INTERVIEW

• Shigeki Hori

Wear your yellow vest and meet us at Ron Point! --What the "voiceless masses" left behind under the neoliberal economy wanted

• Tadashi Matsuo

“Populism” is no longer an insult! Recovering the sovereignty stolen by the establishment ─ "Yellow Vests'' as an anti-austerity movement

• Kouichiro Kokubun

We must protect the basics of democracy, that everyone governs everyone, at all costs - What the Yellow Vests can teach us in Japan

CRITIQUE

• The violence of the demonstrations and President Macron's subsequent response (Yoko Yamada)
• Voices from the “periphery”: From the disappearance of the French left to the “yellow vests” (Jun Sunose)
• The fate of the yellow vest movement: ``revolutionary'' tectonic shifts in French society (Colin Kobayashi)
• LE MONDE diplomatique
• From "Le Monde Diplomatique"
• [Explanation]
• Get angry! Get angry!  come on! ──The time has come for the uprising! (Osamu Tsuchida)
• [Yellow vest feature]
• Why now? (Roland Bonelli/translated by Osamu Tsuchida)
• The French Uprising: When Everything Comes to the surface (Serge Alimi/translated by Osamu Tsuchida)
• Now we have so many friends - those who blockade Ron Point (Pierre Suchon/translated by Satoko Kawabata)
• The hidden power of female workers: Dreams of a “Second Popular Front” (Pierre Lambert/translated by Yoshifuru Murakami)
• [Archive article]
• Commoner class and tax injustice: The root of anger against taxes (Alexis Spiel/translated by Yuichi Ikuno)
• Re-examining labor laws from the ground up - for true "reform" worthy of the name (Alain Supio/translated by Kyohei Muramatsu)
• Transformation of the common class: Europe and France seen through statistics (translated by Cédric Hugler/Etienne Penissa/Alexis Spiel/Masato Fukuda)
• Nuit Duve: France's new democratic practice (Léa Ducret/Kyohei Muramatsu translation)

COLUMN

• In this society that is too polite to its rulers (Takeda Satetsu)
• Do 'violent rednecks' really exist? (Toshifumi Jinno)
• How did major British media report on GJ just before leaving the EU? (Mariko Sakamoto)
• “Riots” and the end of neoliberal globalism: the rise of exclusivist far-right forces or new communism? (Yoshitaka Mouri)
• Rising Country/Urgent Debate Where is the French 'yellow vest' movement headed? (Gen Hirai/Tetsu Ukai x Serge Kadryupani)
• Yellow vests are easy -- what is being questioned is not capitalism but the state (Yasu Kurihara x Kaji Shiraishi)

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