Mercredi, une manifestation de protestation des \u00e9tudiants anglais contre les mesures gouvernementales (\u00e9tudes plus ch\u00e8res, restrictions, etc.) a tourn\u00e9 en une puissante d\u00e9monstration de force (50.000 personnes alors qu’on en attendait quelques milliers), agr\u00e9ment\u00e9e de violence contre le quartier-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du parti conservateur. The Independent<\/em> en rendait compte le 11 novembre 2010<\/a>, comme de la fin du consensus ayant pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 \u00e0 la formation du nouveau gouvernement et \u00e0 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de restrictions consid\u00e9rables des d\u00e9penses publiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tZoe Pilger, du m\u00eame quotidien, observait, le m\u00eame 11 novembre 2010<\/a>, combien la rage des manifestants \u00e9tait palpable, combien le radicalisme et la col\u00e8re sont dans l’air<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab[T]this was the biggest march by students in a generation.<\/em> [] What brought everyone out on to the streets? The general consensus was anger. The rights afforded by education are not simply the reserve of the elite, a claim implied by some commentators<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOne of the speakers at the rally was Angela Maddock, an art lecturer from Swansea University. She rejected the idea that the arts should be subordinated to so-called useful subjects, and instead argued for a defence of art for art’s sake. The Government’s decision to ringfence science and technology while cutting the entire teaching budget for the arts and humanities, points to an alarming ethos.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe biggest cheer came when speakers made the connection between the eye-watering price of proposed tuition fees and the banking scandal. Radicalism is in the air. The rage is palpable.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tEux-m\u00eames surpris par le succ\u00e8s de leur manifestation, les \u00e9tudiants britanniques semblent pr\u00e9parer une journ\u00e9e d’action nationale pour le 24 novembre prochain. Le Guardian<\/em> l’annonce ce 11 novembre 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abEmboldened by the numbers who took to the streets of London to campaign against the proposal to charge up to \u00a39,000 a year in fees, students are planning a wave of direct-action protests across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbProtesters occupied a building at the University of Manchester today, demanding access to accounts to see how government spending cuts may affect students and staff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbGrassroots groups were drawing up plans for a national day of action in two weeks’ time. Michael Chessum, the co-founder of the National Campaign Against the Cuts, predicted there would be widespread disruption as students staged sit-ins, occupations or walkouts at universities and colleges on 24 November.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWe went off script: the script that said a few thousand people would turn up, complain a bit, and go home; and the cuts would go through pretty much as planned, said Chessum, 21, a sabbatical officer at University College London. That has changed. Now students really feel they can stop this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbA statement published by student leaders praised the storming of the building housing Conservative party headquarters by a fringe group of protesters on Wednesday. We reject any attempt to characterise the Millbank protest as small, extremist’ or unrepresentative of our movement. We celebrate the fact that thousands of students were willing to send a message to the Tories that we will fight to win. Occupations are a long established tradition in the student movement that should be defended.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tD’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, divers commentateurs britanniques ont observ\u00e9 avec un sentiment de frustration les mouvements de protestation en France, durant le mois d’octobre, comme Tariq Ali le 19 octobre 2010<\/a> dans le Guardian<\/em>. Il est possible que cette frustration concernant l’apathie britannique par contraste avec l’expression de la col\u00e8re fran\u00e7aise se transforme en une certaine satisfaction de voir cette apathie \u00e9ventuellement transform\u00e9e elle-m\u00eame en une col\u00e8re revendicatrice effective. Les conditions faites aux Britanniques par les mesures gouvernementales sont \u00e9videmment \u00e9pouvantables et vont toujours dans le m\u00eame sens du syst\u00e8me qui a conduit \u00e0 la catastrophe, qui, aujourd’hui, justifie ces mesures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n