I don’t think we’re ever going to get to utopia again by going forward.”
From dystopia to utopia: some thoughts on the confinement in France
Tag: France
France: Far-right mob attack gay bar and left-wing hangout in masked rampage through Le Mans
On Saturday night, a mob of forty far-right militants, carrying iron bars, baseballs bats and batons, rampaged through the city of Le Mans, France …
French anarchists on the strike for pensions
The following statement from France’s anarchist CNT-AIT union analyses the nature of yesterday’s general strike, which has brought out …
We are here, even if Macron doesn’t want it: One year of the Gilets Jaunes
On November 16th the Gilets Jaunes movement marked one year since it burst onto the scene and threw a spanner in the works of President Macron’s …
French migrant hunger strikers communique: ‘No Liberty, No Equality, No Fraternity for us’
Immigration Detention Centres, Centre de Retention Administratif or CRA in French.
Mutu: rethinking our radical media
The seriousness of our times hardly needs restating.
Paris: anarchist bookshop attacked
Librairie Publico, the anarchist bookshop in Paris run by the French Anarchist Federation, had been attacked.
IWA: Solidarity with Yellow Vests, for a general strike
The anarcho-syndicalist international has published a public call backing a general strike and supporting a statement on the Yellow Vest movement w…
France: Act 12 rallies in face of repression
After months of clashes, “Act 12” of the main Gilet Jaunes (yellow vest) marches today is setting itself squarely against police and fa…
The Movement as Battleground Fighting for the Soul of the Yellow Vest Movement
This analysis of the happenings in France was originally published by Crimethinc on 6th December 2018.
Don’t abandon your Yellow Jackets
The name sounds a bit like something to do with a lifeguard’s alliance, but this movement’s name (gilets jaune) comes from their high vis jacke…
French and German anti-nuclear campaigners block uranium transport
At early morning hours last Saturday, a group of French and German anti-nuclear activists blocked the uranium transport train.
Review: The Anarchists in Paris, May-June 1968
This handy little pamphlet appears in the 50th anniversary year of the events of May-June 1968 that shook France and the world.
France: Four people face charges for assisting refugees
Four people were arrested for helping migrants cross the border into France. It is the latest case over citizens providing aid to refugees in Fra…
Dijon: large refugee squat evicted
Yesterday early morning French police, with assistance from border police evicted the XXL Squat in Dijon, where about hundred asylum seekers lived.
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