The revolutionary protest

France gets up to teach the world a lesson about popular power
Unity is the formula and the French people are demonstrating it with pride and courage.

The outrage has thrown thousands of French people into the streets, tinged with a revolutionary fervor of deep historical roots that at the time marked the future of Europe and the world.

Aware that the power of the people remains there, latent and capable of transforming the social and political scene, the group known as "the yellow vests" has taken to the streets and has gradually capitalized on the frustration of a society tired of the setbacks provoked by the neoliberal policies of the government of Emmanuel Macron, until bringing together citizens of all social strata and strata. The message sent to the world by this movement could not be clearer: the Revolution has not died.

Street protests in France are also beginning to arouse a reaction among those who are designated to counter them. The images of police and firefighters turning their backs on their commanders to show solidarity with the demonstrators constitute undeniable proof of the cracks in the increasingly weak wall of the political and institutional structures surrounding Macron, who undoubtedly begins to clearly perceive the Incalculable dimensions of the crisis caused by their decisions.

With the attention set on the streets of Paris, other societies in others in countries governed by corruption and abuse have to ask themselves how the French are doing to show such audacity and determination. Because to put in check a government allied with the big capitals is not easy; and facing the shock forces is extremely dangerous. In some Latin American countries there have been protest movements of great magnitude in recent years, but that revolutionary spirit capable of defeating fear and frustration does not seem to have the capacity to remain alive long enough to generate results and sustain them.

The message emanating from the protests in the Gallic country speaks of the imperative need for unity. Peoples divided between rich and poor, between natives and migrants, between opposing political tendencies or religious beliefs cleverly elaborated to generate animosity and rivalries between citizens have created weak and vulnerable societies, incapable of identifying and proposing objectives and goals of common benefit because they are conditioned to look for personal and group goals and objectives.

The great challenge proposed by the French people is to unite against a neoliberal system that has resulted in the endemic weakness of the States. Governments -especially the weakest politically and institutionally- find themselves under the pressure of a superstructure of immense economic power, which has seized political power by undermining the foundations of democracy and has turned States into accomplices of their plans

In this way and without greater opposition, they seize all the most valuable goods and resources of nations to sell them back to their legitimate owners at prices of usury: mining, agriculture, water, oil, energy and even the transformed native crops, thanks to patents legalized by bribes, in corporate property.

Unity is the formula and the French people are demonstrating it with pride and courage. Unity with the determination not to allow foreign interests to prevail over those of the people, which must decide the course of their history. It is a lesson of enormous value in the moments that Latin America lives and it is worth taking it into account.