French Yellow Vests Celebrate One Year Anniversary As General Strike Looms
MONTPELIER, France — The Yellow Vest movement celebrated its first birthday over the weekend with convivial barbeques on roundabouts…
The Indypendent
Richard Greeman
Workaday activists are injecting a fresh sense of liberty, equality and fraternity into France.
Self-organized Yellow Vest Movement Threatens Macron Regime in France
Ignored by the president, distorted by the media, snubbed by the left, courted by the right, the self-organized mass movement…
The Merry Month of May: A Firsthand History of ’68 France
Where are the riots of yesteryear? This month marks the 50th anniversary of the wave of radical revolts and…
Echoes of May ’68 Reverberate Through France
Montpellier, France — On March 29, the ultra-conservative dean of the Montpellier University Law School was summoned to police…
Future History: Women’s Revolt Sparks Global Revolution
Excerpts from the 2117 high school history textbook “Then, Now and How” obtained by The Future Historians: ……
Ahead of Elections, A Turf War Rages Among the French Left
Montpellier, France — The good news this May was that French voters rejected far-right Marine LePen by a two-to-one…
Longtime activist, scholar and translator Richard Greeman writes to us from Southern France. The country is preparing for an election on Sunday. The ultra-right nativist Marine Le Pen is vying for the presidency against Emmanuel Macron, a former Rothchild banker. What Greeman observed at May Day rallies in Montpellier does not bode well for the left in France.