Europe’s political and media elites are hiding the truth about the riots in France.
They’re not only trying to conceal the scale of the disorder — with the BBC being lampooned for describing it as “mostly peaceful” — but the root cause.
They want you to think this is mainly about schools, education, and spending cuts. Or, perhaps Iran and Russia stoking the chaos.
But in reality it is about something else entirely.
What we are witnessing is a highly-coordinated, deeply ideological, and increasingly effective war against not just France but the West more widely.
At the heart of this revolutionary war — as columnist Melanie Phillips pointed out in The Times yesterday — is the so-called “Red-Green alliance”.
An unholy collaboration between far-left extremists, Islamists, and the Palestinian movement. This movement became unavoidable after the October 7th attacks, in 2023, as it spilled onto the streets of many Western cities.
But since then the Palestinian cause has morphed into a rallying point for an array of revolutionary communist, anarchist, Islamist, and anti-capitalist groups that do not merely want an end to conflict and suffering in the Middle East.
What they want is to dismantle or ‘deconstruct’ the West — as symbolised by the ‘ultra left militant’ who has just been arrested for burning down the historic Limoges city hall.
While peaceful protestors have certainly hit the streets, few leaders want you to look seriously at what lies at the core of the riots.
Here’s what you probably won’t hear on tightly-controlled debates on the BBC. Of an estimated fifty groups that have been involved in the protests, one digital study suggested that only 15 are student groups.
The rest? An assortment of radical left-wing unions, communist, anarchist, and Palestinian advocacy groups that are using the protests to advance a much broader revolutionary war against the West.
They do not really talk about schools at all. Instead, they demand the overthrow of capitalism, ‘imperialism’, ‘white privilege’, neoliberalism, and the West.
They are the offspring of the failed experiment with communism, before 1989, and the post-colonial, neo-Marxist, and critical race theories that have been trickling out of Western universities into wider society ever since.
Today, they are ruthless exploiting a West that has become dangerously divided, deluded, and demoralised, unable to fend off not only external enemies like Iran and China but internal enermies, too.
Through sheer incompetence and ideological extremism, politicians in the West have put this Red-Green alliance on turbo-charge by presiding over the disastrous policies of mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, an official state policy of multiculturalism that discourages second and third generation migrants in Europe from integrating, and by appeasing Hamas and Islamists in the Middle East.
But even worse, Western elites have also taken a sledgehammer to their own foundations, making it much easier for their enemies to thrive and multiply.
Increasingly, over the last century, political, media, cultural, and educational elites have trained young Westerners to hate their own civilisation — to reject their own culture, their own nation, their own home.
Young people rioting on the streets of Paris, Marseilles, Limoges — and now Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal — do not only reflect the failures of mass migration and integration; they are also showing us, through their actions, the failure of Western elites to give them any sense of attachment and loyalty to their own nation.
Western leaders have been shocked by the extent to which the young have turned against their own. But they shouldn’t have been. Because this revolutionary war started long ago — and Western elites helped set the stage for it themselves.
It was in the early 1990s when …