Fear of loss forces people onto the street

The hundreds of thousands of people who protested in around 80 countries on Saturday against the power of the financial sector are unlike other demonstrators, writes the conservative daily Lidové noviny: "No, these protesters don't want to gain something. They represent a generation that knows it could lose everything. These are people who are not particularly ideological, but they are conscious of their status and suspect that things can only go downhill. ... Essentially, however, there isn't much they can change: the West is growing poorer and countries like China are growing richer. In the past three years the number of people in the US who didn't have enough money for food rose from 9 to 19 percent. In China it fell from 16 to 6 percent."

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