Tag: Gilets Jaunes

In this issue:  

1. Deepening our resistance
2. Why I decided to fight: letter from a Yellow Vest prisoner
3. Julian Assange: enemy of the empire
4. The modern leftist
5. Rudolf Rocker: an orgrad inspiration
6. Acorninfo
   

1. Deepening our resistance

Synchronicity has a funny way of throwing together two apparently unrelated events in  a way that invites comparison.

This was the case, for instance, with Saturday November 17 2018, the day on which both the Gilets Jaunes in France and Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK were launched onto their respective national stages.

Initially, the comparison appeared to favour XR, from our perspective at least. In Britain, altruistic environmentally-aware protesters were battling to save the planet, while across the Channel the Yellow Vests were upset about a rise in petrol prices.

But that perception rapidly changed. Continue reading “The Acorn – 49 – read it here”