This needs to spread to the U.S Our Democrat vs Republican nonsense gets us no where.

the yv's should publish their own list of traitors, that would be a shock to the elites who think they are untouchable

"Jupiter" Macron is heading for a big fall!

I hope France's working class will be the first ones to bring out the proverbial guillotines!!!

Interesting that Macron needs to mobilize 85000 police...Did I not read that a few days before Christmas, there was a concern that police might not show up for that Saturdays protest because they hadn't been paid? I mean, Macron's neoliberal goons can make all the threats and laws they want...If the enforcers don't get paid and stop actually enforcing, he's basically done...

The violence of police repression and the severity of legal restraints on the right to protest will rise or fall in direct proportion to the resistance mounted against the state by the yellow vests. Peaceful protests will be infiltrated by provocateurs. A strategy of confrontation plays into the hands of the fascist neoliberal government. IMO, what would disrupt the oligarchy most effectively would be a general strike. Simply shut down industry, governmental bureacracy, transportation, and commerce. We're beginning to see the extreme adverse effects that a partial governmental shutdown is having in the US. A general strike would multiply that by a thousand-fold. It would hit the capitalists where they live.

Brickbats and bonfires, or waving placards and shouting for Macron's resignation, won't stop the advance of neoliberal fascism. Yes, a general strike would lead to hardship. As it dragged on, people would begin to suffer if they couldn't get adequate food or housing. In France, medical care is guaranteed, which is an advantage French workers have over their comrades in the US. However, I see no other path to change than to jam the wheels of the capitalist juggernaut. Violent resistance will be countered with greater violence—the police and military forces of the bourgeois state have the intelligence-gathering and superior weaponry required to put down an uprising. But they can't stop people from walking out of factories, abandoning their trucks, buses, and trains, shuttering their shops, or leaving their desks and service counters. A general strike could not be broken by scabs. If the French want to bring down the Macron government, disabling the capitalist system is how to do it.

It was delusional at the outset that Macron had or has any solution that could or can satisfy the working class .

All appeals to uniting 'any' nation under the flag of the bourgeoisie are long gone .

From here on in the French working class must find its way to the PES and the PES to it .

Capitalism and nationalism are the 'dead ends' of history , forward to the International Socialist revolution !!

"Macron’s declaration last November that it is legitimate to honor the military career of Marshal Philippe Pétain, the fascist dictator who collaborated with the Nazi occupation, made clear that he is seeking to erect an authoritarian regime, in the guise of the “defense of the Republic”.

Didn't the Nazis maintain a "black list" of all those considered an enemy of the state.

Macron and the French bourgeois are the social and ideological heirs to Vichy France and their Nazi German partners. A glance at the facts of history makes it fairly clear to me that the Nazi plan of a "European common market" dominated by Germany, and also France and using the Reichsmark as the common currency is essentially the scheme that has come together as the European Union. It is the anti-worker , nationalist bourgeois dream for Europe -essentially the same one that failed temporarily in 1945 - resurrected and updated for the 21st century. With Britain and British national interests expelled, it will lead to war again.

Another great report about YVs movement that is growing and building up its moral power and self governing via contemplating extra constitutional revolutionary structures of people governance as I commented via yesterday with a link.

As expected we are witnessing French oligarchy primitive Pavlov reaction and cliche of belligerent futile response that should be dismissed.

The patronizing vulgarity and disingenuous contrition of Macron, epitomizing Marie Antoinette of oligarchic class and her gang of perfumed hoodlums is so obvious and so insulting basic intelligence of entire working class that can only be unequivocally condemned in strongest terms and understood as open blatant admission of guilt of their horrific crimes against population when facing proverbial guillotine at People's Revolutionary Tribunals in not so distant future.

This helpless panic among elites, confused lashing out with impotent violence and castrated fury of naked chieftains and French aristocratic and bourgois parasites against victims of their own moral decay and self degradation amounts to not more but a whimper of a fart against historical tempest that will wipe them out from surface of this earth into abyss of proverbial hell and will bring down this abhorrent capitalist edifice of horror, terror, pain and suffering of working class, on their unworthy aristocratic heads.

This insane belligerence of French ruling elites stemming from their horrific fear and extreme cowardice facing historical reality of their inevitable demise will soon make them into nothing but little children holed up in some pretend Versailles of their minds confused, defenseless vulnerable when flood of socialist revolution begins to raise.

We can see it in there eyes already they are trembling in fear as history inevitably set the stage of systemic civilizational change from barbarism of the past ten millenniums to socialism of the future.

perfumed hoodlums ! another good one, kalen ! keep rollin' them out off the line --

Where I come from we have an expression that catches it pretty well: Macron and his cronies are pissing into the wind.