Are the Gilets Jaunes Today’s Sans-Culottes?
“Pour le peuple, il y a toujours la misère!” Anonymous Gilet Jaune
“Pour le peuple, il y a toujours la misère!” Anonymous Gilet Jaune
These days, even if you don’t read online journals, or thick books not asssigned by universities, Google is enough to tell you how messy the Indian economic and social situation is. Earnings are low. Unemployment has reached new heights especially among the young and, with the adoption of automation and privatization, this will only worsen.
One should not dismiss the odious statements from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its Sangh Parivar, and say that they are spewing venom.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican presidential candidate , gives a thumbs up to his supporters at Mexico City’s main plaza, the Zocalo, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP/Christian Palma)
Trumpism is not a uniquely American phenomena. It is the local variant of an ultra-right anti-establishment ideology that has a worldwide manifestation. In Europe there are right-wing anti-EU parties growing in many of the member states in the EU based on anti-immigrant policies and appeals to nationalism and economic protectionism to preserve jobs for native born citizens, as well anti-Islam[Read More...]