By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
WE didn’t have to look too far or dig too deep to find who is behind the violent student “protests” across France that have seen schools burnt down, teachers attacked, equipment smashed and property including shops attacked and looted.
During the last week more than 500 French schools remained closed as students set fires, blockaded schools, and clashed with riot police around the country.
Even Gemini AI admitted to the obvious:”The current wave of French student protests over classroom conditions, underfunding, and teacher shortages involves a mix of organized student unions, national labor groups, and prominent left-wing political entities.”
And no prizes for guessing who was behind the recent student protests against One Nation and Pauline Hanson: The National Union of Students (NUS), the primary coordinators of the national day of action and walkouts in Australian capital cities; High School Anti-Capitalists, who promoted the rallies to high school students, and; Socialist Alternative who were involved across the board.
The BBC, as pointed out by Paul Joseph Watson, has been softball reporting the rioting as “student protests over teacher shortages and classroom conditions” – the same teachers being attacked by the mobs and the same classrooms they have been smashing up and burning down.
The ABC actually admitted that the students had been rioting, but again suggesting it was all somehow justified because of “dilapidated schools and staff shortages”. They made no mention of teachers being attacked, schools being burnt down or classroom computers destroyed.
The real and underlying reason for the rioting is more likely that rise of French populist-nationalism and the recent election of nine of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Party to the French Senate. Australia’s leftists came right out and admitted to “the problem”.
The communist/socialist left in their various guises simply hate the idea of having to live under a populist-nationalist government that does not facilitate their pet global causes like “climate action”, “LGBTQ+ rights”, “gender identity”, “student and worker solidarity”, “diversity, equity and inclusivity” and so on.
The left is a global movement that is quite happy to live under so-called centrist or centre-left governments, like those of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Australia. The EU, of course, reflects all those leftist values, because the left has, essentially completed its march through the institutions of the West – even into the boardrooms of the global corporations they claim to despise.
The left lives for political power and when they don’t get their way they resort to violence – or as they put it – direct action. Even the Australian students’ National Day of Action could barely hide the violence seething below the surface as the brainwashed young mobs vented their spleens against Hanson.
Direct Action, for the left historically, is an umbrella term for economic or political action that bypasses standard democratic or institutional channels such as voting or lobbying, and while it can be nonviolent with strikes, sit-ins, or blockades, the broader definition explicitly includes militant disruption, sabotage, and property destruction.
This is exactly what the French students have been involved in and what was simmering under the surface of the protests by the same student mobs who rallied in Australia.
The 19th century revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin developed what he called Propaganda of the Deed (propagande par le fait), which described striking, symbolic and often violent acts that are intended to provoke the populace, demonstrate state vulnerability, and ignite a wider revolution.
This ideology and its tactics were adopted by later movements such as Antifaschistische Aktion, which arose in Germany in the 1920s and 30s and then re-emerged as Antifa in the United States in recent decades, maintaining strongholds in the Democrat-dominated northwestern states of Oregon and Washington.
Antifa employ a tactic called Black Bloc, in which protesters wear matching black clothing and face coverings to act as a unified, anonymous group engaging in property destruction and clashes with police during demonstrations.
