{"id":385790,"date":"2018-11-20T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-is-the-president-of-the-rich-yellow-vest-protesters-speak-out\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:15:59","slug":"macron-is-the-president-of-the-rich-yellow-vest-protesters-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-is-the-president-of-the-rich-yellow-vest-protesters-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMacron is the president of the rich\u201d: \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>\u201cMacron is the president of the rich\u201d: \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters speak out<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Monday, the powerful protests in France against inequality and government austerity continued in numerous regions across the country. Tens of thousands of participants in the \u201cYellow Vest\u201d demonstrations maintained roadblocks and barricades. Traffic was heavily affected in the major cities. Bordeaux was practically brought to a standstill throughout the morning, and numerous important highways were blocked off.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of fuel depots were affected by the actions, including in Toulouse and Rennes. On R\u00e9union Island, barricades remained in place yesterday, with tense standoffs between demonstrators and police and calls by the local police prefecture for reinforcements from Paris. Many of the protesters have declared they intend to \u201ccontinue until the government gives in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employer associations warned yesterday against a \u201cshutdown of the economy.\u201d However, as the transportation companies call for workers to stay away from the demonstrations, large numbers of drivers are supporting or joining it. A roadblock has already been called for Saturday in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, announced his plan to break the roadblocks, invoking \u201cmajor security risks, particularly of terrorism,\u201d to which the \u201cmassively mobilized\u201d police forces would be unable to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The protest movement, which includes workers, independent truck drivers and small businesspeople, was initiated via social media outside the control of the trade unions, which collaborate with the government in imposing austerity. It raises burning political issues.<\/p>\n<p>To move forward, the movement must turn to the working class, the only social force&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/20\/gile-n20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cMacron is the president of the rich\u201d: \u201cYellow Vest\u201d protesters speak out By our reporters 20 November 2018 On Monday, the powerful protests in France against inequality and government austerity continued in numerous regions across the country. Tens of thousands of participants in the \u201cYellow Vest\u201d demonstrations maintained roadblocks and barricades. Traffic was heavily [&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-385790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}