Paris Yellow Vest standoff with riot police evokes centuries-old French revolutionary spirit
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note that the police are now weilding rubber bullets and tear gas.
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David Harris
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Evan Reed
Don't really know what to think of it. Seems like a crypto-fash element in it, kinda Poujadist, which is what you get when you construct a protest movement with no connection to larger social transformations and oriented around a rigid "apolitical" template about fuel taxes, which people are probably understandably pissed about. But that's also what you get with a centrist who wants to reduce fossil fuel emissions while simultaneously cutting taxes on the uber-rich.
I expect the yellow-jacket uniform to make the leap to Anglophone countries as a way of restructuring right-wing street movements now after the shattering of the alt-right. Tommy Robinson in the U.K. will be the first one to do it.
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Justin Martin
Ayden Clark
It's a genuine popular insurrection that's why you're going to see al kind of people go and why left orgs look at it like like chicken look at a knife.
Easton Nelson
this happens at every single protest.
Charles Evans
Thingnisnthe UK had protests like this in the 1990s over the poll tax: they worked in ending the poll tax and they forced Maggie to resign but their main organisers (the Trotskyist group Militant) didn't gain much momentum from them. A part of that was their weak electoral base but another is that when you create a singular single issue group with a removable goal (in these cases get the tax repealed) it is very difficult to mobilise people beyond that. I mean look who is doing well out of this, Or Men's opinion ratings haven't recovered, Ruffin is gaining a little but not much, DLF are doing well of this but still. The result of movements like these often repeal the thing they sort to repeal and destabilise the existing government but that's it: the aftermath is often not exploited by the organisers of such events.
Isaiah Peterson
So is this a workers movement or a neo nationalist/fascist one? What has the communist party of France said about this? Even anarchists should get into this, just don't let them fall to gay Nationlism.
Colton James
every time lol
Anthony Williams
Mate you know shit about French anarchists…
Jason Jones
there's different kind of people, it's completely disorganized.
they're irrelevant.