The Acorn – 47

Number 47

In this issue:

1. Yellow voices
2. Defending nature means fighting capitalism
3. Zombie archaeology
4. Everybody expected the Neoliberal Inquisition
5. Tall tale of “eco-terrorism”
   
6. Acorninfo

1. Yellow voices

The Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, movement in France is the most important political phenomenon to emerge in Western Europe so far this century. It has smashed through the barriers of political stagnancy and sterility which so often disempower and stifle spontaneous expressions of popular discontent.

The yellow banner of revolt has rallied parts of the population previously unreached by political organising and the relentless determination of hundreds of thousands of men and women has shaken the citadels of neoliberal power to the core. As well as the rubber bullets, grenades, water cannon and tear gas deployed by the French state against the uprising, another major weapon against the Gilets Jaunes has been the corporate media.

Constant lies, smears and alarmism in…