It is time to sweep away, the hunt, to go out, fight, to express, not to take a step back. Because these are the news, bringing the media, the wind and the coming of the Old Continent, news that show French society mobilized against hunger and poverty measures that is to impose the small Sarkozy, the "president rich "who wants to make the poor pay for their abuses, ostentation, mistakes, horrors, whims and dementia.
The news brought a cry of despair that runs throughout France and Europe these days, shouting exposed as union strikes and student demonstrations. France burns, burns Spain, England burns, burns Germany, Ireland burns, burns Greece, the U.S. burns, burns Rio, Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago. Burn this world further adjustments of financial crises, wars, climate change, wild capitalism, constant dehumanization. And within this fire burning, students make their assault, illuminated Paris as soon as today, as always, with those claiming ownership control lights never go out. Full of words students powder, instant messages and may revolutionize making revolutions (from unintentionally turning on "the barracks" if you propose), filled with slogans of "tomorrow", words that explode on deaf ears, expressions that are multiplied in every corner, in every classroom in every school in every city of the French Revolution. Students stand with their bare hands, including fire, cement pavers, paving the story again and again to strike the face of entrenched power in our bones and democracies that make us so much harm. Stones and cries that come to wake up, to change once and that Great Custom which immobilizes us, find the Great Truth that frees us definitely, that's a good time and always stop exploiting man by man.
The massive participation of students in the demonstrations against pension reform is once again confirming the adage legacy of May '68, "according to which" public universities and colleges are pure nitroglycerin for any government. " High schools and universities paralyzed by shots, latches and strikes were records last week. According to the National Union of Students of France (UNEF), 29 universities were blocked, there were 300,000 young people in the streets and 500 secondary schools were disrupted, a figure that is unprecedented. Is that a cry of youth, caring and spontaneous floats on the sky of Paris. Laughter and singing. At the heart of the crowd that runs the Boulevard Arago breathes an atmosphere of peace hectic, instant brotherhood, generational charisma. There is struggle and commitment to these voices calling in unison "retirement at age 60" in an almost unprecedented coalition of students and railroad workers, public and private employees, teachers and high school students, administrative staff and stevedores port, retired and unemployed.
These young nobody taught them to do what they are doing. But do not want to leave to use as always, like a turkey bridgeheads or wedding, or as raw material "reserve" for future operations.
These young people are standing and fighting are not alone in this struggle, accompanied million, because the struggle is the same (and it concerns us all.) They are a great multitude that no longer accepts advantageously adjusted to enter a world that is given to call modern, "civilized", materialistic, marginal, are an immense crowd that does not accept that the world recovers with paternal reconciliation hypocritical face prodigal sons who are always, always return, always obedient, always following the orders establishing the system. Is that regardless of retirement, there are numerous reasons that would understand the revolt of youth. In addition, the amazing thing is that in a country erupting insurrectionary tradition such as France, the youth, living a precarious situation, and often described as a problem rather than a solution, not a revolution has taken before. The participation of youth in this movement is the bane of the President because, if I could get some political advantage for its ability to face a powerful social protest classic, has everything to lose to see the youth on the street.
The flags of the CGT and the Socialist Party balloons clog the skyline. Paris raised a form of social action that the dark digital analysts said dead: massive, consistent, determined and organized according to a scheme and a different record to other protests that have been pursued in recent years. But does not respond to the dream of socialism with a museum, but a new style to oppose government measures. The Anglo-Saxon press described the demonstrations that erupted in France in the first quarter and continued to this day as an archaeological curiosity. "They thought that the virtual economy there were no more workers and weathered hands, or students in poverty, and collective responsibility in defending rights, "says Arnauld, a sophomore chemistry. "We are the specialists who did not take into account statistics," says Michel, another student of the same material. "Here is the analog reality," he says mischievously. Both are absolutely right. France always surprises us. Jean Michel emerge from a group of young people making fun of Nicolas Sarkozy slogans vivacious. "We want our parents to die working, and we do not want to dry in the sun looking for home and work," says the 19 years. In around students, mostly graduates, shouting: "Young people in the pale, old in misery." Applause and knowing glances. In a photo from a French newspaper can be a girl carrying a banner, probably written by her, saying: "Dad, Mom I'll get to retirement at age 60, because that girl is fighting for" change " reality.
Again, caused by the delirium of Sarkozy, a pure source of life flows through the streets like a torrent that threatens to drag the system. On the city rises like an immense love something furious disagreement over the half, the tower control of the technocrats, the cold arrogance of historical plans of the dialectics sclerotic so much damage we have caused. The problem is, and will be the default schemes, its very existence, here and in many other countries, how they manifest themselves irrepressible, more than enough proof of its validity and truth in our lives cohesive destructive. Just ask young people dignity, and called for in the only way you can ask at this point, no partial demands, without doubts or fears, ask for it as it should lead to a struggle ahead essential. They do a complete surrender of his person, with the elementary gesture and unquestioned go outside and scream against crushing machinery devitalized and anachronistic order. Students are making love to the only world they love and that loves his rebellion is the main arm, the encounter at the top of the vital impulses. Youth dance, the working class rejoices. The dream of convergence between workers and students was reflected in a couple of weeks in this France who traveled back in time and-perhaps-a French May morning to change everything.
"He came back May 68 '? Many say that these steps soaked streets of Paris there is no ideology, nor complaints metaphorical, nor orders impossible, but a concentrated opposition to a reform of the retirements, which treats society of injustice, driven by Executive for the most part, governs for the privileged. And I say a timely request for a radical change there is always a small step if the crowd is mobilized, it takes so little to the fire that burns content compilers individual and cooled tanks from exploding ideas, freedoms, claims. They say this place is a youth movement practice discipline, and that this is fully modern, and not "prehistoric", say "Here, kids are not encouraging or sponsoring any revolution. They just want justice, equity, and that take into account, "said Roselyne, a retired French post that went with her daughter to the mobilization, as if the revolution had not been gestated and carried forward by the legitimate claim of justice, equity, peace.
is a fact that this is far from the 60's where ideologies were on the surface and present in all our actions. The clashes between viewpoints and ways of life were extreme. It is true that this is a direct son of, for example, the influence of neoliberalism that has moved (even colonized) thought at least the last three generations, but in our souls still breeds the idea of \u200b\u200brevolution. Martine, a beautiful girl of 24 years old student of international law, he says, angrily: "Young people have been slaughtered, we do not want this society where there is only room for those recommended, the privileged, the thieves, the children of the rich. We want justice, equality, opportunities for advancement for all. "
discourages youth to an executive that ignores and a president who treat young people as egotistical are many, the retirement reform, immigration policy, the scandal L'Oreal, squarely hitting the Labour Minister , by carrying forward the reform of pensions, unemployment, the tax shield driven by government and by which the very rich recover much money, the shortage of wealthy neighborhood in the evening, the absence of environmental policy, the constant police checks, the lack of support and, above all, a political "objective" youth-oriented and a general feeling that the capitalist system, as it is run, only benefits a very narrow minority, make noise inside the body and encourages youth to protest rising.
"They took us for fools irresponsible, for little girls in kindergarten incapable of understanding," Audrey said with some anger, a bachelor of 17 who walks with a sticker that says "Je lutte of classes" (a pun meaning "do the class struggle"). Dominique Dupont, member of the CGT union of dock workers, young people observed that slip under the flags of the dock with melancholy admiration. "I was filled with tenderness, so young, so fragile, so vulnerable to fury of this filthy world, and so convinced of what they do, why they're here."
Some days later, at the University of Jussieu, students staged a demonstration before the holidays. Michel, Aurelie, Jean Pierre, Stephane, walked all chanting "Sarko, you're fucked, young people are in the street. " They had a poster created by a protester in the town of Nantes, which read: "Sarko, check your Rolex, when the revolution has come."
France discovered in a blink of an eye the relevance of his militant youth and some new faces. The Viktor Colombani, 16, leader of the UNIL, National Union of Bachelors. A certain boy, who speaks of "intergenerational solidarity" and the impossibility of accepting "to break the law to the future." Despite the privileged position of France, young people live poorly. Massive unemployment, difficulty finding housing titanic, a State speech in which youth and their problems tend to be occasional guests. Analysts acknowledge that young people have functioned as a variable of adjustment "(Louis Chauvel, author of Destiny of the generations).
Active kids know unemployment rates around 24 percent. Poverty unthinkable situations the corners to a central country. "So we have come to the unions," said Lucie, a young newly admitted to the University. "We are tired of cynicism, arrogance of government, standing injustice, to see how up will violate the law and put us down prisoners for any trifle." So many young people on the street came to highlight the fragility of the French social model.
Unions and students agreed on one point: not the France of the privileges reserved to the cost of reforms supported by the majority more exposed. That "anger" was crystallized in a sort of revolt gentle, well-organized through the collective consciousness. The strikes are not penalized for users because the union made a pact to go about the protests and other guarantee a minimum service. The same was observed in the six demonstrations and strikes staged from September. Each time there were between two and three and a half million people, twice a week.
René Clément in 1966 led to film the novel "Paris Burning? written two years earlier by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, on which these rebuilding those moments before the liberation of Paris during the Second World War, in which the German General Von Choltitz, governor of the French capital, he refused to comply Adolf Hitler's order to destroy and burn the city before it fell to the Allies.
Two years after the film premiered in Paris burned, but not burned, was a very different situation. Erupted on May '68. Whether or not this other "French May", remember that in May that labor movements, student art cultural and paved the way for the revolution, attacking the capitalist order. In '68 the students said: "You can not go back to sleep peacefully once he opened his eyes" in this October 2010 I wonder if there are millions in Europe and the world are opening their eyes after a long and are becoming aware of the reality in which we operate.
Outraged by the feeling of being ruled by "the president of the rich", driven by the certainty that "those who pay are always the most fragile," the French did it again honor a tradition of more than two centuries four months ago took to the streets, en masse, to protest, cut highways; stopped trains and airports, took fuel tanks and refineries, left to gather up the trash and put at risk the country's economic activity by jumping to an indefinite series of strikes, for the moment, no signs of ending.
The attack on the struggles of workers who are organized, the oppression of youth censorship all you want to transgress the system, the oppressive use of mass media ... shows that even "society is a flower carnivorous "living and hungry, and that" the bourgeoisie has no more pleasure than to degrade all "and that must end. Perhaps these marches achieve detonate ideas that ended at the French May closing rapidly, perhaps these marches end up twisting a story that definitely leads to hell. Let's wait and see what happens, I am sure is that the Senate vote for Sarkozy is the chronicle of a death foretold to his desire to be reelected in 2012 and that this law has ignited a fire that may end up consuming all not only in France but in the rest of Europe. Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Italy are not much better than France or political, or economic, or socially. To want to recognize it or not, the world burns.
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