Archive of gilets jaunes

With its background in responses to the flurry of reforms that Emmanuel Macron has sought to push through since 2017, the Gilets Jaunes has already become a major political event in Europe. In this article, Cedric Durand looks at the background to the movement, and asks where it might be heading.

Sebastian Budgen discusses the Yellow Vests protests in France, the social composition of the movement, its relationship to established political forces, and the absent strategy of the Macron project, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

Much has been written about the gilets jaunes and their relation to both politics, of the left and the right, and historical waves of labour unrest. In this article, Joshua Clover argues that the gilets jaunes are in fact a texbook example of a contemporary riot, and may be best seen as an early example of an approaching wave of climate riots.

Eric Hazan interviewed about the Gilets Jaunes protests.

Antonio Negri on the Gilets Jaunes and the new wave of protests in France.

The social warfare unleashed by Macron in the past 18 months has sparked anger in the French population. In this article, Frédéric Lordon analyses the gilets jaunes protests.