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Anarchists Return to Paris to Re-establish the Paris Commune by...


... you guessed it, smashing in some windows...


Reuters carry a video report about the protests as a whole including what the protesters are actually protesting. France 24 reporter Aurure Dupuis gives some info about anarchists in Paris during an otherwise peaceful protest back in April this year. Indeed those peaceful protesters were upset by the violence of the anarchists. Oh well. Maybe direct action and insurrection aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Early this march the BBC reported on the protests, which included such inteeresting and ultimately quite harmless things as schoolkids barricading their schools. Amusing as these measures were, a later report included video of miscreants marring an otherwise peaceful march in Paris.

Al Jazeera offers a similar line to the BBC - overal peaceful, marred by a few bad apples. Naturally The Guardian offers a childlike ignorance of basic economics in its coverage of the issue of labour law in France, but still toes the same line as Reuters, Al Jazeera and the Beeb about the peacefulness of the protests as a whole. Read the comments for some hilarity and some historical insight*.

That paragon of fair and accurate reporting known as RT posted an article about French anarchists in Nantes making a nuisance of themselves over the state-of-emergency law. While I sympathise re the grievance the measures they took are just bizarre and self-defeating. Naturally since RT pushes a heavy statist editorial position they over-egg the pudding by trying to give the impression that these noisy idiots are more menacing or dangerous than they really are. But nevertheless I can't help wondering...



There is a pointless and stupid argument going on online whereby anti-statists of various stripes are declaring theirs the one true religion, and all others false. If real anarchists are into vandalism, does that mean only vandals can be anarchists?

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* Three or four guys in the comments argued over the concepts of class struggle and class consciousness. This was interesting to me as I intend to write up a study on historical materialism and what a heap of unfalsifiable shit it is.

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