#klein said the left lost steam after 9/11 but idk

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I'm reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein - it's a great book so far, but a thing left me a bit puzzled. She mentions Italy's current political situation (shitty, literal neofascists in government) and she compares it to the giant, massively supported left-wing protest at the Genoa G8 summit in 2001 – but she doesn't mention how that protest went: it was repressed with extreme police brutality.

A 23 year old was killed by the police, then the night after the protests the police raided a school where students, activists and journalists were staying and attacked them indiscriminately, people ended up in a coma, many were seriously injured, then detained without motives and tortured - and after that the media blamed the victims and the police tried to cover up everything.

It's a big open wound for the italian left, the event had a giant influence and it's considered a watershed moment. And it's so strange to have the G8 protests mentioned without a word about the literal human rights violations that took place there.