I hope that you are able to resist this, over here in USA this has been going on for a long time and it is just another failure to stand together and resist the hegemony of the corporations.  We are about to get a good dose of it here as the post-WWII generation starts to retire and we quickly eat up all the under-funded pensions.  Assuming, and I think there are good reasons for the assumption, that we can oust the Republican party from the Presidency and the Congress over the next couple of elections we will be looking to Europe for ideas.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

My experience of student politics is that leftist are more interested in principles and rightists are more interested in power. Leftist are idealists and rightists are pragmatic. Leftists bicker and infight, while rightists just insert themselves as cogs in the machine and make their way up.

It's actually amazing (and encouraging) that the left actually manages to win elections sometimes. When they do, they honestly try to do the best thing even if it spoils their chances of re-elections.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper