France

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  Oct 17th, 2019

  Which way off the roundabout

  Left or right? Forward or backward, or into oblivion? The fact of being of the working poor or near-poor describes the yellow vests more than any other, and their direction will be decided by the political projects constructed to include them. A Season in Hell Director Ethan Earle takes a look at where the yellow vests are heading next.
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  Oct 9th, 2019

  Introducing a new project

  Nearly 150 years after French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s masterpiece, contemporary France is roiled by its own Season in Hell, a deeply fractured and unsettled political moment in which dark phantasms grow large and the path to a better world is anything but clear. Introducing a new series of political analysis from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office – A Season in Hell: Burning issues in French politics.
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  Jun 4th, 2019

  The core of the yellow vest movement rejects the far right

  Quantité Critique (Critical Mass) is a group of sociology lecturers, doctoral students and undergraduates who have been investigating social movements in France since September 2018. For their survey on the ‘gilets jaunes’ (yellow vests) movement, they distributed questionnaires in a number of national Facebook groups linked to the movement ...
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  May 24th, 2019

  Ideological divisions in the ‘yellow vest’ movement

  The ongoing mobilisation of yellow vest adherents is arguably the most enduring and significant social movement in France since May 1968. It will doubtlessly have profound political consequences, though toward what end depends on the political direction it takes going forward.
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  Nov 26th, 2018

  The Yellow Vests in France

  A car drivers’ uprising, or something deeper? A look at the anti-social ‘climate’ policy of Emmanuel Macron that sparked the largest, most sustained social movement in France in a generation.