Italy. Assange. Georgia Prison strike.

It has been a mixed twenty four hours for world capitalism. In Italy their utterly corrupt representative and Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi managed to scrape together enough votes to get a confidence vote passed. This avoided an immediate election which would have been taking place against a background of economic and currency crisis. This would have deepened the crisis of the Euro and the European economy as a whole. For the moment they are wiping their brow.

But while he won his vote of confidence vote he did so very narrowly, but more important outside on the streets thousands of youth fought the cops as they saw their future going further down the drain. Education is under attack as the Italian capitalists want to cut spending in this area. There is that saying. Youth are not part of the problem. They are part of the solution. Capitalism no longer believes this. It is alienating the youth and building a huge opposition force against itself. They will pay a dear price.

Then there is Assange the main person in wikileaks. They locked him up last week and refused to grant him bail. But the outcry has been widespread, the opposition against the corporations which went along with this has been swift and threatening. All around the world people have gone after their web sites and downloaded and saved the wikileaks files. And rather than showing signs of going away the support for wikileaks, Assange and Manning has been growing. After the extreme censorship here in the US where they have been keeping it out of the mass media, it is now forcing its way through and more and more people know what is going on.

Even though he was charged with nothing the court in Britain refused him bail. And also even though he was charged with nothing the Swedish government wants to extradite him. The pathetic argument of the Swedish government which wants to extradite Assange is ridiculous. . It is a set up. It has charged him with nothing. But it wants the British government to extradite him to them anyway. . The Swedish government whines: "The UK government should trust that Sweden is making the request in good faith." Yes. A good one that.

The British government's position in refusing him bail has been so indefensible that it has had to reverse itself. Now it has granted him bail as long as he can come up with the huge amount of $316,000. This is an outrageous amount but the fact they had to give him bail is a defeat for them. But Assange is not clear by a long shot. His lawyer says they are still trying to stall so the US can build a case against Assange. In the meantime Manning the soldier who is accused of being the original source of the material wikileaks has been distributing lies in prison. When we are defending wikileaks and opposing Assange's imprisonment we must always include Manning in our campaigns.

Keep up the support for the Georgia prisoners and keep up the support and campaign to defend wikileaks and for the release of Assange and Manning and the dropping of all charges against Manning.