«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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