French mass rebellion grows and deepens
NOVANEWS
By Gloria La Riva and Nicholas Stender
Graffiti on a boarded-up store during a Yellow Vests protest reads "No Christmas for the Bourgeoisie" Photo: Marcel Cartier.
The French ruling class is being shaken to the core and the huge people’s struggle has just begun.
It began with the now familiar Yellow Vests movement, a militant street rebellion against intolerable economic conditions of poverty as the super-rich flaunt their wealth stolen from the workers.
With each day, the movement is rapidly deepening, sweeping across France, with mass popular sectors, high-school, university, working and unemployed youth, postal, port, firefighters, transportation and other unionists, and more, joining in.
After weeks of remaining silent while he oversaw the deployment of 89,000 police in ...