Word: revolting
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...they approached the barricaded bridge, those three old men plowed their tractor straight into the police blockade, shoving the buses aside and opening the way for thousands to break through as the security men melted away. Armed with the awesome revelation of its own strength, a grass-roots revolt had begun, and from then on nothing could stop...
...second attempt on Wednesday to crack the miners brought the revolt to ignition point when the three old men bulldozed aside the barricade. A few police swung their batons at the flood of protesters, but they had no hope--and no stomach to do much more. However loyal the upper levels of police might have remained, the rank and file had turned. We police, muttered one, are more democratic than you think. When Kostunica arrived that night to cheers of "President!" the police looked on as he declared, "Those who step on the people's will and try to steal...
...plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...
...knew New Labour--not to mention Britain--would be brought to its knees by the shared frustration of workingmen? Grassroots revolt may have a long history there, but it wasn't supposed to happen in Tony Blair's Cool Britannia...
...Blair is on notice that the revolt is only suspended, not over. He is expected to come up with some tax relief when he presents his spending plan in November. It will take two more weeks for the country to return to normal. Lest Blair forget the ferocity of the issue, he has only to look across the Channel to see how easily the protests could resume. It doesn't really matter that most of the current price rise is OPEC's doing or that Europe's economy is generally thriving. Drivers there are mad as hell, and they just...