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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the events of Genoa show us several things. The first, I would say, as regards the European or world leaders, the Euro-globalists who were barricaded in that town, is quite simply that they may govern badly, but they protect themselves well.
The second does not, for all that, tempt us to support the brutal and deliberately violent counter-demonstrations that were organised and that did not create too much indignation among their ranks so long as they were used against the national right-wing parties. When the targets are Flemish, Italian, French, German or other national militants, that is seen as entirely acceptable and there was no shortage of leaders within the French socialist party to encourage and organise the so-called democratic harassment. Until the day when, like the man hoist with his own petard, the socialist leaders find themselves at the receiving end of the stone throwing. Indeed the bloody events of Genoa show that protests against globalisation are not the expression of a moral protest born of the desire for a fairer redistribution of the wealth of the planet. In fact today, like yesterday, the issue is political and ideological. Lucas Casarini, leader of the White Overalls movement, said as much in an interview with
. Negri, imprisoned for armed insurrection against the Italian state and now partially free, expressed the same view in a book. These people are no longer socialist internationalists, proletarian internationalists, but they are still internationalists. The people who demonstrated in Seattle do not represent the voice of the poor throughout the world; they are a political instrument directed against the Western world. In Genoa, they launched their attack from the very heart of the empire they supposedly wanted to destroy; but in reality another equally subversive form of globalisation is dialectically opposed to liberal globalisation. We do not support either one of them; the real reply lies in the defence of national identities."@en1
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