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"Con Internet Wikileaks ha scardinato il giornalismo" - Intervista con John Pilger

LONDON - "Wikileaks is doing what journalists should do and not doing. Why is there so much envy. " John Pilger, the British 71enne dean of investigative journalism, also from Australia as Julian Assange, famous for his documentaries about the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, was yesterday in the hall of Westminster Magistrates Court together with the writer Tariq Ali, and director Ken Loach. All came to give support to the founder of Wikileaks. For Pilger, who celebrated the news of his release on bail of Assange, Wikileaks' is changing the face of investigative journalism. All journalists should show solidarity with Assange and his staff. Instead there is especially bothersome, since many institutions of journalism can be seen over by a group of guys with a website. "

With the arrest of Julian Assange is opening up again the debate on freedom of information. The United States who do not want the figure of the censors sostengono che Assange non è un giornalista. Lei come giornalista che cosa ne pensa?

Julian Assange sicuramente è un giornalista, come lui stesso mi ha detto. Del resto anche il suo titolo ufficiale è editor-in-chief, o capo redattore di Wikileaks. Poi chi è che decide chi è giornalista o no: il governo Usa? Stando a sentire i portavoce del governo statunitense né io né voi giornalisti de il manifesto verremmo considerati giornalisti, perché abbiamo una «linea politica». Come se i giornalisti mainstream o quelli di destra non avessero una linea politica.

Lei negli ultimi decenni è stato uno dei pionieri del giornalismo investigativo, prima come inviato speciale for the Daily Mirror and later for television. What is the real novelty of investigative journalism on the Internet?

First of all speed. Wikileaks is doing in a few days on how sensational revelations of U.S. diplomacy and the military in the past would have taken months if not years of work. It has introduced an interesting model in which journalists become "facilitators" for the dissemination of information revealed by whistleblowers (literally Whistlers, a figure codified in Anglo-Saxon world). People who work for the state and make the burning secrets because they think it is right that the public learns. With or without internet, there is no journalism without investigating these whistleblowers. And it is important that they too are protected.

Despite the importance of the information published by Wikileaks seems to be little solidarity from his fellow journalists.

The fact is that Wikileaks is embarrassing traditional journalists in recent years have been accustomed to the stenographers of power. It's a real shock to many journalistic institutions like the New York Times or the Washington Post, but also for many journalists of the Guardian, the illusion that their role was irreplaceable. To print this in envy and resentment Assange winds. But instead of getting angry should understand what is going to be an invitation to return to reveal what the government would hide from citizens.

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Risuona «Anarchy in the Uk»

"Anarchy in the UK" title, the free newspapers that cling to morning commuters on the London Underground. The eyes bulging at the sight of pictures of Charles and Camilla, terrified by the students that surround and affect the real-gleaming Rolls Royce's Regent Street. Someone laughs. Others shake their heads. "Fucking students!" - Cursed quietly a gentleman in his fifties, wrapped in a gray coat. The day after the scenes views of urban riots and after the vote Thursday before the House of Commons in favor of increasing tuition fees to 9,000 pounds a year, London wakes up in disbelief. With the streets littered with placards, sticks and broken glass. And with people trying to understand why so much anger in the land of phlegm and understatement.

For politicians who sit in parliament that was seen Thursday on the streets of the capital of the United Kingdom is simply "unacceptable," "bestial," "criminal." "We need to ensure that students who behave in this disgraceful way to feel the full force of the law of this country" - attacks threatening the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has congratulated the police for showing "restraint." As students it is just "dreamers" as stated by the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg detested. And violent dreamers, too.

"There were many people who clearly wanted to commit acts of violence and destroy property" - said Cameron, who is to face a wave of social conflict that apparently neither he nor his party colleagues had put into full account . A manforte give the prime minister, opening the hunt for "vandals" who had the zeal to jeopardize the safety of the heirs to the throne is the Labour Party, that the voice of Ed Balls, Shadow Minister for Internal attacks "violent minority" who "hijacked a largely peaceful protest." "Anarchists profession and violent agitators "as defined them as the Conservative MP David Davis, who also voted against the increase in fees.

The controversy focuses on institutional security breaches of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles that he collected a hit in the ribs through the car window open by mistake ended just as the protesters threw objects. The bodyguards who were on the verge of drawing their guns against the 40 protesters who had surrounded Thursday night against the real car in the shopping streets. A finish for the umpteenth time in the eye of the storm is the head of Scotland Yard, Paul Stephenson: accused again of having underestimated the protests.

Stephenson who has promised "thorough investigation" the incident must also deal with criticism for the police violence. Forty demonstrators are due to go to hospital for treatment to injuries sustained during the protest. Among these Alfie Meadows, a twenty-year old boy who is studying philosophy at Middlesex University, underwent emergency surgery to head an intervention lasted for three hours to stop a brain hemorrhage as a result of beatings. Dozens of students have fractures and bruises after clashes with security forces who did not hesitate to resort to charges of police on horseback to dismiss the crowd so that something not seen since May 31, 1990, the day of great protest against the poll tax sought by the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher. But to really get out

pests by these weeks of political controversy and riots are mostly the Liberal Democrats that the polls be reduced to a meager 8%. Yesterday Clegg has had to deal with a wave of resignations of local party members who have not shared the turncoats on tuition fees. And many predict that the leader libdem could lose the leadership, if young voters rejected in a May bond referendum for the transition to a more proportional electoral system built by Clegg, to make it pay to libdem traitors.

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"Ci avete rubato tutto, ieri i soldi e oggi la speranza"

"What the hell happened to the Harry Potter generation?" asks England for good surprise by the explosion of a teen angst not seen for decades. "He who sows the wind picks up storm," he says Jonas, a 17 year old boy studying in a college in Hackney in east London. "What do you expect from guys who are condemned to a life without a future?". A generation disillusioned and angry, politicized ideological but little seems to be in street violence the only way to express their dissent against the policies proposed by the tears and blood of the Tory government Libdem Cameron and Clegg.

Boys to paraphrase a famous Arab proverb is more like the days of crisis in which they grew, rather che ai propri genitori che ai loro tempi di proteste ne hanno fatte poche, per lo più pacifiche, e su problemi che non li toccavano direttamente come la fame nel terzo mondo o l’apartheid in Sudafrica. E che non si sentono rappresentati dal sindacato studentesco percepito come distante e parte del sistema, ma neppure dai gruppuscoli e partitini della sinistra antagonista che pure cercano di approfittare dell’ondata di mobilitazione per reclutare militanti.

Il vecchio motto punk «no compromise» è diventato non a caso uno degli slogan più popolari tra gli studenti che scendono in piazza con tanti cartelli ma poche bandiere. Con la testa incappucciata ed i volti coperti, ed al suono di musica drum’n’base come eravamo used to seeing in Germany, France or Italy. Certainly not in the reign of Elizabeth II. And this antagonism is reflected in the statements of the leaders of the movement at all intimidated by the attack of the press against the students that the "Sun" bubble "Yobs", as the companions of violence of Alex in "Clockwork Orange".

For Clare Solomon, president of the union of university students in London, "who speaks of violence is a hypocrite. They are the ones who support the war in Afghanistan. The violent are those who use guns. Not who breaks a shop window. " Along the same lines Mark Bergfeld, charismatic leader of the coalition Education Activist Network, which claims that the violence was «il risultato delle condizioni orribili in cui sono stati tenuti gli studenti», finiti cordonati per ore dagli agenti nella zona del Parlamento.

Aaron Porter, presidente del sindacato degli studenti universitari (Nus) che sin dall’occupazione di Millbank dello scorso novembre aveva criticato la «minoranza violenta», si ritrova un pastore senza gregge. La vigilia pacifica di protesta, con tanto di candele organizzata a Embankment sulle sponde del Tamigi, è stata un flop. Solo 7.000 persone contro le oltre 30.000 che hanno partecipato alla manifestazione di fronte al Parlamento in cui si sono visti scontri di massa tra studenti e polizia. Ed ora il fronte radicale degli studenti si sta organizzando per creare un nuovo sindacato students to oppose the union accused of moderation and only Nus indecision.

radicalism that is causing a split between moderates and antagonists in the UK student movement is indicative of a widespread resentment not only among students but also among high school teenagers who gave manforte protests. At the base is the perception of a future that is likely to be without work as that of 17% of British youth, as to grow in the coming months due to the hiring freeze in much of the civil service and because of the close on 'economy created by the cuts. It is even worse for graduates: 25% are unemployed in a country where up to three years ago, companies were buying up newly graduated students.

If at the time of the crisis continue to study does not seem to increase the chances of finding a job, students, the university continues to be a port where you can try to fulfill their dreams even if it will result in a job. "Why should I do to force engineering or physics, as the government wants?" Camilla asked a student of 16 who wants to study anthropology at university. These aspirations are frustrated that feed the insults against the "Tory scum", and what you can only call a class hatred against the bankers as a complaint that Thomas, a student di sociologia, «prima ci hanno rubato i soldi ed adesso ci vogliono rubare anche la speranza».

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«Vergogna». Un boato di rabbia esplode tra le migliaia di manifestanti assiepati di fronte al Big Ben, quando alle 5 e 42 arriva la notizia che nessuno voleva sentire. L’aumento delle rette universitarie fino a 9.000 sterline è passato con 323 «ayes» and 302 «noes». La ribellione dentro i liberaldemocratici c’è stata. In 21 hanno mantenuto la promessa elettorale di votare contro, tra cui due sottosegretari che si dimessi dagli incarichi di governo. E ad essi si sono uniti 8 deputati conservatori. Ma non è bastato a fermare un provvedimento che come sostiene il presidente the union of university studeti Aaron Porter is "unjust, wrong and unnecessary."
"A difficult day" - Vince Cable has accepted the vice-minister of liberal economics, that the increase in fees will allow not only to "maintain the high quality of our universities," but also "to help students with low income. " Entirely different view of the tens of thousands of students throughout the day clashed with police and demonstrators in front of parliament turned into a bunker as happened last week in Rome for the vote on the reform Gelmini . Clashes that continued until late evening with dozens of students were arrested and at least 100 wounded.
"Tory scum, we are coming" - shouted in unison, the procession of 20,000 people left at noon from home University of London. Above the heads camped thousands of posters with all kinds of insults directed against the traitor Nick Clegg, the Liberal deputy prime minister before the election that he had vowed to oppose the increase in fees. "Give us Clegg," - shouted at the police asseragliati behind the barricades, the students arrived at about one and a half in Parliament Square. The clashes
explode around two hundred students when they begin to push against the thousands of agents schierati di fronte al parlamento, usando come arieti, pezzi del recinto messi a protezione del prato di Parliament Square, in vista del matrimonio reale tra il principe William e Kate Middleton. «Uno, due, tre, via!» – urlano i manifestanti, e partono a ripetizione gli spintoni contro le linee della polizia che si difende dietro una transenna attraverso cui gli studenti cercano inutilmente di aprirsi un varco.
Da dietro arrivano rinforzi, spinte ed urla di incoraggiamento. Ma anche caschi verdi, bastoni, scudi di cartone a forma di libro (come quelli usati in Italia), che vengono passati da mano a mano mentre gli studenti si alternano negli scontri. Dalle prime linee vengono portati indietroi feriti, trascinati a arms by his friends, with the blood that drips from the nose, cheeks and head. "Next to be affected will be you" - exasperated shouting students against the police, in the coming years will be literally decimated by heavy budget cuts to safety.
"This way you do not pass." Then suddenly at about three in the crowd suddenly change strategy and moves towards Victoria station to "go for a visit to the headquarters of the Liberal," Lucas explains how a boy of eighteen with the cap on the gray head, and a black scarf to hide his face. The police charging the crowd responds with a squad of 20 agents in horse, which stands on end afraid on the hooves to the bursting of firecrackers, flares and smoke bombs. And about five manages to bring the situation under control, surrounding students with cordons of officers deployed in mass on the four sides of the square.
Pending the outcome of the verdict of the House of Commons dominated by pessimism among students. "Clegg tried to pass himself off as a student, and many - including myself - believed him" - a student confesses disconsolate Laura Lambeth in south London, while awaiting the results of the vote. "They're traitors pigs" - adds bluntly Elliot a high school student in Richmond. "To blame of these people, now in serious danger of not being able to do the university. "
When finally comes the bad news the stones start flying from all sides. The agents are retreating under the pressure of angry students, and soon are forced to resort to containment cages to prevent the protesters make my way to the parliament. But they fail to ensure that a hundred people to storm the palace of the Secretary of the Treasury. Go down the windows, and a dozen able to break into the building after having broken through a doorway, and graffiti on the wall appear to glorify the revolution and the Liberal Democrats warned: "I will do it pay." Around eight the polizia è costretta a lasciare che la maggioranza delle persone defluisca dalla piazza.
Nella notte continuano gli scontri con gli studenti che prendono d’assalto le strade dello shopping. Preso di mira un negozio della catena Topshop. E nel traffico vengono sorpresi pure Carlo d’Inghilterra, la cui auto viene presa a mattonate da 50 manifestanti. Decine di falò cominciano ad illuminare la notte nel centro di Londra e anche il grande albero di natale in Trafalgar Square va a fuoco, con i pompieri che subito si adoperano per fermare le fiamme. Ma spegnere la rabbia di questa generazione tradita sarà molto più difficile.

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"Questa generazione chiede un'altra politica" - Intervista con John McDonnell (sinistra Labour)

«Il vento è cambiato e pure il nuovo leader del Labour Ed Miliband sarà costretto a fare i conti con il forte sentimento di opposizione ai tagli». Ad esserne convinto è John McDonnell, leader della corrente di sinistra all'interno del Labour Socialist Campaign Group e candidato sconfitto nella corsa alla guida del partito nel 2007 e nel 2010.

Per McDonnell portavoce in parlamento di un coordinamento di otto sindacati tra cui quello dei pompieri, dei giornalisti, degli impiegati della pubblica amministrazione e dei lavoratori della metropolitana londinese, «ora c'è soprattutto bisogno di unità tra le diverse lotte per evitare che Cameron ci colpisca e ci sconfigga uno ad uno». In questo contesto, «le proteste studentesche possono diventare la scintilla per la creazione di una coalizione resistance against the policy of cuts in the governing coalition of Tory and Libdem.

So many students involved in protests so radical it was something not seen in many years. What is happening to young people in Britain?

We were told that this was a non-ideological generation, which was not interested in politics. Instead it is a generation that woke up and she is teaching to my generation that it's time to get back on their feet and start fighting. We must be careful not to overstate what is happening in recent weeks. But certainly it is a palpable change: a change that gives hope. While

students protesting metro workers have gone on strike. Before them, the firemen, and the next could be the Royal Mail's postmen are threatened by privatization. At the moment fights seem disconnected ..

The beginning of the new year will bring a new wave of strikes, and this week the unions met to discuss how to coordinate these struggles. It is important to build links between workers and students, for their part that we are already trying, as they did Monday go to support the pickets of workers underground.

Ed Miliband said he was tempted to sympathize with the students during the protests in a week ago, but unfortunately at that time was busy with other things .. It is also a signal that Labour is waking up?

The Labour Party has a problem faced with this situation, because it was the Labour Party itself primarily to the introduction of tuition fees (which did not exist until 1999 ed.) The party was heavily involved in the neo-liberal policies. But at the same time gaps are opening up within the party, and is developing a general awareness of past mistakes during the New Labour.

We will see Labour get back on the streets, as it does not happen for decades?

definitely need to go back to the streets and back to support the pickets. Honestly I do not expect that Ed Miliband will turn into a militant overnight. More realistically I would expect that a growing number of Labour members will participate in these campaigns and leadership will be forced to respond, not to be left behind. If you want to return to the government, we need to reconnect with what's happening in the community.

If there is a positive thing for Labour in all this history, the collapse of Libdem, which took away the party many votes in recent elections, especially among the young. .

Libdem I have long tried to get to the left of the Labour Party during the years Government had slipped to the right. But as demonstrated by this story of their being "left" was pure electoral opportunism. With respect to the U-turn campaign promises to oppose the increase in tuition fees have lost all credibility and seriously threaten to implode. I think that half will feed into Tory, while the other half will go to Labour.

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«Don't be kettled»

snowflakes fall on the shopping streets of central London from Oxford Street to Bond Street, whitening the Christmas lights with images of Disney movies, and slows down jackets and ladies Pellicciotti Chelsea intent on making gifts. A scene from the romance of consumerism that is broken by invading groups of students, shouting loudly "no cuts to the university, no ifs and buts", which were disrupted traffic Jaguar and Mercedes taxi blacks and red double-decker bus.

"Move, do not get kettled" (come on, do not get caught), was the slogan that ran on the websites of the student movement on the eve of the third day of protest against plans to reform the Cameron government, supported by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats that wants to triple the maximum limit for tuition fees, bringing to 9,000 pounds. To avoid being creased by "bobbies", and be forced for hours in the cold as happened last Wednesday, yesterday, British students have created a «blocchi metropolitani», con proteste a macchia di leopardo nel centro della capitale, cogliendo di sorpresa la polizia.

Il tempo gelido e una bufera di neve che, a partire dalla mattinata, ha creato nuovamente disguidi ai trasporti cittadini, reduci da un grande sciopero lunedì scorso, ha limitato il numero di partecipanti a poche migliaia. Ma questo non è bastato a raffreddare l'entusiasmo degli studenti che tra le grida «Tory feccia» e «Libdem traditori», festeggiavano i segni di cedimento all'interno del governo, con i liberaldemocratici intenzionati ad astenersi nella votazione in parlamento. Piccoli scontri con la polizia si sono verificati verso le tre di pomeriggio, quando i diversi «serpentoni» that had paralyzed the traffic gathered in Trafalgar Square. A dozen arrests.

If there were so many students among the demonstrators of twenty universities in the capital, as happened last week, the majority was composed of high school students: boys aged 14 to 17 years who fear they can not afford university if the fees were raised. "I want to study psychology" - Alexandra says a fourteen year old student, wrapped a wool scarf against the wind chill. "But after that my parents have already paid for the studies of my two older brothers, I do not know if they can pay my tuition fees. It is an injustice to the younger. "

A lot of worry is the proposed elimination Ema (Education Maintenance Allowance), a check for high school students. "When they give me £ 30 a week" - said Robin a boy 16 years of Southend. "With what I pay for my bus to school and little else. In the evening I have to work as a waiter. If I could take that money also would mean that I should work in the afternoon. Study really hard for me to become. " In addition to protests in the capital, the day was marked by processions and sit-in dozens of campuses in the United Kingdom. At Cambridge, Edindurgo, Nottingham and Newcastle students have occupied classrooms and academies, mentre a Oxford in centinaia hanno invaso la sede dell'assemblea provinciale. Scontri con la polizia si sono registrati a Brighton, Bristol e Leeds.

Le proteste studentesche si intensificheranno nelle prossime settimane, quando il piano di riforma arriverà in parlamento, con i Liberal-democratici in grave imbarazzo, dopo aver rinnegato la promessa elettorale di opporsi all'aumento delle rette e di fronte a sondaggi che li danno in crollo al 9%. Ieri, parlando alle telecamere della Bbc, Vince Cable, vice-ministro LibDem all'economia, con delega all'università, ha dichiarato che potrebbe astenersi assieme ai colleghi di partito quando il provvedimento verrà votato in parlamento. L'astensione dei LibDem permetterebbe comunque l'approvazione the reform of the university. And certainly not enough to save face for a party that university students, who had voted overwhelmingly in May, accused of treason colored blue conservative.