On 26 March, the central London has been invaded by 500 thousand people took to the streets calling on the unions. There have been incredibly effective and coordinated attacks to symbols of big corporations, in stores such as Topshop, Boots, Vodafone. The Ritz was occupied by crowds of protesters, the city finance and shopping has become, suddenly, a land of toys.
And then the indiscriminate arrests, protests of 'indignant' charges on horseback, the real concern for the wedding at the door. All great events for a city too often anesthetized. But this is just the smokescreen raised by mainstream media. The real and urgent consideration to do about these events is this: who are the guys who are found to be five months, compare, imagine another way to take to the streets that is not just walking around with beer and sandwiches from point A to point B arm with the Guardian and applaud the youngster Ed Miliband on the prairies of Hyde Park? These guys come together for months without those mental superstructure that characterize us Italians.
They are not afraid to say, with candor, words like communism, socialism and anarchy. Do not fear the debate after work, before putting his head on the pillow. Do not believe the opinion of the recipes, the elder brothers of veterans. And even the big unions, since almost all students or temporary workers.
They are therefore "terrorists" and nothing more? Yes, they have their limitations, are not all particularly brave or ingenious, as indeed it is not British society as a whole, actually quite sclerotic. But it is the intermingling with other experiences, continental and not the strength of these guys.
From Italy to draw inspiration for the theory and that "youth subjectivism 'that from our '68 was immediately thrown to the winds, Egypt and Tunisia copied slogans, icons, even rhetorical references. Honestly I can not take more of that nostalgic trip in Italy organized in memory of the Seventy.
Or those who called for calm for fear that others exaggerate where they have failed. On March 26 a "commando" of teenagers, who until now had never played the "role" of black bloc, has occupied the store Fortnum & Mason, transforming it for a couple of hours in the agora of readings and music without twist a hair on anyone.
Not it was a prank, but a true "expropriation." To dozens of occupants handcuffed I believe it mattered very little if Cameron will remain in place. So I feel to say: do not look for it in Cairo, Tripoli or Tunis, the revolt. Do not project your frustrations and your hopes on lands that we know little, and what little is filtered by the hidden persuaders and their lackeys.
There is already much to do here, in an anthill with thousands of stories that are intertwined, they embraced and filling it, politically and culturally, but also sexually, ethnically, the streets covered with burning plastic and the nights spent at the police station, stories that could keep us busy for years to come, without being bored.
Paul Mossetti, and curious writer, born in Naples in 1983, one of the founders of the activist groups and The Call Through Europe. He lives in London, where he works in a publishing house and a bar. 
And then the indiscriminate arrests, protests of 'indignant' charges on horseback, the real concern for the wedding at the door. All great events for a city too often anesthetized. But this is just the smokescreen raised by mainstream media. The real and urgent consideration to do about these events is this: who are the guys who are found to be five months, compare, imagine another way to take to the streets that is not just walking around with beer and sandwiches from point A to point B arm with the Guardian and applaud the youngster Ed Miliband on the prairies of Hyde Park? These guys come together for months without those mental superstructure that characterize us Italians.
They are not afraid to say, with candor, words like communism, socialism and anarchy. Do not fear the debate after work, before putting his head on the pillow. Do not believe the opinion of the recipes, the elder brothers of veterans. And even the big unions, since almost all students or temporary workers.
They are therefore "terrorists" and nothing more? Yes, they have their limitations, are not all particularly brave or ingenious, as indeed it is not British society as a whole, actually quite sclerotic. But it is the intermingling with other experiences, continental and not the strength of these guys.
From Italy to draw inspiration for the theory and that "youth subjectivism 'that from our '68 was immediately thrown to the winds, Egypt and Tunisia copied slogans, icons, even rhetorical references. Honestly I can not take more of that nostalgic trip in Italy organized in memory of the Seventy.
Or those who called for calm for fear that others exaggerate where they have failed. On March 26 a "commando" of teenagers, who until now had never played the "role" of black bloc, has occupied the store Fortnum & Mason, transforming it for a couple of hours in the agora of readings and music without twist a hair on anyone.
Not it was a prank, but a true "expropriation." To dozens of occupants handcuffed I believe it mattered very little if Cameron will remain in place. So I feel to say: do not look for it in Cairo, Tripoli or Tunis, the revolt. Do not project your frustrations and your hopes on lands that we know little, and what little is filtered by the hidden persuaders and their lackeys.
There is already much to do here, in an anthill with thousands of stories that are intertwined, they embraced and filling it, politically and culturally, but also sexually, ethnically, the streets covered with burning plastic and the nights spent at the police station, stories that could keep us busy for years to come, without being bored.
Paul Mossetti, and curious writer, born in Naples in 1983, one of the founders of the activist groups and The Call Through Europe. He lives in London, where he works in a publishing house and a bar.
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