France. The movement of yellow vests wins without labor unions.

The movement achieved a partial victory because it was not trade-union.

Self-organization of the movement was reached through social networks. Decentralization and readiness for violence played a role. They broke the government of France which agreed to concessions and froze petrol prices. Unlike the protests headed by the centralized labor unions there was here neither management, nor obvious leaders who could be bought or intimidated (now it becomes clear what is the criticism of labor unions from supporters of the decentralized movement of independent Workers and Local Councils).

Decentralized tactics led to fast exhaustion of forces of special police which never dealt with anything like this. Protesters did not gather on one large demonstration therefore it was not clear for police where they have to concentrate main forces. Government unexpectedly began to lose street war. Government had nobody for negotiations and it receded.

The сonsiderable part of participants represented working class 40+ are. Unexpectedly the railroad workers was breaking rails. It was the real guerrilla against things, and as a result police officers did not know where to move so they sprayed the forces. But everything occurred because these impudent morons from working class did the dirty deed without any coordination with leaders of labor unions!

It seems that rather early some people started talking about death of labor movement and disappearance of working class...

Events that happened in France remind partial realization of the ideas from the book «L’insurrection qui vient» prepared by the supporters of autonomous revolutionary resistance.

P.S. Here it is possible to read an interview with the direct participant of events in Paris Ksenia Yermoshina. It contains a lot of information and certain statistics. https://politkrytyka.org/2018/12/05/pod-zheltym-zhyletom/?fbclid=IwAR1Zvj7Bw-V0Ac4zDWGOj6DS_HgVMCKhifgZxtRXeZQ54w6pTLrTcjggleM