protests-in-europe

"Direct action enables people to develop a new sense of self-confidence and an awareness of their individual and collective power. Direct action is founded on the idea that people can develop the ability for self-rule only through practice, and proposes that all persons directly decide the important issues facing them. Direct action is not just a tactic, it is individuals asserting their ability to control their own lives and to participate in social life without the need for mediation or control by bureaucrats or professional politicians. Direct action encompasses a whole range of activities, from organising coops to engaging in resistance to authority. Direct action places moral commitment above positive law. Direct action is not a last resort when other methods have failed, but the preferred way of doing things."

"Dessous les pavés c'est la plage... (better known in its original form: Sous les pavés, la plage!)"

"Nous sommes tous des juifs allemands !"

"Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible."

"Laissons la peur du rouge aux bêtes à cornes !"

"L'imagination prend le pouvoir (ou plus simplement : L'imagination au pouvoir !)"

"La liberté, c'est le crime qui contient tous les crimes ; c'est notre arme absolue !"

"Vivez sans temps mort, jouissez sans entraves."

"L'humanité ne sera heureuse que quand le dernier capitaliste sera pendu avec les tripes du dernier gauchiste."

"Nous ne voulons pas d'un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d'ennui !"

"The favourite slogan, the one that caught on during the May 1968 fête in France was "it is forbidden to forbid". There is nothing to forbid the youth of Europe to reject both communism and capitalism. What will they build in the absence of both systems? Will their concept of building a new structure with a new philosophy mean willful self-destruction? This sounds insane but the youth of Europe is not insane."

"Ceux qui prennent leurs désirs pour des réalités sont ceux qui croient à la réalité de leurs désirs."

"Tout pouvoir abuse. Le pouvoir absolu abuse absolument."

"Contestation. Mais con d'abord."

"Ne me libérez pas, je m'en charge."

"Il est interdit d'interdire !"

"The revolution is unbelievable because it's real."

"Protesters have largely come from peripheral towns, cities, and rural areas across France and include many women and single mothers. Most of the protesters have jobs, including as secretaries, IT workers, factory workers, delivery workers, and care workers. All say their low incomes mean they cannot make ends meet at the end of the month. The movement is predominantly against a tax system perceived as unfair and unjust, but there are numerous grievances and differences of opinion. Most want to scrap the fuel taxes, hold a review of the tax system, raise the minimum wage, and roll back Macron's tax cuts for the wealthy and his pro-business economic program."

"From all corners of the country, French protesters— the vast majority of them men—came by the thousands in trains, buses and cars. But once together in the capital, the most concrete thing they shared was simply fury. Fury at President Emmanuel Macron. At taxes. At jobs that don't pay the bills. At politicians they accuse of stuffing their own pockets. At the elite. At banks. At 'the system.'"

"Esto no es una cuestión de izquierda contra derechas, es de los de abajo contra los de arriba"

"Vivimos en un país donde licenciados están en paro, el presidente de nuestro gobierno no sabe inglés…y la oposición tampoco"

"Mis sueños no caben en tus urnas"

"Políticos: somos vuestros jefes y os estamos haciendo un ERE"

"Nos mean y dicen que llueve!"

"No falta el dinero. Sobran ladrones"

"¿Qué tal os va por España»?- Pues no nos podemos quejar. O sea, que bien ¿no?- no, que no nos podemos quejar."

"No es una crisis, es una estafa"

"Nobody expected the #SPANISHREVOLUTION"

"No apagues la televisión… Podrías pensar"

"Tu futuro es ahora"

"¿Qué les vas a decir a tus hijos cuando te pregunten dónde estabas? ¿Viendo la tele?"

"Manos arriba, esto es un contrato"

"Ni cara A, ni cara B, queremos cambiar de disco"

"Rebeldes sin casa"

"Democracia, me gustas porque estás como ausente"

"Nosotros buscamos razones, ellos victorias"

"Cuando los de abajo se mueven, los de arriba se tambalean"

"Nos habéis quitado demasiado, ahora lo queremos TODO y lo queremos YA"

"No nos vamos, nos mudamos a tu conciencia"

"Sabemos el camino de vuelta al Sol"

"Democracia real ¡YA! No somos mercancía en manos de políticos y banqueros"

"Abajo el régimen"

"«Que no, que no, que no nos representan»."

"«Lo llaman democracia y no lo es»."

"«El problema es el sistema, la solución: LA REVOLUCIÓN""

"Islandia es el camino"

"«YES, WE CAMP»."

"«Violencia es cobrar 600 euros»."

"Ya tenemos Sol, ahora: ¡la luna!"

"No es una crisis, ¡es el sistema!"