The following article was published in Le Monde. It is translated from French using Altavista's babelfish - that's why it's a bit messy.

Updated saturday December 2 2000

The "GLOBAL ACTION EXPRESS TRAIN" is back. This train, cx27est that that requisition, since 1997 and the European node of Amsterdam, the young radicals who are "Invisible", "Tute bianche" ("all in white") or members of Ya basta. Tuesday, they will be close a thousand to take it, direction Nice, two months hardly after having slipped by on Prague and taken part in the demonstrations in margin of the annual meetings of the IMF and the world Bank

"We are the Italian zapatists!" proclaims Vilma Mazza, one of the spokesmen of Ya basta, which, at forty years, has the appearance of a veteran incontestably. Taste of the formula, inclination for a certain esthetism in the protest, this mobility sx27est has pointed out for a few years by its actions blows of fist and its direction of imagination. In the Czech capital, the Italians popularized a new technique of demonstration, with the help of old tire tubes of truck, the gomoni, connected by ropes, which thus form a gigantic shield of pneumatic protection aiming stopping and at making move back the forces of the Order. In white combination, disposable, "to evoke the precariousness of the people of invisible, those who aren't seen, unemployed, immigrants, without-papers", they about very invested: the plates of television of Media 7, one of the chains of Silvio Berlusconi at the time of debates on employment, the stage performances, will The Opéra of Milan, to claim "the right to culture", the accesses of centers of retention for immigrants or HLM offices. With Nice, they will manifest against Charter of fundamental rights", not because we are against Europe, but on the contrary because we want an alive Europe, which grants rights to all those who live there, with social contents very extremely, and not a Europe which is not a New province of neoliberal Empire".

"Autonomous"? The term is a bit snuffed. "It returns too much to the Seventies in Italy", indicates Mrs. Bazza. Born from the social centers, the political and cultural agitation places which pushed in all the large Italian cities at the end of the Eighties, this mobility presents a "filiation" with the Italian autonomous political current, estimates, for its part, Polika Calzini, journalist with Carta, the agency of alternate press created by Ya basta which publishes a daily newspaper on the Web and a monthly magazine on paper. Radio operator Sherwood, the reference of Ya basta and Invisible in the North-East of Italy was formerly a historical station of Autonomy in Padoue. Certain local groups assert the étiquette "autonomous" like Zanzara ("the Mosquito") in Genoa. Elsewhere, as in Venice, others became quasi-institutions, participant in common initiatives with the municipality.