[Marxism] 'Greek Syndrome' is catching as youth take to streets

[Dbachmozart at aol.com]

First it was Athens. Now the  Continent's disillusioned youth is taking to 
the streets across Europe. John  Lichfield reports 
Saturday, 20 December 2008 
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Europe exists, it appears. If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of  
tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Yesterday,  
masked youths threw two firebombs at the French Institute in Athens. Windows  
were smashed but the building was not seriously damaged. Then youths  
spray-painted two slogans on the building. One said, "Spark in Athens. Fire in  Paris. 
Insurrection is coming". The other read, "France, Greece, uprising  
everywhere".  
It was a calculated and violent attempt to link disparate youth protest  
movements. Links between protests in Greece and France – and, to a lesser  degree, 
unrest in Sweden – may seem tenuous, even non-existent. But social and  
political ailments and their symptoms transmit as rapidly as influenza in the  
television, internet and text-message age.  
With Europe, and the world, pitching headlong into a deep recession, the  
"Greek Syndrome", as one French official calls it, was already being monitored  
with great care across the European Union. The attempt to politicise and link  
the disputes across EU frontiers may prove to be a random act of  
self-dramatisation by an isolated group on the Greek far left. But it does draw  attention 
to the similarities – and many differences – between the simultaneous  
outbreaks of unrest in three EU countries.  
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