#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #SICILIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, #Sicilia Libertaria: Between immigrants and carrion (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 There was no doubt that the Right-Right Government would ride the immigrant

question according to a consolidated carronesque policy useful for hiding social
contradictions with dirty operations of mass distraction marked by the most
sinister racism, in full continuity with the attitudes of the previous
governments. So much so that last 2 November the agreement with Libya was tacitly
renewed, signed at the time by the centre-left, to continue to subsidize the
Libyan jailers and torturers, their concentration camps and the Libyan Coast
Guard with billions of it is not made up of the traffickers themselves, it is at
least an accomplice to them. We were certain that on this front nothing would
change, if anything there would be a cankering of the institutional obstinacy.
That there is no immigration emergencythe official barkers know this very well.
The only emergency is for those who died at sea: 1,400 officially registered this
year, which has not yet ended. The dreaded invasion is denied by the facts. If
Italy is the first European country for landings (90,000 landings in
mid-November), NGO ships have saved only 10,000, all the others have been
recovered by the Italian Coast Guard and a minimal part arrived independently.
But most of the immigrants who arrive have no intention of stopping there, as the
numbers of asylum applications attest: 190,000 in Germany, 120,000 in France,
65,000 in Spain, 53,000 in Italy. Compared to the resident population, Italy is
in 15th place with one asylum seeker for every 1,308 inhabitants; in first place
we find Cyprus with one for every 68 inhabitants,
In Italy, then, despite the propaganda of the regime, 50% of the immigrant
population is European (Romanians and Albanians), while only 22% is of African
origin and equally of Asian origin (mainly Chinese). So much for the invasion.

The government actuallyhe is suffering from a schizophrenic crisis: on the one
hand he needs to identify a scapegoat on whom to unload the anxieties and
discontent of the Italians, on the other, he must satisfy (but without
advertising it) the industrialists of the North who have been claiming a
different policy for some time on migratory flows, due to the need for manpower
(there is also talk of 4 million immigrants), also due to the falling birth rate.
He has received an investiture from Confindustria, and especially in the Po
valley regions he has seen a mass of votes moved from the League to FdI, and he
knows that he cannot fail to please the bosses, despite being pressed by Northern
League competition on the immigrant issue. In this context, the "progressive"
newspapers, owned by the Fiat group (La Stampa and la Repubblica), which,
enlightened by humanitarian impetus,
The migrant question thus finds itself at the center of various interests and
power games, as if all this were not then transferred to the bodies, lives,
aspirations, wounds, humiliations, dreams of millions of people forced to abandon
their lands due to the social, political, war, environmental unlivability caused
by the ravenous policies of the rich countries.
Unable to deny the evidence of a strong need for workforce, the reactionary dog
​​dusts off the old slapstick of "they steal our jobs", or of parasitic migrants
who get rich on basic income. To then sprinkle the Salvinian slogan "the free
ride is over".
It is no news that some migrants are forced to carry out jobs that few Italians
would do under those conditions; particularly in agricultural sectors, where
their exploitation is facilitated by the widespread clandestine position due to
lack of documents, caused by the Italian laws desired by all governments. But
there is a growing number of Italian workers who, out of need and impoverishment,
are engaged in the same activities. However, the majority of immigrants are
employed in activities together with Italian colleagues and comrades, and it
would be time to end it with the distinction, which also eminent exponents of the
left and the voluntary sector fall into, between natives and foreigners: they are
all workers and their situation should rather be approached from a class point of
view,
Class approach means considering solidarity not as a hairy handout but as a
feeling of brotherhood and complicity for the conquest of denied rights, and it
serves to avoid falling into the humanitarian trap so dear to the church, and so
well seen by the employers.
Not that humanitarian problems do not hesitate: from them derives the need to
provide assistance at sea or at land borders, or to engage against the
application of security decrees and the police and racist measures of the
government; but it is the perspective that is different, no longer based on an
"us and them", but on an affirmation of the unity of the exploited beyond borders
and nationalities, against common enemies.
Finally, here in the Deep South we have crossed the paths of clandestine
emigration and then codified in the flows imposed by international capital. Our
countries have depopulated and continue to do so for the same reasons that lead
many inhabitants of other poorer continents to leave. Their landing in our lands
can certainly represent a way to fight the abandonment and degradation of
countries on an egalitarian basis and with common perspectives. All of this
accentuates the extremely topical nature of an internationalist and supportive
vision for the abolition of all borders.

Pippo Gurrieri

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