>the anger is
>directed against Macron's iron-clad neoliberal "reforms" which have so
>far consisted of breaking the unions and giving tax cuts to the rich.
>
>And after this spree of spending on the rich, when we want to reduce CO2
>levels, what do we do? Of course, we pass the bill to those who
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:35 PM Carsten Agger
wrote:
> I think it's too simplistic to describe the Gilets Jaunes in France as
> the right wing's "future electors out swinging clubs".
>
Carsten, I agree with the points you are making, although you don't see
that in what I wrote. The main line of
Thank you Brian for this statement, more clear than ever - I think you are
getting to the root of the problem ‘signalled’ by the gillets jaunes protests.
I have one simple question: What kinds of new institutional forms are required?
Or phrased differently, what types of new political design
Thanks for these texts, Patrice. Cohn-Bendit's fears of authoritarianism
notwithstanding, it's clear that until the left proposes forms of
collective investment that can respond simultaneously to climate change and
to the predicament of the squeezed lower classes that Guilly describes, all
the
Aloha,
Below Guilly's op-ed, links to two other Guardian features worth looking
at, today's The Observer's analysis of the Gillets Jaunes movement, and
a sum-up of the interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit ("we wanted to oust a
general, they want a general in power") which nicely illustrates the
