(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Italy - Class Struggles in logistics: a first look (fr, pt)

By way of introduction ---- This mini-folder, which does not claim to be exhaustive, is 
composed of three recently translated on social struggles boxes over Italy in the most 
combative sector currently, the logistics texts. ---- We added two interviews of actors 
performed in May 2013 and January 2014 and a little article from January 2013 on the fight 
then conducted in the logistics division of Ikea in Piacenza. ---- These texts seem 
interesting by their informative aspect of the reality of these struggles, how it happens 
and what it says in this sector, an essential ingredient of the current development and 
actually existing as regards the sale of goods on an industrial scale in the context of 
globalization; purchasing centers, large specialized or general surfaces, mail order sales 
like Amazon and other ... Transport, storage hubs ... And in the case of Italy, this 
reveal in particular the direct links with what is the economic base the historical left 
(PCI and post-PCI), cooperatives as key players in the management of precarious work, and 
in particular a work force composed mainly of migrants. The role played by cooperatives, 
one of the most important pillars on which is built the Italian left in his great 
historical compromise with the capital during the post-war also explains why the official 
union confederations either large this item openly against workers in this sector and 
particularly advanced in defense of employers they are organically related, specifically 
the CGIL.

But also interesting on another level of reading, by the way to see and analyze conflicts, 
to make a direct question of political antagonism in terms of balance of power, in terms 
of collective ability as texts that crystallization and emergence of subjectivity 
struggle, collective (or subjectivity) which, by breaking even, reconfigure the terms and 
issues of the conflict itself and produced a new political situation where the crucial 
victories torn by strife, even the smallest in the formation of subjectivities of "class 
composition" as saying heterodox Marxists of the Italian workers' autonomy. Interview on 
Action No-TAV recently placed on the site of the OCL ( No TAV Struggle: a history of 
collective subjectivation ) said things in a perspective close enough and we have always 
considered fundamental: when a significant portion a given between fighting and movement 
and pose, in acts, involvement and words, issues more broadly that the only claim initial 
population.

This is part of what we mean by "doing politics today" approach, referred, issues.

April 2014