Les Survivants is an example of new anti-abortion activism in Europe targeting young people with digital tools and disinformation campaigns
One in two French citizens want to participate in Macron’s Great Debate across the French nation. High stakes for Macron and French democracy. The rest of Europe will be watching.
Las manifestaciones recientes en París son mucho más que los chalecos amarillos. Asistimos a una rebeldía casi planetaria extendida.
Almost everyone agrees on the analysis of what caused this movement: the growth of inequalities, the marginalization of certain regions and social categories, austerity and neoliberal politics. Then accounts diverge.
They want Macron to know that they are the people and they will be ignored no longer. So perhaps there is democracy in the streets after all.
"MPs from France, we inform you of the People's Directives for you to transpose them into LAW. "
The movement today is national, and in part nationalistic, very difficult to talk to about the reform of Europe. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to a pan-European movement like DiEM25.
Commercy's Yellow Vests offer a political solution to the movement: autonomous local committees, direct democracy, sovereign general assembly, delegates with a precise mandate revocable at any time, rotating responsibilities.
What can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously
