The author of the video below argues that, overwhelmingly, the Gilets are NOT violent, and that much of the violence is done by the police, cases of blatant provocation, false flags, etc. Their instinctive strategy seems to be to paralyse the nation, and —says the videographer—this may work.
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While Macron and the rest of his corrupt crew were hoping the Gilets Jaunes would begin to vanish from the scene, this weekend showed that the movement is still very much alive.
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MAX PARRY—While the media’s conspicuous blackout of coverage is partly to blame, the deafening silence from across the Atlantic in the United States is really because of the lack of class consciousness on its political left. With the exception of Occupy Wall Street, the American left has been so preoccupied with an endless race to the bottom in the two party ‘culture wars’ that it is unable to comprehend an upheaval undivided by the contaminants of identity politics. A political opposition that isn’t fractured on social issues is simply unimaginable. Not to say the masses in France are exempt from the internal contradictions of the working class, but the fetishization of lifestyle politics in the U.S. has truly become its weakness. We will have to wait and see whether the yellow vests transform into a global movement or arrive in America, but for now the seeming lack of solidarity stateside equates to a complicity with Macron’s agenda
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The movement started, as usual, with financial claims but soon turned to political claims, demanding more political decision-making power to be given to the population through the use of extensive referendums. Another characteristic of this movement is that it is genuinely popular, not partisan, and refuses to have any political party officially join it, showing its full distrust in all the traditional political apparatus. It does not want leaders and just allows some “porte paroles” to speak in its name.
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Yellow vests and government disinformation —list of demands
20 minutes readTHE VOICE OF THE GILETS JAUNES is being heard: “Deputies of France, we inform you of the directives of the people for you to convert them into law (…). Obey the will of the people. Enforce these directives,” write the “yellow vests”. Spokesmen for the delegation are to be received by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and French Minister for the Ecological Transition François de Rugy at 2 pm on Friday.