Rebellion And Repression In France

 "Hundreds of thousands" protesting. 6,000 arrests so far. (Says ABC News, U.S. Which leaves out a young person deliberately blinded in one eye, shot by police, another loses a hand reaching for a police explosive device shot at protesters.) 

85% of those arrested are schoolchildren. The protests are prompted by years of decayed school buildings and understaffing so bad that there is now an uprising by huge numbers of students.
Criminal neglect of the educational system? What do you expect from a country ruled by a rich financial speculator, a hustler who has never contributed anything to society, Emmanuel Macron?Of course he has accomplices. Such a person could never become president without the support of various elites, sections of the media and other power segments of society.

There was one time when this egotist Macron ate shit with a hapless grin on his face: when Trump, in front of the media, ostentatiously pretended to pick dandruff off Macron's suit while loudly describing there was dandruff there. Says something about both Trump, who degrades and abuses people to establish and maintain psychological dominance, and Macron, who bent to the power relationship of the U.S. vis-a-vis France. France, indeed all of Europe, bows to the U.S. 

But do they really have to? What is the damn point of the EU if its various nations STILL act so WEAK? Shouldn't the alleged unity result in greater power?

It should. Maybe old habits of subordination die hard. And to think of all those years of propaganda about how the Soviet Union "subjugated" the states that were in its orbit, until it all fell apart.
I hope I live long enough to see the day when this other evil empire collapses and the remnants are swept into the dustbin of history.
 

There he is, holding his hands like a little schoolboy while Trump humiliates him in front of the world's gaze. Eat Shit Macron!

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Recent details of the uprising in France, mainly by students, from democracynow.org:

 "In France, more than 250,000 people marched in over 40 French cities Tuesday. It was the largest turnout yet in demonstrations that began more than two weeks ago, when high school students started blockading their schools. The students are protesting staff shortages, crowded classrooms and run-down buildings. Labor unions joined in support, along with parents, teachers and university students. Paris had the biggest march — about 56,000 people, according to the Interior Ministry. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff have been hurt in clashes with the police, calling it “the heaviest ⁠toll in decades paid by the school system.” This is a middle school science teacher in Strasbourg."