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An Anarchist’s Perspective of the Yellow Vests

From Anarchist Black Cross Gothenburg The following text is an article by EUNOMIA, translated from french to english by ABC GBG After four weeks of demonstrations, blockades, occupations, general meetings, analysis of all kinds, here is one with a radical left and/or anarchist angle. Sorry to all those who are

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#Insurrection In The End of Times – Pushing The Disorder Further

French Territory: When all that remains is the prospect of misery and death, then the only fitting response is to create, out of the destruction of what is killing life… Originally published by Carbure. Translated by Ediciones Ineditos and Otto Mattick. Images by Autonomies. Saturday December 1st, the Gilets Jaunes

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The #YellowVests in #France

French territory: A movement of three hundred thousand, with 3,000 blockades, what is the Gilets Jaunes movement? Originally published by Anarchist Communist Group. The Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement emerged in France in November. It got its name from the high visibility tabards that those who take part in the

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A Brief Note on the Yellow Vest Movement

via IT’S GOING DOWN The Yellow Vest Movement presents something of a conundrum for anarchists. To quote The BBC, “It is quite clear there were agitators or “casseurs” at the sharp end of the clashes with police. We saw groups of people both from the anarchist far-Left and from the

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On the Gilets Jaunes: Dispatches from France

via communists in situ The following is a collaborative effort of translated analyses from France focused on the Gilets Jaunes movement between Agitations, Carbure, Otto Mattick & Ediciones inéditos. More texts will be translated in the coming days. In the last few days, the Left has struggled to politically apprehend

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#GiletsJaunes – The Yellow Vest Movement in #France

The yellow vest movement (Gilets Jaunes) movement on the French territory: Between “Ecological” Neoliberalism and “Apolitical” Movements. Originally published by Crimethinc. The past weeks have seen a massive confrontational movement arise in France opposing President Emmanuel Macron’s “ecological” tax increase on gas. This movement combines many contradictory elements: horizontally organized

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A Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Imaginary Party

From The Transmetropolitan Review tl;dr: you don’t need or want the people who you know aren’t “with you” to be with you. really, you don’t -Wendy Trevino, Revolutionary Letter, 2018 A Brief Introduction To The Text A long time ago, on a vast plateau in central France, I was helping

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Gap, France – Freedom for the «7 of Briançon»

sent 11/1/18 They are facing potential incarceration for helping migrants in danger in the French Alps. Bastien, Benoit, Eléonora, Juan, Lisa, Mathieu et Théo will face justice on November 8th in Gap. They are prosecuted for «helping undocument foreign nationals to enter national territory, in organized gang”. The envisaged penalty

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Wild Boar Turns Tables on French Hunters, Wounding Two

from DW   The men were injured when the animal turned and attacked, leaving one of them in critical condition. A debate over hunting has continued to gain momentum in France due to the high number of humans being killed. Two hunters were injured in the western French region of

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Banner Hung In Solidarity With #BlackDecember

In the spirit of Black December, we hung a banner as a gesture of solidarity to all anarchists in prison, all those on the run, and all those fallen in combat with the state. This is a minor act, one of many daily manifestations of our solidarity with imprisoned comrades.

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