After six months of mobilisation, the Yellow Vests are still present by the thousands in the streets. For act 27, the national calls to meet in Reims and Nancy, and the events organised in many cities in France, a week before the European elections, are once again a very clear response to Macron for the fact that he said that he has “brought answers” … While almost all the media agencies start the sempiternal refrain of “the movement losses impetus”, it…

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This May 1st 2019 was the perfect demonstration of the continuity and tenacity of a now historic popular movement. Historical by its duration, because never in France has a social revolt held as long, despite all the strategies aimed at extinguishing it, as 25 weeks, and no sign of weakness in terms of both the street and the public’s support. Historical by its composition, because every demonstration, week after week, eludes all the prognoses in terms of number and aspect….

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This Thursday, April 25th, the “wow” effect was supposed to get Macron out of the impasse. Put off multiple times, Macron’s announcements were supposed to close the sequence of the “grand debate”, which was designed as a decompression chamber for the Yellow Vests movement, having been initiated more than 5 months ago. But the result is unequivocal: if Macron relies on a change of method to break the verticality in which he locked himself, in essence, he persists and signs…

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The following information comes from a Yellow Vest under the name of “Julien Pcmoi” and offers an insight into how the police actually manage, or rather don’t manage, the so-called “maintenance of law and order” (propping up the Macron regime). The gist is that the police forces are extremely badly managed by the state and the already thin resources are stretched like an elastic band. There is a total disconnect between the world of the Yellow Vests and the world…

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Supporter of Emmanuel Macron, the senior civil servant Jacques Attali believes that the Yellow Vests movement will persist. He notes the “pessimism” of a society where the middle and working classes no longer see a future for their children. Invited to “Europe 1” on April 19th, Jacques Attali has once again donned his oracle costume, even if it means taking a few liberties with reality. The influential senior official, who has advised many governors since the accession to power of…

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Who are the actual “breakers“? 50 soldiers and 20 policemen came to destroy a completely harmless piece of work serving as a meeting point for the Yellow Vests… Below is the description of the “sudouest“ news agency concerning what happened. Law enforcement came to the Campanile roundabout – a symbolic place for the struggle of the Yellow Vests in the fortified town – to destroy the work erected by the protesters. Rumours began to rustle during the night of April…

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After a catastrophic December, the “great debate” and its developments allowed the government, for a period of time, to regain control over its action and communication. For macronism [a word that encapsulates the essence of Macron’s policies – ed], exiting this period of the “grand debate” nevertheless reopens a series of contradictions, not only tactical but also strategic. These contradictions call into question not only the capacity of the president to ensure and maintain order in relation to possible new…

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On the eve of Act 22, in Nantes, while the Yellow Vests were organising a workshop of banners and posters for the demonstration on Saturday, 15 of them were arrested, and 14 of them were placed in custody. Preventive arrests with the clear purpose of preventing them from demonstrating. In the context of repression, these arrests may seem innocuous or trivialised. But these are to be taken very seriously and say a lot about the danger represented by the “anti-breaker”…

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A short distance away from the announcements of Macron following his “grand debate”, Act 22 had as its main theme the defence of the right to protest, which is being more and more challenged by the recently implemented “anti-breaker” law. In Toulouse, the repression took a leap aimed in particular at enforcing the prohibitions to demonstrate within the city center. The response of the Yellow Vests was clear: a slight rebound for Act 22. In Toulouse, Yellow Vests took over…

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April 13th in France marked the final group of sanctioned Yellow Vests rallies before the April 20th “ultimatum-2”, which will serve as the sequel to the first ultimatum that took place on March 16th. More about what this means later. The bulk of the action of Act 22 took place in Paris and in Toulouse. Paris In Paris, where I was, the main sanctioned march started at Place de la Nation and terminated at Place de la République, with a…

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A packed house at the Bourse du Travail for a real debate, during the close of the grand debate of Macron, and a stone’s throw from the European elections. On the platform, figures like Jérôme Rodrigues, Torya Akroum of the Rungis collective, François Boulo, the “lawyer of the Yellow Vests“, or Juan Branco, a lawyer close to the La France insoumise; but also researchers like Ludivine Bantigny or the sociologist Frédéric Pierru. A warm atmosphere and slogans chanted in unison…

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The following mini film was created by a Yellow Vest who goes by the name “Stef B” and recounts their journey from ignorance to realisation concerning what’s happening in France, detailing along the way the “slaps” they received that helped them to pull their head out of the sand.

What marked Act 21 of the Yellow Vests movement the most is probably not the demonstrations, but the great success of the second edition of the “Assembly of Assemblies of Yellow Vests” held in Saint-Nazaire on April 5th, 6th, and 7th. Indeed, the more than 200 delegations of nearly 700 people representing 10,000 Yellow Vests throughout the country tried to lay the groundwork for the structuration of the bottom of the movement, saying openly not to recognise any self-proclaimed leader….

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When faced with the bludgeoning of a Yellow Vest in Besançon, the Minister of the Interior evoked actions that “may occur”. Commenting on another, older scene, a gendarmerie commander delivered a different vision. The commander of a group of mobile gendarmes in the National Gendarmerie Michael Di Meo acknowledged, in an excerpt of a report broadcasted on April 7th on BFMTV  (the full version was broadcasted on April 8th), that Yellow Vest protesters could have been subjected to violence by…

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The first Yellow Vests protest of April, and the 21st consecutive one as a whole, took place across France against the background of uncertainty as to what the Macron regime will do now that the fake “grand debate” has ended. Paris In the capital Saturday’s protest took the form of a sanctioned march that covered 10km – from Place de la République to La Défense – with the theme of denouncing tax evasion and general financial fraud. Below is the…

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FALSE GOOD NEWS! The Constitutional Council yesterday (April 4th) censured the provision on the administrative in-advance ban on protests, which made up the government’s well-known “anti-breaker” law. At first it seems like good news … but on the contrary, it is only the tree that hides the forest! Why we shouldn’t rejoice at all? This provision was unrealistic in view of constitutional principles! And that is why Emmanuel Macron himself referred to the Council of Sages (Constitutional Court). Why? First…

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Is there rapid-fire justice tailored to the “Yellow Vests“ movement? The prison terms or suspended sentences identified by “Basta!” show the extent of the judicial component in the crackdown on the Yellow Vests movement. Very numerous immediate appearances, dossiers quickly thrown together, convictions sometimes without concrete proof of the alleged facts, or for simply for having the will to participate in a demonstration that then degenerated: magistrates and lawyers give some elements of analysis of these court decisions. Yellow Vests…

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Act 20 of the Yellow Vests took place on March 30th nationwide in France and happened against the background of last weeks brutal beating of a female protestor in Nice. My reports on Acts 18 and 19 can be read here and here respectively. Paris The demonstration in Paris was focused on housing expulsions, energy cuts, and expensive accommodation. It should be noted that by law in France people cannot be thrown out of their homes before April 1st, since…

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The following text concerning merely a handful of the crimes of the Macron regime comes from the “revolutionpermanente.fr” website and was written by Flora Carpentier. The day after Act 18, when the determination of the Yellow Vests could not be swept under the carpet, to the great displeasure of Macron et al, the media broadcasts on a loop the damaged Champs-Elysees, avoiding to talk about severe wounds as a result of police repression. We relay the testimonials published on social…

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