WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #346 - Yellow Vests internationally 6 years later (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 One aspect that has received little media coverage is the resumption of

the yellow vest in different countries as a symbol of struggle[1], or
even the struggle of people belonging to the same movement (Belgium). In
Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Poland, Taiwan,
Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, Bulgaria, the United States, Ireland, Serbia,
Senegal, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, Montenegro, South Africa, Israel,
demonstrations in December 2018 and early 2019 took up the Yellow Vest
as a banner of anger. Similarly, explicit marks of solidarity were sent
from both sides of the Mediterranean in the midst of the Hirak movement
in Algeria. The contagion of this symbol led Egypt to preemptively seize
all Yellow Vests at customs and prohibit their sale (police
authorization was required to buy them). Let us recall that in France
too, wearing a yellow vest in the city was punishable by a fine of
EUR135 in 2019 (a fine that was actually illegal but that many people
had to pay).

Let us not idealize this international mimetic, which has remained very
fragmentary, because these demonstrations with yellow vests will
mobilize only a few people, and there has not been a movement in these
countries identical to that in France. However, this shows the effect of
identification, or even possible contagion of radical social movements
and through this, how the oppressed of different countries can quickly
find the means to build links uniting their struggles. It is essentially
a question here, in the wave of protests and uprisings of 2018-2019, of
the expression of the shared feeling of belonging to an oppressed
people, against a deaf power. On the other hand, if we seek to keep
alive the hope of a real international extension, the most recent
example is the Arab Spring movement (2010-2011). In history, we identify
waves of uprisings that are contemporary with each other (sometimes
revolutionary), which influence each other (or not): Atlantic
revolutions (1776-1804), from the United States to Haiti via the French
revolution; 1848, "Spring of Peoples" in Europe, temporally close to
revolts in the Chinese Empire and against British colonialism in India;
European revolutionary wave 1917-1921; 1968 (France, Italy, Japan,
etc.), etc.[2]

Notes
[1]Images of such demonstrations in different countries can be found in
the film The History of the Yellow Vests by Us (38'00'' - 39'35'' and
1h35'07''- 1h35'22'')
A summary is available on the Wikipedia page: "Yellow Vest Movement in
the World"
[2]A Global History of Revolutions, dir. L. Bantigny, Q. Deluermoz, B.
Gobille, L. Jeanpierre, E. Palieraki, La Découverte, 2023

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