#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, UCADI #164: Gagging (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Opening the television, seeing those images, scrolling through a newspaper,

reading the news, listening to the comments, the gagging inevitably comes in the
face of the race to get on the winner's chariot. A recent survey shows that 2.2%
of the electorate has already done so, in real numbers more than a million
suckers, so the support for the neo-fascist party would now be 28.4%. It will be
said that it is the novelty effect, it is a "natural" reaction to every
government, but the fact remains that the dramas of these days say a lot about
future scenarios. ---- A metaphor is useful to understand: we can figuratively
represent the Government as made up of three chickens: one actually is more like
a Christmas turkey, which well represents the power conquered by the majority
party; the other two chickens are destined for Lega and Forza Italia respectively.
The winning coalition is marching together for now, also because there are
sub-government posts to be shared and no one gets up from the table before
binging. In waiting
the big maneuvers have begun: the prime minister has two equal "allies"
electoral consistency, but with a different parliamentary representation: the
League having had more candidates than Forza Italia is oversized and has many
more elected representatives. You take advantage of this to set up an autonomous
policy within the government, you constitute the "crisis cabinet" in a government
to which you belong: in practice, a government within the government that has its
own set of priorities and its own program. Its goal is to recover consensus with
respect to the allies within those who voted for the right to stop the march of
FdI and in fact the poll gives it an increase (+ 1.2).
The premier's party aims to eat Forza Italia (- 1.4%) on the strength of the fact
that for biological reasons the rider without a horse is destined for a better
life and without his money the shack does not hold up: the premier offers a home
to orphans common with the effect of rebalancing the internal relations between
nostalgics of the twenty years and the wing at least a bit liberal (so to
speak!). The old man from Arcore reacted to this maneuver by showing what the
"blackmail" denounced by the premier consisted of and he did so by letting
written sentences and words from the sen escape filter and reach the press about
the character and "qualities" of the opposing goddaughter and above all by
dusting off affectionately dear Putin. A message sent, collected and received, he
put himself good, good and opened negotiations on the sub-government posts, in
defense of his interests.
To taste him from digestion, the so-called "third pole" is offered, which is
proposed as a spare tire for the majority in the event of his defections from the
majority.

The claim of the third pole

The self-styled "third pole", a phrase that serves to enhance a patrol of
transformist, inconsistent, fools, but ready to turn into a rescue platoon of the
neo-fascist government in the event of maneuvers or temporary defections of Forza
Italia, fights hard to sit down at the table and tear the third chicken from
Forza Italia's hands. Basically, to Berlusconi's party thighs, Calenda and Renzi
show that they prefer a chicken leg each to bite into, and they don't miss an
opportunity to point it out. The prospect of being able to sit at the table earns
him + 0.4% in the polls.
The habit of many to sell themselves for a plate of lentils is hard to die!

The left cowardly and imbecile

The political scene is completely absorbed by the right which demonstrates not
only that it has conquered power but that it knows how to manage it so much that
it embodies the only possible opposition of Forza Italia and this is because the
party that came out second in number of votes from the elections, the PD , from
19% is in free fall and would have stood for now at 17% with a deadweight loss of
two percentage points. And - on the other hand - a party without identity,
divided into a thousand currents that compete for the management of a company in
liquidation, managed by a management where the best has the nuisance and shines
for imbecility, has a former secretary at the helm, in a catatonic state, which
he repeats like a mantra "we will make a tough opposition", perhaps meaning that
he once had it hard, which nobody cares about.

Now he announces the Congress for the spring, without thinking of going there
with programmatic theses, without drafting at least an analysis of the phase,
uncritical and passionate atlantist, anti-worker, anti-proletarian, enemy of the
poor, warmonger, without ideas of his own to the point of joining the November 5
to two demonstrations, the one for peace called in Milan by Calenda and Renzi,
pro Ukraine and actually warmonger and that of the same day in Rome, organized by
civil society (with the participation of the 5 stars),  to ask for peace
negotiations between the belligerents, while the governors of Puglia and Campania
organized together with the mayor Valenzi their demonstration in Naples for peace
on October 28 in which 25 thousand (mainly students) lost part, launching another
for November 19th.


Meanwhile, for the young PD the congress in March is too far away. They do not
feel represented by Letta, Serracchiani and Molinazzo, and it is not surprising!
They want a European Social Democratic party and alliances, if needed with
M5stelle and third pole. Their path will be much longer and more uncertain than
they think!!! All this while what is now the fan of the ZtL sees the electorate
undermined by the two aforementioned chicken leg eaters who stand out for their
unscrupulousness and transformation.
It is to be hoped (and there are all the premises) that the victory of the right
will finally (!) Give us the cancellation of the Cattocomunists and their squalid
heirs from the Italian political scene, an essential condition for the rebirth of
a reformist left in the country. Thus ends in squalor a self-styled left-wing
transformist political formation that has married the most unbridled
neoliberalism by depriving the Italian people of any defense and helping to bury
the fruits of the struggle of the anti-fascist Resistance for which many of its
militants in good faith have hoped and given their support. life.
Once again the polls tell us that the M5S, with a growth of 1.1%, would now have
17.3% of the votes. This is the result of the fact that in the current panorama
the party, under the leadership of Conte, despite its many ambiguities, presents
itself as a possible barrier to the spread of the excessive power of the
neo-fascist government, with greater credibility of the Green-Left alliance that
not by chance it drops to 3.4% (- 0.1%). For its own political survival this
party will try to articulate its positions, making its own slogans such as,
defense of citizenship income, wage increases, minimum wage, preparing to fight
for an effective health policy especially in the face of a possible rekindling.
of the pandemic, in addition to engaging in the defense of civil rights, from
abortion, women's rights and rights
gender policies.
It is therefore to this end that the center-right parties intend to build an
indictment with the establishment of a commission to investigate the pandemic and
the policies of the Conte government that seeks to discredit its actions.

And the left?

A prairie opens up in front of the class opposition in which to build an
alternative, but the road is fraught with unknowns and dangers. It too must equip
itself with an analysis of the phase, understand in which direction the markets
are moving, the various international players, the economy in relation to
development and innovation, how to cope with the progressive deterioration of the
climate and the environment to set up a credible and effective strategy against
inequality and social discrimination. This international strategy must then be
articulated in the country by building a front of struggle in defense of the
immediate and future needs of the lower classes and classes, building alliances,
identifying objectives, organizing struggle initiatives in the streets, squares
and workplaces with force. , characterized by cohesion, solidarity, taking care
to promote the broadest front of struggle (France be an example). Care must be
taken that street demonstrations, like any other form of struggle, are organized
by taking into account a provocative and aggressive attitude of the leaders of
the police, as the facts of the University of Rome demonstrate.
The construction of a serious, conscious and effective opposition must be
characterized by concrete proposals on the many problems of the country from
those of work to wages, from the right to housing, to health care, pensions and
education, as well as problems immediate energy costs and the weight of inflation
reached 12%, without neglecting the battle for peace that must be placed at the
center of political initiatives, remembering that the failure to respond to these
problems led to the election of this government. Yesterday's lack of opposition
can and should be the daily business of today.
Basically a long-term work, a crossing of the desert, which can take place on
condition of immediately starting to roll up one's sleeves, in the awareness that
the alternative is disaster and the indefinite perpetuation of the exploitation
of man by man, and on the woman.

Enrico Paganini

http://www.ucadi.org/2022/10/31/conati-di-vomito/
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