{"id":391057,"date":"2018-12-30T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/frances-yellow-vest-protests-and-the-fraud-of-melenchons-citizens-revolution\/"},"modified":"2018-12-30T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:08:34","slug":"frances-yellow-vest-protests-and-the-fraud-of-melenchons-citizens-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/frances-yellow-vest-protests-and-the-fraud-of-melenchons-citizens-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests and the fraud of M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s \u201ccitizens revolution\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>France\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests and the fraud of M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s \u201ccitizens revolution\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests in France and strikes organized on social media in Portugal have unmasked the petty-bourgeois milieu of union bureaucrats and official \u201cleft\u201d parties in Europe. The eruption of a movement in the working class against social inequality blindsided them, busy as they were promoting austerity and war in presidential palaces and parliamentary speeches. Having played no role whatsoever in the movement against French President Emmanuel Macron, they are now trying to strangle it.<\/p>\n<p>The Left Bloc (BE), the Portuguese allies of Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s Unsubmissive France (LFI) party, does not hide its fear and loathing towards strikers and \u201cyellow vests.\u201d BE official Francisco Lou\u00e7\u00e3 denounced them: \u201cThis is a far-right operation. They are using social media to whip up aggressive politicization in far-right terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9lenchon, however, tries to influence the \u201cyellow vests,\u201d pompously declaring they have vindicated his populism. On his blog, he writes: \u201cI am jubilant. Current events are, I believe, the confirmation of the theoretical model formulated in my theory of citizens revolution summarized in my book <em>The Era of the People<\/em> .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If M\u00e9lenchon claims victory in the vapid realm of postmodernist theory, it is because for him, the \u201cyellow vest\u201d movement is in reality a defeat. The class struggle erupted when the \u201cyellow vests,\u201d including tens of thousands of M\u00e9lenchon voters, took action independently of the LFI. Masses of workers in France and internationally have received a priceless lesson: that real struggle against the ruling elite requires opposing the anti-Marxist forces that for decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/29\/mele-d29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 France\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests and the fraud of M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s \u201ccitizens revolution\u201d By Alex Lantier 29 December 2018 The \u201cyellow vest\u201d protests in France and strikes organized on social media in Portugal have unmasked the petty-bourgeois milieu of union bureaucrats and official \u201cleft\u201d parties in Europe. The eruption of a movement in the working class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}