is a militant research collective based in Paris. Formed in the wake of the 2016 Nuit debout protests, they seek to recast the frameworks of workers' inquiry and co-research in the present conjuncture, with an analytical focus that attends to both situated trajectories of mobilization and new dynamics of capitalist exploitation. More information can be found on their website.
The uprising of the YVs (Yellow Vests or the “mouvement des gilets jaunes”) and its persistent tenacity mark a point of no return. In our opinion, there is a before and an after the YVs. At least in Europe and in terms of class struggle.
The sphere of social reproduction will be central not simply to defining schisms within the movement, but to defining the horizons of the struggle and the multiplication, both possible and preferable, of its sites. The battlefield of social reproduction is one on which we can move beyond the triptych: prices of petrol, buying power, and tax revolt.
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