Ever since President Emanuel Macron pushed through Parliament a raise in the retirement age from 62 to 64, the French public have been pouring into the streets with millions of protesters demanding the new law be revoked. Even firefighters and some police have joined in the protests — although many cops have continued to serve as the agents of state violence and cracked down on protesters.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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