XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , banana  writes   
      
   >Radicals in France have been planning a big confrontation in Paris   
   >tomorrow. [...] The rulers are scared. [...] Who knows...maybe if   
   >momentum builds up, the authorities will look weaker still, and   
   >insurgent popular hope will rise?   
      
   The intelligence shown by the insurgents over the last fortnight makes   
   me optimistic that the insurgency will continue to rise.   
      
   Unsurprisingly, the rulers are now making a big effort to protect   
   important sites in central Paris, e.g. the Eiffel Tower and the Champs   
   Elysées.   
      
   There is a general recognition by the insurgents of a need to spread the   
   struggle a) to central Paris, and b) outside of France...   
      
   Just to mention another building... Generations of radicals have wanted   
   to say bye-bye to the Paris Bourse (stock exchange). I reckon that must   
   be under heavy protection too. Unfortunately it only suffered minor   
   damage in May 1968.   
      
   Will the authorities be able to protect everything they want to protect?   
   Will they hell!!   
      
   If anyone reading this thinks this struggle is primarily to do with   
   ethnicity, they should ponder the fact that these insurgents - if one   
   can talk of a 'tradition' in this context - are following the great   
   insurgent tradition that has reared its head many times among the poor   
   in France over the past 220 years, such as in 1848, 1871, and 1968.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)