France protest fire singes Europe

Even as France struggles to contain the chaos that has been triggered by Left-led protests, violence caused by similar agitations has spread across Europe. Students in Belgium have begun a stir against the inadequacies of their education system. There was a huge march in Lisbon in which tens of thousands of people participated on Saturday to protest rising costs of living and the country’s housing crisis. In Italy, Milan witnessed violence during weekend nights as protesters hurled stones and looted supermarkets, and cops had to use tear gas and water cannons. Students in Albania began agitating against corruption in the government. On the face of it, one of the most prosperous continents in the world suddenly appeared to be a bad place that is full of angry people. The real story is, however, very different: the protests are the work of what western commentators call the red-green alliance, the converging of the interests of Leftists of various hues and Islamists.

The trouble began last month as students and teachers at a high school in the Parisian suburbs called for a strike; the demand was for more staff and resources, which were duly met. Evidently, the demands were just a pretext for the troublemakers, so they, with all the might that the red-green alliance could muster, began a nationwide stir. Soon, it turned violent; jihadists joined in with Palestinian flags. That the stir was never about the state of education in France becomes clear from the fact that the agitators have themselves burnt schools. A Fox News Digital investigation identified 54 organisations and movements in the student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labour unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations, and international media outlets. “The protests started in an apparently spontaneous way in the disadvantaged, immigrant suburbs of Paris,” Nathalie Szerman, researcher in radicalization and extremism in France at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI), an American non-profit organization specialised in Arabic and Muslim media monitoring”, told Fox News Digital. “It quickly became clear that the violence demonstrated in these protests conveyed a huge amount of hate towards the ‘system’ and not much concern for better material conditions in schools, as dozens of schools across France have suffered vandalism and blockades, and many were even set on fire.”

Blaming the unrest on the “ultra-Left,” French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said the government would not be “intimidated” by violence. But President Emmanuel Macron is unwilling to rethink his liberal sympathies for Muslim immigrants. He has been making tough statements like “those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable,” but his tryst with multiculturalism makes him incapable of handling the war the red-green alliance has waged not against his government but against the entire nation. Like some other countries in Europe and Latin America, France may turn Rightwards.

Disillusioned with the Left’s ideological obsessions and the establishment’s inability to maintain order, Voters may be willing to give a chance to Rightwing parties. The Right’s rise, however, will depend on its ability to offer more than rhetoric: it must restore public order, defend national institutions, enforce the law impartially, and address legitimate grievances without instigating street violence. When governments appear helpless, voters increasingly seek alternatives beyond the political mainstream.

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