Yellow Vest

Gilets Jaunes Activist Eric Drouet Arrested In France

January 4, 2019 Staff, Defendevropa.com Resist! France, Protests, Repression, Yellow Vest

Yellow Jackets activist Eric Drouet, who emerged as one of the leaders of the French anti-government movement, was arrested in Paris on Wednesday evening. Drouet, by profession a truck driver, was accused of the “organisation of an event without prior notification” for an event that took place in the French capital that night, French prosecutors said…Drouet was apprehended near the Champs-Elysées, where a few dozen activists gathered at his request. On 22 December, Éric Drouet was also arrested during the “Act VI” demonstrations of the Yellow Vests in Paris and was then placed in custody for “carrying a prohibited weapon”, in this case a baton, and “being part of a group seeking to commit violence or cause damage”.

Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: “We are not tired”

December 30, 2018 Richard Greeman, Popular Resistance Resist! France, Neoliberalism, Yellow Vest

Not only has this rebellion persisted despite unprecedented police brutality, media misrepresentation, and rejection by labor union officials, it has retained its grass-roots popularity and deepened its goals – from an initial rejection of a tax increase on Diesel fuel to explicit rejection of the established political/economic system and to near-unanimous call for the resignation of Macron and the creation of a new kind of democracy via referendum or constitutional convention.

How Mao Would Have Evaluated The Yellow Vests

December 26, 2018 Slavoj Zizek, Rt.com Educate! France, Protests, Yellow Vest

The French Yellow Vest movement exposes a problem at the heart of today’s politics. Too much adherence to popular “opinion” and not enough innovation and fresh ideas. Already a quick glance at the imbroglio makes it clear that we are caught in multiple social struggles. The tension between the liberal establishment and the new populism, the ecological struggle, efforts in support of feminism and sexual liberation, plus ethnic and religious battles and the desire for universal human rights. Not to mention, trying to resist digital control of our lives. So, how to bring all these struggles together without simply privileging one of them as the “true” priority? Because this balance provides the key to all other struggles.

Gilets Jaunes: A Pioneering Study Of The ‘Low Earners’ Revolt

December 22, 2018 Translated David Fernbach from Le Monde, Versobooks.com Educate! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Yellow Vest

While there is no typical profile for the demonstrators, one of the characteristics of the movement being its diversity, the gilets jaunes are first and foremost men and women who work (or are retired from work), aged 45 on average, belonging to the working class or the ‘lower’ middle class. These results, which are still very provisional, are based on an analysis of 166 questionnaires distributed to participants in actions at roundabouts and motorway tollbooths, or during the demonstrations of 24 November and 1 December, by a team of some ten researchers and students.

French Spirit In Motion: Yellow Vests Waltz To Edith Piaf As Police Close Down Camp

December 22, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Repression, Yellow Vest

Congregating around their makeshift bonfires, the yellow-clad resistors danced arm-in-arm to the tender strains of Edith Piaf. The military police, who had been sent to evict them, looked on – respectfully waiting, it seems, for the rousing French ballad to end before beginning their unpleasant work. This brief video tells a story that goes much deeper than opposition to fuel taxes or Emmanuel Macron – the nationwide Yellow Vest movement has stirred the French soul

‘The Gilets Jaunes Have Blown Up The Old Political Categories’

December 16, 2018 Jerome Roos, ROAR Resist! France, Yellow Vest

a loosely structured movement of angry citizens named after the yellow high-visibility vests all French drivers are required to keep in their cars in case of distress — defied an unprecedented security crackdown to return to the streets of Paris and other French cities in their hundreds of thousands. The protests can only be described as a resounding repudiation of the widely-despised president, Emmanuel Macron, and his neoliberal assault on working-class living standards.

Self-Organized Yellow Vest Movement Threatens Macron Regime In France

December 4, 2018 Richard Greeman, Indypendent.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Yellow Vest

Ignored by the president, distorted by the media, courted by the right, snubbed by the left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France. In Paris, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 1, as thousands of self-organized Yellow Vest protestors attempted to gather to express their grievances on the Champs-Elysées at a planned, peaceful demonstration, French riot police attacked them with tear-gas, flash-bombs and water cannons. By the end of the day, cars were burning near the Arc of Triumph, and all of Paris was in chaos. Groups of would-be peaceful marchers, joined by the usual casseurs (‘smashers’), spread throughout the capital, expressing their anger at the system and calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.

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