The French Riots: Dancing with the Wolves
Against The Current vol. 120
Coleman, Yves
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/33
Date Written: 2006-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13206
In French suburban slang, to "dance with the wolves" means to provoke the cops, make them run and, obviously, to escape without being arrested. The unfortunate reality is much less romantic. The three weeks of recent riots may be seen as a long overdue political response to the profound racism of French society; but in this writer's view this uprising is more an index of desperation of French youth, of all national origins, than the beginning of a new political movement.
