Re: There are protests all over the country...

Yes, I too couldn't help noticing how the right wingers here reflexively side with the police and the authorities against the young, and belittle the political expression of the young; basically, right wing boysexuals like boys as pets, not as persons who might have legitimate perspectives of their own. One cannot help comparison with 68, though this time, instead of la volonté générale contre la volonté du général, there is the slightly more emollient figure of Macron. Naturally, my heart and soul is with the students; my only slight worry is if this buttresses Le Pen in the run-up to the Presidential elections of next year. The victory of the RN would be a catastrophe for France and for Europe, just as it would be a major victory for the White House and its agenda of putting far right, pro-American, pro-Israel parties in power across the whole of Europe and South America. Extraordinary how sharp and clear the political battle lines are in today's world, isn't it? Extraordinary how vast the stakes. How different everything is from the world of just twenty years ago. If there is hope, it lies in the young...