Tag Archives: France

Paris-luttes.info: “The gilets jaunes: Understanding the resistance of an insurrection”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by

“A background analysis of the yellow vests movement, after five months of mobilisation. A return to the salient points of this long sequence of struggle: the articulation strike-blockage and economic struggle-political struggle; the centrality of democratic issues; and the prospects of Commercy/Saint-Nazaire.”

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Paris-Luttes.info: “The gilets jaunes: What violence?”

Posted on April 7, 2019 by

“The political act, as opposed to voting, is when people invite themselves in and break into an institutional game determined by power.  This is perhaps anarchism: to reject the rules of the game, to expect nothing from power, to give up the idea that the power will grant anything, to grant oneself.  Strikes, blockages, wild demonstrations.”

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Alain Badiou interviewed about the Gilets Jaunes, Macron and future of the French left.

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

“Things are happening, anarchically, as is always the case with beginnings. Experiments must be linked to a careful, prolonged and systematic examination of Marxism, but also to the revolutionary attempts of the twentieth century as a whole. What really happened in Petrograd and Shanghai? What is the balance sheet? What formulation allows us to avoid the failures of these undertakings?”

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CrimethInc. Collective: “Yellow Vestiges: Inside the Riots of March 16”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

‘Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian participants seem to have outlasted every effort by police to crush the movement by brute force, by politicians to co-opt it into fruitless “dialogue,” by “leaders” to pacify and dominate it, by fascists to use it as a recruiting platform.’

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“Lessons from France: The war on dissidence”

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

“No insurrection is sustainable only with bravado. If the yellow vests have persisted, it has been because of indignation – an ongoing, unanswerable indignation. But they have also been animated by the discovery that together, in daily struggle, new worlds can be made.”

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lundimatin: “The gilets jaunes: An ultimatum”

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

‘On Saturday, March 16, will converge on Paris Act XVIII of the yellow vests, under the slogan “Ultimatum: all France in Paris!”, the demonstration of “popular neighborhoods” against police violence and the” march of the century” for the climate, that is to say, almost all of the questions that the current power is unfit to answer. All the questions that exceed it, and which are the very urgency of the present. All the reasons we have to take our destiny out of its hands.’

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“The gilets jaunes: A question of time”

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

“A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection.”

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Temps Critiques: “The envy of the French Revolution of the Yellow Vests”

Posted on February 18, 2019 by

“Spontaneously, the reference to the French Revolution constituted for the Yellow Vests the only historical reference, because only it carries the collective memory of a social and political upheaval with which they can identify.”

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Enzo Traverso: “Understanding the Gilets Jaunes”

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

“A self-organized movement deprived of any tradition and historical memory learns from its experience and its own mistakes; it does not accept lessons from outside and has its own times of apprenticeship. Unfortunately, I am not sure they have much time.”

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Samuel Hayat: “The Gilets Jaunes and the Democratic Question”

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

“A new emancipatory politics, which remains to be invented, should be based on making the ensemble of relations of domination visible, without hierarchy and by remaining open and responsive to new antagonisms which will inevitably come to light. As it is, the Gilets Jaunes movement, anchored in a citizenist conception of politics, does not seem to be taking this path toward the visibilization of these antagonisms, even as it opens up new democratic possibilities. A renewal of an emancipatory politics must therefore think both with and against this movement, for democracy and against oligarchy, but also for the expression of conflict and against consensus – whether it be technocratic or citizenist.”

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