XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <22odf.16567$Ua6.7976@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Stephen Glynn   
    writes   
      
   >MikeinCamden@aol.com wrote:   
   >> What does 'radicals' mean?   
      
   >Probably farmers, hauliers or air-traffic-controllers.   
      
   Peasants, Poujadist petty bourgeois, and 'labour aristocrats' have   
   practically zero involvement in the current movement.   
      
   >They're the   
   >chaps in France who normally set fires (in the case of the first two) or   
   >cause widespread disruption.   Possibly radical students being retro and   
   >remembering what their parents did in '68.   
      
   If you think May 1968 mainly involved students, you should find out   
   something about it...   
      
   --   
   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)