The yellow vests insurrection challenges not only political and economic representation, but the representation of words and images, words and images appropriated for commodity production and circulation, words and images central to spectacle capitalism.
Continue reading #GiletsJaunes: The war of images
French territory: Fear! How long has it been since the ruling classes (of a “developed” country) have feared their poor? The forced gymnastics of the french government’s “great national debate”, supported and secured by a militarised police apparatus whose only red line or limit at this point is not to kill the yellow vests (1000’s have been arrested, hundreds prevented from demonstrating in Paris and other cities, hundreds have been injured and mutilated by weapons for “maintaining the peace”),** the unconscious consensus between the media, journalists, politicians of almost all parties, all testify to a fear before an unknown energy that seems uncontrollable.
Continue reading #GiletsJaunes: Creative violence against State brutality
Gilets Jaunes in Nantes: Several thousand demonstrators. Banks targetted. The far right pushed aside. Building the general strike.
Continue reading #GiletsJaunes #Nantes, February 2: Another afternoon of anger
The Unorganized Revolt – An Anarchist Perspective on the Yellow West Uprising in France.
Continue reading #GiletsJaunes: “The simple will to rebel against poverty and bondage”
After months of clashes, “Act 12” of the main Gilet Jaunes (yellow vests) marches today is setting itself squarely against police and fascist violence – and calls are growing for a general strike.
Continue reading #GiletsJaunes: #ActeXII rallies in face of repression
Gilets Jaunes: Considerations on the singularity of the yellow vests…
Continue reading The #GiletsJaunes: A movement that is not a movement
Tuesday evening, saw a massive eviction of Paris’s Porte de la Chapelle urban camp. According to Paris Refugee Ground Support (Warning Facebook Link), hundreds were brought to gymnasiums to get out of the cold overnight — but hundreds more were left behind to fend for themselves.
Continue reading #Paris: Refugees evicted in Porte-de-la Chapelle
Since the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement, mysterious Yellow Letters have been circulated on roundabouts and social networks. With customary poetic and theoretical acumen, this 20th Letter lays the foundations for a strategy of combat: “if the cold reason from above is to give way to the common sense from below, we must gather ever more people.” -Lundi matin
Continue reading Yellow Letter #20: Let’s Shut it Off
The best and the worst can wear the yellow vest. But the future of the movement—and much else besides—will be decided in the streets, and not by the discourse of the befuddled left.
Continue reading A Vest That Fits All
Paris: The NPA demonstration was violently attacked yesterday, Saturday, during Act XI of the Yellow Vests in Paris by “les Zouaves”, an informal group of radical far-right activists from different organizations and ultras. Last week, they also attacked anti-fascist activists.
Continue reading #YellowVests, #Paris: NPA demonstration attacked by fascists
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