It’s worth paying attention to what’s going on in France. !, page-12

As usual the far-right are as hostile to the yellow vests and their demands as Macron is .

"But Maréchal Le Pen provided a disheartened testimony on the “Yellow Vest” protests that is not without interest. After arriving on the Champs-Elysees at 2 p.m. on Saturday, she concluded that the road was occupied by dangerous communists: “The movement was totally absorbed by extreme left militants. One could hear the words ‘Death to capitalism!’ If that is the ultra-right, then things have truly changed.”"

The MSM and all the "official" parties from the trade union leadership, the fake "lefts", Macron and the far right are hostile to any independent protests of the youth and working class.

Slanders depicting “Yellow Vest” protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse

By our reporter
28 November 2018

In the aftermath of last Saturday’s demonstrations in Paris, the French political establishment has unleashed a torrent of political invective against the “Yellow Vest” protesters on the Champs-Elysées. Ministers, police and the media have vied with each other to denounce workers, professionals and small business people who protested in yellow vests as “ultra-left” or neo-Nazis. Their propaganda is totally false.

The reactionary petty-bourgeois pseudo-left reprised the same insults as Darmanin in order to present the “Yellow Vest” protesters as virulent neo-fascists. Mediapart, which is close to the middle-class New Anticapitalist Party, attacked them for having organized “very right-wing demonstrations” or even being “a little brown.”

On Saturday, the police carried out mass arrests of what they declared to be the most dangerous among the protesters. Officers combed through video footage from security cameras in Paris and data provided by helicopters that maintained a heavy presence above the city. This weekend, 101 people were placed in custody. In the fantasy world promoted by ministers and journalists, this was done to isolate a kernel of the horde of genocidal anti-Semites and anarchists braying for blood who assaulted the capital on Saturday.

What did the police find? In short, nothing. Those placed in custody, in the overwhelming majority, matched the typical profile of a “Yellow Vest” protester: workers who came to show their hostility to social inequality and the policies of the government of Emmanuel Macron.

Le Figaro admitted yesterday: “None of those arrested this weekend in Paris at the revolt by the Yellow Vests had outstanding charges, either of the ultra-right or ultra-left … Numerous signs and slogans left along the street reference the ultra-left, notably anarchist logos. One must nonetheless look to the evidence: the majority … are in fact ordinary angered people emboldened by the anonymity of collective action. They are workers, mechanics, cooks, carpenters, farmers and plumbers, aged between 20 and 30.”

The verbal attacks unleashed against the “Yellow Vests” by ministers and journalists reflect the panic of ruling circles toward a movement of deep social anger over inequality and against Macron, the president of the rich. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/28/fran-n28.html