The violence is precisely what the Italian student movement is seeking to avoid at all costs while what has happened in Greece is exactly what former president Cossiga would like to occur in Italy: Let the students go on a rampage and destroy property without police intervention so as to turn public opinion against them.
There will be a general strike on December 12th throughout Italy by the largest labour union CGIL and the student movement. The other unions have chosen not to participate. They prefer negotiating with the rightwing government- or more correctly, caveing into government diktats. The rightwing government has once again succeeded in dividing the labour union front with promises just as in the 2002-2005 period.
the last paragraph was stunning journalism.
you'll likely go far, me lad, please keep us updated.
compliments also on superb english. ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
bored armies.
you equip and mentally prepare thugs to guard the goodies, they hang around trying to stay battle-ready, and eventually their own desire to prove how macho they are triggers something colossally stupid, such as this.
i've a nasty feeling greece is just the fore-runner for other places, where also an inchoate rage is building, dying to release.
the remark about no-one minding seeing banks burn twanged some ancient chord when i read it.
right wing governments beware, your bluff is starting to be called, bigtime.
people have a limit... ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
i have the exact same feeling. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
