Greece, France, Italy: Youth Burnt
of Ilvo Diamonds
(last part of the article published on December 9, 2008 Republic go )
. ... The revolt of Athens, in some ways, would also refer to the mobilizations that pass through Italy a few weeks. The differences, in this case, however, are even more evident. Why the youth protests in Italy is born of a violent episode and did not again become violent (except in some very specific cases). Why has political aims and targets exquisitely. The measures the government on school and university. However, of the mobilizations are the points of contact equally obvious. In Italy as in Greece, the protagonists are students, the university theaters. In Greece and Italy in the student population had long been in turmoil for the same reasons. The open opposition against the reduction of resources and investment on the school - and especially the organization of research and universities - public.
..... Why invest addressed young people, both students and the fringe of the upper classes and groups excluded. The targets are, in any case, the institutions of government, the educational system and law enforcement, the political system and especially parties and government men. The common denominator of these social explosions are young, hidden and guarded by a company the old and in decline, from a political system im-sighted, inefficient and often corrupt. Crushed in a present without a future. Which are reduced by the rights of citizenship. Forced to flexibility without goals. Which means insecurity.
Violence, in this case (the author refers to the events taking place in Greece - ed) , becomes a way to declare and shout its existence.
them unseen.
Needless to ignore them, act as if there were. There are. Students, temporary workers, a good family or marginal and immigrants, or overtly politicized impolitic and anti-politics. There. And if you pretend not to see light, they burn. Fires that burn down the city.
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