From the uprising Paris: correspondent of “International Worker Organizer” - May 17, 2016

We are all vandals!

At 2 pm the demonstration started and fighting day too. The first concentrations were the unions, with their balloons, flags and car sound.
Each one with their slogans and their groups, they began the demonstration toward the main avenue leading to the National Assembly.
As we moved to the head of the demonstration a sea of black cloths were formed in front of our eyes. Thousands of young faces disguised, as if prepared for a battle, they were forming the largest grouping of the demonstration.
As we approached the chants and banners, we heard "We are all vandals", "We are unruling", "We are not against the system, the system is against us". 'Paris debout, soulevé toi!' (Paris on foot, Rise up!)
The more we advanced in the demonstration, more police was seen, they also prepared for a battle.
They were not even 5 minutes from the formation of all demonstration that the hated "Service Order" (the clash forces of the union bureaucracies) separated the workers columns from the outraged youth of all ages.

They were few scattered flags of unions and parties leading, and police soon began to repress. The side streets were surrounded by riot police and 5 meters high shields. The first bomb that police fired, flew hundreds of bottles, stones, trash, and everything nearby. Anyway, the demonstration was still firm and each pump, attempt to arrest or confrontation with police, tens of thousands stood all, returned to the place where the incident happened and shouted "WE ALL HATE THE POLICE". Between cries of hatred when police threw the tear gas bombs, and ovations when he heard the roar of a smoke bomb, a window breaking, or a molotov, various groups rushed to help the injured, distribute a serum against the gas effect and to guarantee the demonstration was not disperse.
While that was happening in the front of the demonstration, back in the area of the Order Services did everything to be at the head, prompting many people to leave their own ranks to join the group forward, shouting "You are the collaborators!".
After two hours of this situation, the police could ambush the most combative sectors sought a way to break the siege and reach the National Assembly and the Prime Minister and managed to separate the demonstration between the side streets and the square, which it had clearly been the point chosen by the police to do the fence.
In the square, dozens of bombs fall so they had to disperse the protesters. Dozens of injured and tens of "marked" people prevent them from circulating in places where political rallies are made, as the Republic Square.

Dozens of arrests occurred before and during the demonstration, which passed across the country between direct combat against the police, in high schools shutdowns, strikes in various sectors, production stoppages at mines and energy, roadblocks, blockades docks… everything in the perspective to continue for the next few days, the 19, in which the Inter-Union calls for a new demonstration and partial strikes.
Everything, allowed and supported by the state of emergency… applying the “"anti-terror laws" against the people uprising.
Thus, the square yesterday was about "real democracy", today fought for an uprising.
The masses, youth, the exploited who are not in trade unions show they are a thousand times more in the first line of fighting than the leadership of the left currents and union bureaucracies. The "vandals" of Paris show the way despite them.
We will go with them from the heat of the fight.

Correspondent