Report by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective. There weren't too many hi-vis jackets in evidence when we arrived at one of a series of roundabouts on the "rocade", the ring road, at Alès in south-east France on Tuesday March 19. Would there be enough protesters to pull off the roadblock that had been agreed … Continue reading Roadblock!
The sunshine revolution
Report by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective. Saturday March 16 2019 will probably go down in history as the day that Macron and his government gave up waiting for the Gilets Jaunes movement to fade away. Huge numbers of Yellow Vests packed the Champs Elysées in Paris for Act 18 of their revolt and were … Continue reading The sunshine revolution
Stop NATO in London!
Activists in the UK are getting organised to oppose the NATO summit announced for London in December 2019. The first meeting will be held in the Whitechapel area of the capital city on Sunday March 24 from 2.30pm. The last NATO summit in the UK was in Newport in 2014 and a campaign by Stop … Continue reading Stop NATO in London!
Ultimatum
Photo : Mathias Zwick / Hans Lucas Here is a translation of a new article from Lundi matin, a website close to the Invisible Committee, famed authors of The Coming Insurrection. After four months of full-on revolt in France, the promised insurrection seems closer than ever to fruition... On the streets, the Algerian authorities are … Continue reading Ultimatum
Tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets of southern France
An eye-witness report from Act 16 of the ongoing Yellow Vest uprising against neoliberalism, by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective. We had just positioned ourselves downwind from the teargas canisters that had been fired towards us from the ranks of riot police protecting the Sous-Préfecture, the French state's HQ in Alès, southern France. Then suddenly … Continue reading Tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets of southern France
“May our yellow sparks of revolt set the world ablaze in 2019!”
Since the start of the Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vests movement in France, mysterious and poetic Yellow Letters have been distributed on the occupied roundabouts and on social media. This is a quick translation of the powerful and inspiring 15th missive, as published on the influential radical website lundi matin, which is close to The … Continue reading “May our yellow sparks of revolt set the world ablaze in 2019!”
“Police everywhere, justice nowhere!” – Gilets Jaunes on the streets of Nîmes
Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective reports from Nîmes in southern France and finds that a deeply-rooted belief in social justice lies behind the unprecedented uprising. I had been warned not to say anything to anyone about the meet-up point for the Gilets Jaunes protest in Nîmes on the afternoon of Saturday December 29. People were … Continue reading “Police everywhere, justice nowhere!” – Gilets Jaunes on the streets of Nîmes
Yellow fever: long live the revolutionary mob!
What would an anti-capitalist revolution actually look like, if it happened? That is the question that must be going through many an anarchist's mind as current events unfold in France. The Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vest movement has staged four successive Saturdays of startling and energetic mass mobilisations across France against the neoliberal Macron regime, … Continue reading Yellow fever: long live the revolutionary mob!
France on the brink: “Either we topple the system or it will crush us”
Things are rapidly hotting up in France. The Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vests movement, which started as a protest of hard-up working people against spiralling petrol prices, has transformed itself into a full-on uprising against the neoliberal regime of President Emmanuel Macron. Here we offer a slightly-rushed translation of a significant article published earlier today … Continue reading France on the brink: “Either we topple the system or it will crush us”
Organic radicalism: bringing down the fascist machine
“We have realized that a detachment of man from Nature, from the Life-Whole, leads to his annihilation… No longer does man alone stand in the centerpoint of thinking, but rather Life as a Whole does, as it reveals itself in all living things on earth”. On the face of it, this statement sounds rather good. … Continue reading Organic radicalism: bringing down the fascist machine
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