But England... the country in which class contradictions have reached their most acute and shameless form—England seems to be the rock which breaks the revolutionary waves, the country where the new society is stifled before it is born.
Is anyone else struck by the stark opposition between the arch reactionary Unite the Kingdom demonstration in England and the radical revolutionary Block Everything manifestation in France?
The orchestrators of the former are avowedly political (Turning Point UK, for example) whilst the latter's organisers are twenty high school students who proclaim themselves apolitical, neither left nor right.