It will not please everyone, but in the streets of London we are talking about an Italy that is not only synonymous with ridicule: "That smoke that enveloped the Pantheon! Besieged the Parliament on December 14! That was amazing! ", It enhances the feminist writer Nina Power, as soon as I say where I come from.
History at the Courtauld Institute of Autonomy, the '77 and Tute Bianche is a subject of study. And there are also those who imitates: "The idea of 'block book' - reflects Calogero, expatriate art student - have always taken from us." "Ben Ali! Mubarak! ... Cameron, you're next! "(You're next!) Reads a billboard, one of the most eloquent of the student march on 28 January, in the heart of the British capital: the fifth major event held in three months against the cuts in public spending, the government imposed austerity bicolor Cameron-Clegg, and especially against the terrible tripling of tuition fees.
What happened to British students not at all shy? The last time they took to the streets had been in the paleolithic 1998. Nobody expected this chaos. Among the newspapers, three out of four are still standard-bearers of the Order Patria & Gossip. The wealthy white elite and the Oxford-Cambridge continues to be a strong oligarchy.
The suburbs of recent immigrants are increasingly poor, the vast conurbation of London is such that those who live north of the city does not know the south, and whole areas are given over to consumerism degrading, catatonic. Leading the protest, there are only students of good family? Has emerged in recent months, it is true, a generation's call clicktivist, decent man who mobilize militants using Twitter and Facebook.
My friend Laurie Penny, twenty-four years old and already stable in New signing statement, is an authority in this regard. Yet even the most liberal newspapers have been able, or unwilling, to grasp the real news: the first ones in line to take the beatings, they returned to be the children of the slums, of Peckham, Brixton, Lewisham.
The representatives of the universities define the tactics employed, but then this is the black minority, Arab, Caribbean, minor, often not even enrolled in school and do not follow any strategy to form the backbone and the new face of the protests. And it is thanks to them that the movement is now "news" and fear.
And then it is absolutely true that the "violent" - that is, those that are not limited to parade in masks and waving flags - are isolated from the rest of the square and the democratic intellectuals as a minority of idiots "troublemakers" (troublemaker) as happens in Italy. The practice of assault in banks and places the symbolism is by no means exclusive to the black bloc.
And it is the prestigious University Goldsmiths, not a social center, to claim the right hardness of the protest: "Nothing compares to the violence faced by children with broken promises and the ongoing repression." And when the poor are shocked Evening Standard: "The teachers give vote: 10 to riots (riots, riots), those have the answer:" Yes, so what? ".
The rebellion of these short months it has strengthened with anxiety brooded for years. It is interconnected with the rest of Europe in crisis. It is this ability to stay on "amalgam" without losing the backbone, to remain in the assembly without losing sight of the complexity of the challenge, which will play the game in the coming months.
Paul Mossetti, writer and journalist, born in Naples in 1983, one of the founders of the activist groups and The Call Through Europe. He lives in London. 
History at the Courtauld Institute of Autonomy, the '77 and Tute Bianche is a subject of study. And there are also those who imitates: "The idea of 'block book' - reflects Calogero, expatriate art student - have always taken from us." "Ben Ali! Mubarak! ... Cameron, you're next! "(You're next!) Reads a billboard, one of the most eloquent of the student march on 28 January, in the heart of the British capital: the fifth major event held in three months against the cuts in public spending, the government imposed austerity bicolor Cameron-Clegg, and especially against the terrible tripling of tuition fees.
What happened to British students not at all shy? The last time they took to the streets had been in the paleolithic 1998. Nobody expected this chaos. Among the newspapers, three out of four are still standard-bearers of the Order Patria & Gossip. The wealthy white elite and the Oxford-Cambridge continues to be a strong oligarchy.
The suburbs of recent immigrants are increasingly poor, the vast conurbation of London is such that those who live north of the city does not know the south, and whole areas are given over to consumerism degrading, catatonic. Leading the protest, there are only students of good family? Has emerged in recent months, it is true, a generation's call clicktivist, decent man who mobilize militants using Twitter and Facebook.
My friend Laurie Penny, twenty-four years old and already stable in New signing statement, is an authority in this regard. Yet even the most liberal newspapers have been able, or unwilling, to grasp the real news: the first ones in line to take the beatings, they returned to be the children of the slums, of Peckham, Brixton, Lewisham.
The representatives of the universities define the tactics employed, but then this is the black minority, Arab, Caribbean, minor, often not even enrolled in school and do not follow any strategy to form the backbone and the new face of the protests. And it is thanks to them that the movement is now "news" and fear.
And then it is absolutely true that the "violent" - that is, those that are not limited to parade in masks and waving flags - are isolated from the rest of the square and the democratic intellectuals as a minority of idiots "troublemakers" (troublemaker) as happens in Italy. The practice of assault in banks and places the symbolism is by no means exclusive to the black bloc.
And it is the prestigious University Goldsmiths, not a social center, to claim the right hardness of the protest: "Nothing compares to the violence faced by children with broken promises and the ongoing repression." And when the poor are shocked Evening Standard: "The teachers give vote: 10 to riots (riots, riots), those have the answer:" Yes, so what? ".
The rebellion of these short months it has strengthened with anxiety brooded for years. It is interconnected with the rest of Europe in crisis. It is this ability to stay on "amalgam" without losing the backbone, to remain in the assembly without losing sight of the complexity of the challenge, which will play the game in the coming months.
Paul Mossetti, writer and journalist, born in Naples in 1983, one of the founders of the activist groups and The Call Through Europe. He lives in London.
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