By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit

Exile in Happy Valley

Paris is burning again but this time the fire is spreading and it’s spreading fast. What ostensibly began as the latest upheaval in a long, proud tradition of Parisian student uprisings has exploded into a human inferno scorching every corner of the European map.

From Belgium to Albania, from Ireland to Greece, 120,000 kids in thirty cities across Germany, 150,000 in tiny Serbia, nearly a million now back in France. They’re torching the Hotel de Ville in Paris, they’re storming the Chamber of Deputies in Prague, and it’s still spreading. Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Lithuania… the orange glow of a thousand dumpster fires stretches out past the horizon, farther than any human eye can see.

While America keeps its subjects busy with make-believe democracy at the ballot box, the kids in Europe are fucking around with the real thing in the streets and I can’t be the only stateside anarchist who wants a taste of the uncut stuff.

The politicians and the media, both here and over there, are giving themselves a hernia trying to wrestle the narrative of the largest protests Europe has seen in generations into something they can control and something they can control you with. They will all try and sell you on the notion that this is a left-right thing, whether it’s another Putinist conspiracy against liberal democracy or some kind of sharia refugee riot.

France’s snooty, nepo baby princeling, Emanuel Macron appears to have thrown in his lot with his frenemies on the far-right and embraced the notion of this all being the work of some kind of professional Bolshevik vanguard with foot soldiers ready to be deployed by George Soros to any given village at any given minute.

Such primetime ready fairy tales may make it easier for Macron to sell a Vichy style police state to pearl-clutching Parisian debutantes in axolotl skin coats at the Louvre, but reality is way more complicated than propaganda. This thing began with high school students marching out of their overcrowded classrooms and into the streets over the subhuman living standards in the compulsory institutions of one of the wealthiest nations on earth, and we’re not talking about a shortage of number 2 pencils here either. We’re talking about dilapidated classrooms packed to the rafters with zero air conditioning in 104-degree heat.

So, the kids filled the city streets and set up blockades, but things didn’t really kick off until Macron sicked the pigs on them, using barely less-than-lethal military technology on unarmed teenagers and then hauling them off, bloody and mauled, in mass arrests by the thousands. This gestapo response infuriated the French people and was rightly condemned by everyone from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch. It was also the last straw of many that brought a country pushed too far by austerity and forever wars into the streets with their children.

This included the populist and distinctly non-partisan Yellow Vest Movement, who mobilized workers and farmers across the country and nearly doubled the marching population from a few hundred thousand students to nearly one million pissed off poor people of all ages.

Vampires like Marine Le Pen and her gruesome ilk back at Fox News are trying to blame this whole thing on wild barbarian refugees from the darker nations, but even their target demographic isn’t buying this bill of goods. That’s because what the students and Yellow Vests are really jacked about is the cost of living exploding in the first world while their leaders get rich bombing the rest of the planet to fucking bits, and this is the reality the elites across the west are desperately trying to cover up.

What’s torching the streets of Europe right now is a fundamentally anti-imperialist uprising. Ageing skinheads are joining Arab kids in lighting cop cars on fire from Belfast to the Balkans because that continent has become a morally and fiscally bankrupt vassal state of Pax Americana.

This thing didn’t even begin in France. Albania’s Flamingo Revolution goes back to February and was tipped off by its austerity pimping government selling a nature preserve called Sazan Island to Donald Trump’s Zionist son-in-law, Jared Kushner so he could turn it into another fucking golf course for over-privileged pedophiles. Germany’s rapidly expanding student movement goes back even further to 2025 and was sparked by the Bundestag’s open plot to reinstate the draft while Germany became the largest European military supporter of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and housed tens of thousands of American shock troops bound for Iran.

This is where the fucking refugees come from. They are waves of pissed off students and working-class men fleeing the warzones America assigns Europe through its overwhelmingly American staffed occupying force in NATO, and this is the fundamental truth that all Europeans need to accept if they ever want their countries back.

Europe as we know it is every bit as colonized by the United States and its corporate quislings in Belgium and Germany as America once was by the Redcoats, and the so-called European Union is a part of the occupation.

Some of this is just karma. Western Europe had hosted the world’s most murderous rogue’s gallery of colonialist fiefdoms for centuries, going back to Rome. These are the ghouls who invented white supremacy to enslave entire continents and simply slaughtered every man, woman, and child in others to make room for the plantations. America is the Antichrist birthed by the British Crown and rendered a sovereign mercenary state with the assistance of the enlightened French aristocracy.

We only reached global empire status during World War 1 by breaking the stalemate between the old empires of the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia as they gnawed on each other’s throats, before quickening their collapse with wartime loans and redrawn borders that shifted the balance of global financial power to American banks and made a second world war all but inevitable.

The evils of the Axis Powers were the last desperate attempt by the old empires of Central and Southern Europe to revive their former glory with the gory super-statism of fascism. America let the fire burn until a Soviet victory became inevitable and then swooped in at the last minute to decapitate the fascist leadership before hiring much of their rank and file to run a newly colonized European continent.

The US dumped $13 billion dollars in aid onto the ruins of their former masters, but every dollar came with conditions that cost the people of Europe another strip of their sovereignty. The excuse was protecting the post-fash fatherland from communism, but this was always just an excuse.

The Soviet Union was in literal shambles after Operation Barbarossa. Stalin was a monster who couldn’t afford global domination so, he embraced nationalism at the Comintern and proposed neutrality pretty much everywhere else. America rejected the offer at every turn. NATO was officially formed in 1949 but the OSS (soon to become the CIA) began America’s stay-behind mission known as Operation Gladio before the war had even ended.

Declassified documents show America propping up fascists in Greece in 1945, fixing Italy’s national elections in 1948, and giving Western Germany similar treatment during their federal elections in 1953. The Soviets actually offered to join NATO in 1954 and only formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 after the US remilitarized Western Germany and assimilated Bonn into NATO instead of Moscow.

Meanwhile, the movement to integrate Europe into a single, western/northern dominated economy developed in tandem with NATO and Gladio, with the United States covertly funding European federalist movements to the tune of $4 million dollars between 1949 and 1960 alone.

The European Union developed out of American front groups like the European Movement, with its early integrationist precursors like the European Coal and Steel Community explicitly advocating leaving defense up to NATO which would afford America the ability to maintain 31 permanent bases and 18 additional forward sites across Europe with an occupying force of over 80,000 soldiers.

Out of the 32 current NATO members and the 27 members of the EU, 23 belong to both, and while Donald Trump and Emanuel Macron feign rivalry for the fed-up populists back home, the two organizations they rep continue to spread and integrate, with the EU and NATO explicitly recognizing the other in separate 2022 “strategic concepts” as essential, mutually reinforcing partners.

In layman’s terms, it’s a fucking trap and one the size of an entire continent.

So, Europe is pissed and Europe deserves to be pissed, but they will remain slaves to the Atlantic-Zionist elite until they drop their colonialist posture towards the third world and its refugees and accept that they are all victims of the same leviathan. When I see Yellow Vests marching beneath Palestinian flags on the smoldering ruins of dead empires, I am joyfully scarred by a sliver of hope that such a populist conspiracy against a new generation of technofascism is more than just an anarchist daydream…

But only the streets can prove me right.

What more can I say…?

I pray for fire. I pray for democracy.

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