France's elites were quick to condemn the gilets jaunes protesters as stupid and backward. But as novelist Édouard Louis writes, they're just standing up for their rights.
It’s not just about the fuel tax; it’s about anger at ever-increasing burdens on the working class.
Reports on the Mass Uprising Over France's Gas Tax Hike
Hundreds of thousands of French citizens have donned yellow vests - “gilets jaunes” - and taken to the streets in protest against rising fuel prices. Who are these protestors and what do they want?
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Brazil Election: Landless Workers, Chomsky Meets Lula, French Left Leader, El Salvador Left vs Right, Transforming the UK, South Asia Women's Movements, Weekly Protest in Austria
Jean-Jacques Dessalines commitment to Black equality was far more radical than America’s founding fathers, who freed the U.S. from England but let Black Americans stay in chains for another nine decades.
Three Women, French Reds, Students and Workers in China, Swaziland Democracy, Guatemalans Fight Privatized Energy, Philippines Youth Rage Against Marcos Family
A pungent and exhaustive evaluation of the short-lived, pre-war popular front government of France, written on the heels of its demise by the brilliant French writer Simone Weil, with an introduction by the NLR editors.
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