Blocking demonstration of the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaune) in Lille, France on November 17, 2018. Sylvain Lefevre/ Press Association. All rights reserved.
Commercy's Yellow Vests offer a political solution to the movement: autonomous local committees, direct democracy, sovereign general assembly, delegates with precise mandate, revocable at any time, rotation of responsibilities. They call on the federation of local groups on these bases to avoid political recovery, self-proclaimed leaders, or delegates without an imperative mandate from the grassroots.
The spontaneity of the movement of yellow vests, its heterogeneity and disarray, can cause drifts of fear without anyone knowing where they hail from. But is this any reason for those who appeal to the people at every opportunity, left-wing activists, libertarians, trade unionists, to stand on the sidelines when these same people finally take their own affairs in hand? Who, in 1789, said that the revolt of the peasants would end in the Republic?
