through europe

Imagine you're living in a country not very different from Italy. You can breath the corruption in the air, the great public works cost three times more than anywhere else and are never finished and the winners of the public auctions are decided by a phone call. The press - when not "porniphicated" - is declared by the authorities "a menace for the national security" and the opposition - when it's not the government's accomplice - is only patient and waiting for the electoral wheel to turn in its favor.

Imagineaza-ti ca traiesti intr-o tara asemanatoare cu Italia. Coruptia se transmite prin aer, marile opere publice costa de trei ori mai mult si nu sunt niciodata finalizate iar castigatorii licitatilor publice se decid cu un telefon dat cui trebuie. Presa – cand nu e total “pornificata” – este declarata “un pericol pentru siguranta nationala” iar opozitia – cand nu e complice – e rabdatoare si asteapta, sperand ca roata electorala sa se invarte in favoara ei.

I'll be brief  and almost telegraphic, because I have many things to say and little time.

1. Let's have a look at the landscape at the end of the year 2010. The Obama hope has dissolved, and the European crisis has broken out. A new Logic has been installed at the heart of the European life, since the financial crisis of Greece: Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy and Jean-Claude Trichet resolved that European society has to sacrifice its current levels of life, public school system, its civility, in order to pay the debts accumulated by the financial elite.

Quasi telegrafico. Molte cose da dire poco tempo.

1. Uno sguardo al panorama alla fine del primo decennio. La speranza Obama si dissolve, e scoppia la crisi europea. Una nuova logica si istalla al cuore della vita europea, a partire dalla crisi finanziaria greca: Merkel Sarkozy e Trichet hanno deciso che la società europea deve sacrificare il suo attuale livello di vita, il sistema della scuola pubblica, la sua civiltà, per poter pagare i debiti accumulati dall’elite finanziaria.

Ce qui est en train de se passer à Rome et dans beaucoup d’autres villes italiennes, ce qui s’est passé à Londres jeudi dernier pendant qu’un Parlement de traîtres votait pour la destruction de l’école publique, est le début d’une décennie nouvelle.

Ce sera une décennie de conflits et d’autodéfense de la part de la société, contre une classe dominante violente, corrompue, meurtrière, contre le capitalisme financier qui littéralement affame la société, contre la mafia qui occupe les places du pouvoir pour se partager les ressources produites par le travail.