Showdown With Macron

March 22, 2019 Richard Greeman, Popular Resistance Resist! Emmanuel Macron, France, Yellow Vest

The situation in France may be reaching a showdown between the Macron government, which is now considering using the Army against the Yellow Vests, and the social movement, to whose demands the regime continues to turn a deaf ear. The showdown is likely to happen tomorrow, Saturday, and frankly, I have no idea what will happen if the government uses total military might to crush the still-popular Yellow Vests, who are unlikely to back down but may change their tactics.

French Police To Join Yellow Vests After Realizing Government Is Extorting Them Too

March 12, 2019 Matt Agorist, Secretspaceprogram.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Police, Yellow Vest

Police in France are being ripped off by their government who is refusing to pay them for policing the protests—now they are threatening to join the yellow vests. France — As the “gilets jaunes” or “yellow vests” protests continue to take place across France, the government has been slowly acquiescing to the demands of citizens. However, the concessions have not been enough and so they’ve stayed in the streets although mostly calm. Also in the streets are the French police, who, according to reports, are also growing wary with the French state.

Police Violence Against Gilets Jaunes Sparks Broad Backlash

March 10, 2019 By Oliver Haynes, New Internationalist Resist! France, Police violence, Yellow Vest

The gilets jaunes, or 'yellow vests', have been met by an increasingly heavy handed police response. The 15th of December in Paris saw this reach an absurd peak when there were 2,200 protestors on the streets and over 8,000 police. They were ubiquitous. On the 15th they were so numerous that they could consistently split groups of gilets jaunes from merging to form a bigger mass. Ironically, this was one of the calmer weekends in terms of crowd numbers, police violence and casseur presence. Other times though the police response was devastating.

Climate Politics After The Yellow Vests

March 5, 2019 Colin Kinniburgh, Dissentmagazine.org Strategize! Climate Change, Yellow Vest

I first passed the protest camp on Christmas Eve, as the sun was setting and most of the country was preparing to sit down for the holiday dinner. So were twenty-odd local gilets jaunes. This dedicated group of protesters had spent over a month camped out at Jeanne Rose, a large roundabout on the outskirts of the former industrial town of Le Creusot, about four hours’ drive southeast of Paris. Their ranks had thinned since November 17, when 150 or so protesters first rallied to the Jeanne Rose roundabout, out of some quarter-million across the country. But those who stuck around had reason to be optimistic.

France: Arrests, Tear Gas And Water Cannons Deployed On Week 15 Of Yellow Vest Protests

February 25, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, France, Repression, Yellow Vest

This time, another 70 were arrested nationwide and sprayed with water cannons while protesting Macron's government spending cuts. France’s Yellow Vests showed no sign of tiring as the 15th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Macron’s austerity measures and repression took place across the country. Around 46,600 demonstrators were out Saturday across France, including Paris and Clermont-Ferrand, continuing to call for an end to high taxes for the working and middle class and an increase to the minimum wage, among other demands.

Act 14: The Yellow Vests Protests Persist

February 18, 2019 Staff, France24.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Yellow Vest

Thousands of "yellow vest" protesters marched across France Saturday, three months since the movement began and in a week that has seen growing international concern at police treatment of the protesters. Demonstrating for the 14th consecutive weekend, just over 41,000 people turned out across the country, according to the government, well down on the 282,000 peak during the protests' early weeks. An interior ministry statement said 41,500 people had demonstrated nationwide, 5,000 of them in Paris. Organisers of the marches, however, put the numbers far higher.

10 Reasons The Gilets Jaunes Are The Real Deal

February 12, 2019 David Studdert, Off-guardian.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Working Class, Yellow Vest

We live in a world where democracy is a threat and freedom is a punishment, where you can’t tell a turd from a diamond, where 5G is trumpeted even as it threatens to kill us, where the prevailing ethos is buyer-beware and where anyone against warmongering and eternal war is smeared and painted as a monster. Who do you believe? All the things you felt certain about Democracy, liberty, the right to free speech, television news, all these things are not only being undermined, in reality, they are being thrown in your face.

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