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1. b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:27 UTC b9AcE

   Authoritarian-Capitalist Macron's government forces through the immensely unpopular pensions deterioration by simply ignoring parliament entirely and decreeing it law using article 49 paragraph 3 of France's constitution.
   The only way to reject this de facto dictatorial act now is for Parliament to depose the government.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:09 UTC b9AcE

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     • Antifa Enternasyonal

     'Riot police units were "entrapped" [=kettled] by protesters near Place d'Italie in Paris.'
     Video from/via @AntifaEnt elsewhere,
     April 6, 2023.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:10 UTC b9AcE

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     "
     capitalism
     exploits 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏
     destroys 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆
     suppresses 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎
     Let's fight together!
     "

     The Kurdish antiauthoritarian feminist slogan "Women! Life! Freedom!" that spread from the feminist antifascist freedom guerrillas of northern Kurdistan, through the Women's Revolution of Rojava and then through Rojhelat to all Iran, on to the world,
     reported yesterday in Paris protests against the authoritarian-capitalist Macron-regime's recent dictatorialism...
     ...picture and info via militant left in Iran.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:11 UTC b9AcE

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     A scene from Paris this Tuesday, showing the police continuing to riot in defence of chaos-causing authoritarian-capitalist Macron's dictatorial act.
     #ClassWar

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:12 UTC b9AcE

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     • A general view shows protesters gathering at Place de la Republique during a demonstration as part of the tenth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform in Paris, France, March 28, 2023.
     Pic: Nacho Doce/Reuters

     • French police remove burning garbage bins in front of the entrance of the administrative court during clashes at a demonstration as part of the tenth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform in Nantes, France, March 28, 2023.
     Pic: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:13 UTC b9AcE

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     France keeps standing against police's riots for authoritarian-capitalist Marcron's dictatorialism.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:14 UTC b9AcE

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     "CGT union says 3.5 million join anti-pension reform protests in France"
     Live-blog: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230323-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-9th-day-of-nationwide-protests-as-france-s-macron-stands-firm-on-pension-reform

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:15 UTC b9AcE

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     • A masked protester stand near a fire amid clashes during a demonstration as part of the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Paris, France, March 23, 2023. The slogan reads "Empty fridge = violence of despair".
     Pic: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

     • Protesters stand near burning garbage bins during a demonstration as part of the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Nantes, France, March 23, 2023.
     Pic: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

     • Protesters attend a demonstration during the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Paris, France, March 23, 2023.
     Pic: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

     • Journalists work in front of French CRS riot police standing on position amid clashes during a demonstration as part of the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Paris, France, March 23, 2023.
     Pic: Yves Herman/Reuters

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:16 UTC b9AcE

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     "Hundreds of thousands on strike in France",
     according to major newspaper Aftonbladet in Sweden,
     against authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government's dictatorial act of bypassing parliament to deteriorate pensions in spite of about two thirds popular rejection,
     going on to report of "burning trash, blockaded streets, shut schools and 280000 voices echoing over the streets just in Marseille" against the chaos-causing government's act.

     The police keep using tear gas and water cannons in their rioting for the dictatorial act against the people,
     whilst around 80 secondary schools and universities have barricaded their premises with trash against the dictatorialism.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:18 UTC b9AcE

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     The authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government "requisitions refinery workers" to break the two weeks of strikes that are a part of the huge protests against the pensions deterioration which the chaos-causing Macron-government pushed through by dictatorial decree ignoring parliament and the two thirds popular rejection.
     https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-requisitions-workers-refineries-after-two-weeks-energy-strikes-2023-03-21/

     Pic by Stephane Mahe/Reuters: "French energy workers on strike raise their hands in approval to vote on wether to continue their strike to protest against French government's pension reform plan in front of the oil giant TotalEnergies refinery in Donges as French parliament set to vote on pensions reform bill, France, March 16, 2023."

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:19 UTC b9AcE

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     Some scenes from the popular protests against authoritarian-capitalist Macron's government in Paris now, after the no-confidence votes failed with by an extremely close margin.

     Video from AP via the major newspaper Aftonbladet in Sweden.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:20 UTC b9AcE

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     The authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government passed the no-confidence votes with a margin of just 9 votes, out of 577, after reports of harsh conformity whipping to allow for a continuation of the chaos-regime after it pushed through pensions deterioration rejected by two thirds of the populace by simply bypassing parliament by decree, a.k.a. the "dictat" of the word "dictatorship".

     If Macron has any shred of decency there will now be an immediate resignation because this all shows the government has no actual mandate,
     so it won't because Macron hasn't.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:21 UTC b9AcE

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     Mood in Paris these days...
     A picture from ~17h ago.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:22 UTC b9AcE

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     "Students outside Nanterre University, Paris, the gates of which are blocked by trash bags."
     Pic: Michel Euler/AP/TT

     "in the face of impasse [deadlock]
     mass revolt"

     The authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government absurdly claimed its dictatorial act of decreeing pensions deterioration without allowing parliament to vote was "in defence of democracy" due to a political deadlock over its economic violence proposal.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:22 UTC b9AcE

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     More messages to authoritarian-capitalist Macron today, I would assume...

     • "A destroyed car placed by dock workers blocks the Marseille port entrance in Marseille, southern France, Friday, March 17, 2023."

     • "Students walk past a graffiti that reads, "strike, blocking, sabotage" at the closed Nanterre university, outside Paris, Friday, march 17, 2023."

     • "A burning container placed by dock workers blocks the Marseille port entrance in Marseille, southern France, Friday, March 17, 2023."

     • "A student walks past the blocked entrance of the Nanterre university, outside Paris, Friday, march 17, 2023. Banner reads 'general strike till the total withdrawal'."

     Pics: Daniel Cole/AP, Michel Euler/AP

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:23 UTC b9AcE

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     Reuters reported on the people's defence against the dictatorial act of economic violence yesterday by the chaos-causing authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government that 'Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said some 310 people had been arrested by police and he promised to crack down on trouble-makers.

     "Opposition is legitimate, protests are legitimate but causing mayhem is not," he told RTL radio.'

     Pic:
     "Demonstrators take cover behind umbrellas as they gather in Nantes to protest after French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne used the article 49.3, a special clause in the French Constitution, to push the pensions reform bill through the National Assembly without a vote by lawmakers, France, March 16, 2023."
     Stephane Mahe/Reuters

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:24 UTC b9AcE

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     A message in Paris in response to the authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government's dictatorial act yesterday:

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:25 UTC b9AcE

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     Paris police rioted against the people for defending parliamentarism and the people of Bordeaux and Marseille joined in the defence.

     I merged two videos from AFP.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:25 UTC b9AcE

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     Some scenes of the people's defence against the Macron-government's dictatorial act yesterday as well as the police's violent support for that act, in Dijon, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Rennes and Toulouse:

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:26 UTC b9AcE

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     Also the leftist/far-left democratic socialist "France Unbowed" (La France Insoumise) say they will call for a vote of no-confidence in the authoritarian-capitalist Macron-government over the dictatorial forcing of pensions deterioration by disregarding parliament.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 14:46:27 UTC b9AcE

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     Paradoxically, crypto-fascist Marine Le Pen announces they will file a motion of no-confidence in (to depose) the Macron government.

     As usual with authoritarians, "it's only okay when w̲e̲ do it" is a core principle.