"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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