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← Lundi: ‘France on the brink: “Either we topple the system or it will crush us”’
Chantal Mouffe interviewed on “The ‘gilets jaunes’: ‘A reaction to the explosion of inequalities between the super-rich and the middle classes’” →

Édouard Louis: “Can the Yellow Vests Speak?”

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos | Comments Off on Édouard Louis: “Can the Yellow Vests Speak?”

“This movement must continue, for it embodies something right, urgent, and profoundly radical, because faces and voices that are usually reduced to invisibility are finally visible and audible.”

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← Lundi: ‘France on the brink: “Either we topple the system or it will crush us”’
Chantal Mouffe interviewed on “The ‘gilets jaunes’: ‘A reaction to the explosion of inequalities between the super-rich and the middle classes’” →

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