Italy: Crowds without end Submitted by on 29 March, 2002 - 3:45
In its first edition after the demonstrations, Liberazione, paper of the Italian socialist party Rifondazione, described the events. I don t know if I will find the words to tell you about this great day in Rome, the day of the CGIL , which saw gather in the capital a crowd without end, the likes of which no-one can remember. Already trying to count the numbers seems, involuntarily, like rhetoric; perhaps not for those of you who, like me, were mixed in among the thousands and thousands of women, men and children in a sea which grew everywhere and with every glance. Was there ever such a sensation of being part of a people, under endless fluttering banners, to give such emotion?
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THE optimism of John Milne for our future (Letters, July 2), is commendable. However, as Milan Kundera wrote, “optimism is the opium of the people”. Mr Milne’s quote from Gordon Brown, “We’ve got to give people a message of hope. Tell them about the dream” is a good example. Perhaps part of the problem for the Labour Party in Scotland is that their previous hegemony perished on the rock that too many people, for a variety of reasons, stopped believing them any more – that the “dream” was just that, a dream. As I said in my earlier letter (June 30), a carefully constructed peace deal in Northern Ireland is unravelling, and the Labour First Minister in Wales holds that the UK “is over”. Optimism is fine but must be based on facts.