WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #171: The point (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 After 9 months of right-wing government - which are not few, and 50 are waiting

for us - we believe the time has come to take stock: the requests to "let them
work" have had their day and the first conclusions can be drawn . Especially
since the prospect of a mandate that lasts for the entire legislature is not
improbable, not so much and only because the opposition is divided, but because
it does not seem to want to understand what is the project at a tactical and
strategic level that guides the Government and once again once the "left" treats
the right with arrogance, underestimating it: and loses. It is for this reason
that we believe it is appropriate to try to propose a reading, even in
perspective, of what the right in government does and plans to do, distinguishing
between the prime minister and her allies.

Economic policy and foreign policy

Meloni has entrusted one role to herself and her entourage and another to the party:
the Government and the control room have the task of maintaining the country's
international position in the economic and foreign policy fields, therefore they
adopt Dragon-like choices and methods , aware that the economic limits of
operation have been drawn by the strict dependence and anchorage to community
policies, that the budget balance must be maintained by controlling expenditure
and that Atlantic and NATO loyalty must be absolute. In economics and in general
foreign policy the blanket is short and staying on track has guaranteed the
entente cordialwith Brussels, as we have seen. This constraint is respected in
the expectation of overcoming it after the European elections, in which Meloni
plans to create the conditions for a new alliance in the management of the
European Community which will see the Conservatives directed by her play a
management role in the Commission.
While waiting for better times in Europe, the government's foreign policy moves
by designing the so-called Mattei plan for Africa, which is in reality
inconsistent and lacking in content, by forging relationships and alliances that
make it possible to put at least a brake on the migratory flow, establishing
relations with politically close partners such as England's conservative Rishi
Sunak, while Meloni plays the dog with Biden, holding him and letting him hold
his hand.
This strategy allows the absolute incompetence of the government to be swept
under the carpet, which nevertheless emerges with extreme clarity and
self-evident evidence in the bankruptcy management of the PNRR, in relation to
which the delays and design and management shortcomings are becoming increasingly
evident. The request for renegotiation of the provisions intends to hide at all
costs the inability to plan and implement, or if one prefers to ground, the
projects prepared.
There are shortcomings of the previous government which had made its own choices
in terms of management and selection of political and managerial personnel who
should have managed what was proposed, and all this to implement a redistribution
of tasks functional to the division of power. which is one of the main objectives
of the government. Proof of this is what happened with the appointments to the
management of public bodies, large groups, as well as the management of
infrastructures and the coverage of the most delicate and strategic institutional
roles which takes place constantly and with which the foundations are laid for a
permanent occupation of the State and its vital ganglia. What is happening in Rai
is the emblematic and clear demonstration of this and allows us to understand
when the operation is pervasive and capable of producing effects long-term and to
pour onto the second front, the one managed by the party, which concerns the
fascistisation of society and the start of a cultural-political process which
must lead to change, in the intentions of the government majority, the social
sentiment on strategic issues such as the family, the values of solidarity,
health, eugenics, as well as topics such as euthanasia, surrogacy, relations
between the sexes, social relations as a whole, passing off all this as a
response to demographic decline, a response to ethnic substitution and all the
other junk that characterizes the vision that the right has of the world and of
the future.

The role of the party

The project may appear unrealistic, but the right is convinced of it and supports
it with strength and tools capable of influencing and establishing themselves in
the collective imagination. In this strategy the control of the means of mass
communication is essential and their orientation inevitably shifts with the
general cultural climate that is created. For its part, the left does nothing but
repeat that the right is devoid of culture, that it does not have the necessary
intellectuals, able to carry out the task required of them, and in doing so it
underestimates the role that so many replicating parrots can play of repeating
concepts, proposals and languages, end up, in the general tiredness, by imposing
them, to make them become prevalent, moments of social communication and tools
for the formation of consensus. If you react like this, the right has already won,
This cultural climate benefits in a broad sense from a political point of view,
the government majority which can continue to operate in an environment favorable
to it, in which the political proposals it makes are the coherent response to the
needs that seem to emerge from society. This explains the policies of the small
steps in the restoration, constituted by the proposals of the party, meaning by
this to refer to that numerous and ever-changing plethora of parliamentarians,
who churn out proposals such as those relating to the management of language,
communication, the use of foreign terms , provisions regarding food, choices and
habits regarding the management of leisure time and social activities. Every
little proposal constitutes a reinterpretation in an updated key of fashions and
customs of the twenty years and today they go back to being current, to seem like
a new and modern attitude of response to today's problems. The goal, unrealistic
as it may seem, is aimed at giving the country a new identity, consistent with
the vision of the world that the right has, which exists, which is real and is
trying to enter consciences. The basic objective is to give life to a version of
the ethical state, which will certainly be low profile, but which will tell us
what is good, what is appropriate, what needs to be done.
All this work is anything but an end in itself and has a precise objective: to
prepare institutional reform which, even if it has not yet assumed a precise
technical configuration, aims at strengthening the executive and can
indifferently take the form of presidentialism , semi-presidentialism or
premiership, it doesn't matter that much.
The important thing is to change the Constitution significantly so that it can be
said that this is no longer the Republic born of the Resistance, and that
therefore a new constitutional pact has been signed, of which the heirs of
fascism are founding and constitutive subjects. Only in this way, in the vision
of the fascist right, can reconciliation be achieved and come to terms with
history. Anyone who hasn't understood the project is just an idiot and hasn't
understood who they're dealing with, so they're doomed to lose.
The activity shown by the prime minister on the occasion of the flood is in part
a due act and in part will function as an objective element of mass distraction
from the government's political objectives which remain unchanged, suitably
masked behind the need for national solidarity, unless the controversy over the
appointment of the Commissioner for reconstruction and the feared defenestration
of the Emilia-Romagna Governor, do not reveal the real behavior of the
Government, making its partisanship clear.

The opposition in the Government

This is not the project of the entire right, as the constant tensions and
pinpricks of the other two components demonstrate. The League, in particular, is
moved by shop interests - as demonstrated by the position on the appointment of
the Commissioner for reconstruction in Emilia-Romagna - and moves disorganized to
achieve a single objective: differentiated autonomy, clashing in this with the
party of a majority which, however, knows that it needs alliance cohesion to
achieve its objective on institutional reform. For these reasons, the only
dangers for the Government can come from within. It is a fact that a reform of
this kind, in addition to producing profound imbalances between the different
parts of the country, costs money, and therefore appears incompatible with the
current economic situation. Furthermore, the project of differentiated autonomy
is no longer economically current, given the changed axes of development and the
loss of momentum of the autonomy and of the German economy which acted as a pole
of attraction for this project. If the majority party is able to exploit this
contradiction, it will be able to keep its ally under control and to postpone or
in any case water down the project of differentiated autonomy so much as to make
it ineffective, with further damage to the institutions because, even assuming
that it comes to an autonomistic reform, it will be ineffective and contradictory
in its effects.
In all of this Forza Italia floats, awaiting the funeral of its leader, whom we
hope will be close according to a natural path, and which we will not regret,
getting lost in the streams of a thousand small measures and interventions of
absolute strategic ineffectiveness, ready to exchange from time to time its own
support with small concessions and support activities for special interests. In
this struggle in the gasps that precede death, this political formation will have
to deal with the remains of what was the third chicken, increasingly reduced to a
magmatic and muddy field of unspeakable political subjects who operate in order
to cultivate their particular hedonism and selfishness, or more simply to
continue doing business in the shadow of the institutions: some of them are
content to live on profits deriving from business, two objectives can also find a
synthesis in the same individual.

And the left?

The scattered weaknesses of the left move like ghosts across the country. The 5
Stars try to take root in society. seizing slices of power, asking in some way to
participate in the banquet, (as they did for the RAI nominations) in order to
perpetrate themselves, tempted to carry out a policy centered on left-wing
slogans to gather consensus and support their own ambitions, but lacking both
initiative and political agenda. In this way they will end up floating in the
country's politics as tradesmen, managers of a consensus that is running out.
The Pd of the new secretary moves, staggering and uncertain, both in the
parliamentary halls and in the country. After an initial momentum, the new
secretariat was unable to become a collective, and focused on the figure-image of
Schlein. His action on the litigation level has blurred, proof of this is that I
have not found the courage and political intelligence to say that some excellent
abandonment of the party, such as that of Fioroni, Borghi, Cottarelli and
Caterina Chinnici, constituted a healthy effect of what was happening and that
the "company" finally got rid of dry branches that are actually non-functional to
what the party would like to be. Thus, instead of jumping at the opportunity and
announcing that the house was being cleaned, Schlein is silent, immobilized,
under the weight and in the absence of a political strategy,
Where are the initiatives in defense of civil rights, the tough opposition to the
government's migration policy, the defense of permanent employment and the fight
against precariousness: where is the request for wage increases and the one in
favor contract renewals, which initiative has been taken to support these
positions; where the struggles for women's rights. The truth is that the
political action of the Democratic Party appears dull, it even suffers the weight
of what happened in Emilia Romagna, without having the strength to fully say that
even if we do not share the consequences of climate change and nature is blamed
for geological disaster of the country today we must not limit ourselves to
solidarity and unity of purpose with the government,
The problem is that this change passes through the admission of historical faults
of the party: with regard to immigration, it must be said that the
Turco-Napolitano is crap - which only precedes and inspires the Bossi-Fini - that
that law owes the Centers for identification and expulsion that the government is
strengthening today, because that is the origin of a criminal migration policy in
the country. It should be said, and not only in the pre-congress meetings, that
the Jobs Act must be opposed with concrete proposals for the modification, if not
the repeal of those notorious norms; it must be said that the entente cordial
with the bosses is over, and that the party is choosing sides which it is unable
to make.
We should admit the existence of hesitations and delays in policies to combat
climate change and in favor of a reorganization and social management of the soil.
In a word, we should deny the past, say that the compromise policy is a closed
chapter, while instead we leave the party in the ford, between winking support
for entrepreneurship and finance and a definitive and incompatible side with the
nature of the party, in favor of the working and peasant class and of exploited
and jobless men and women. The same goes for youth policy, for concrete actions
against job insecurity, for a different relationship with trade union
organisations, in support of the fight for a minimum wage established by law, in
favor of relaunching the
workplace conflict.

The last election check

The ineffectiveness of the opposition that the left should be able to develop
towards the government is confirmed today May 29 by the results of the last round
of administrative elections which saw the electorate's favor for the government
parties reconfirmed. Even where broad coalitions have formed on the left, they
have appeared occasional and uncertain and have not convinced voters. The truth
is that there is no real and articulated programme, no credible political proposal.
If it is certainly true that the 5 stars do not shine in the administrative
elections, the renewed PD (?) does not even remotely reveal anything new and the
growth of the progressive and innovative proposal proposed by Schlein appears
non-existent and therefore ineffective, as demonstrated by the results of the
vote in the Tuscan cities and in Ancona: more and more voters are staying at home!

And U.S

These are the tactics and strategies of political parties. But class composition
is also in crisis and is certainly not experiencing a happy season. Bent over by
the precarious economic situation as regards the structures of employment
relationships, affected by the growth of inflation and the worsening of living
and working conditions, the crisis due to the repetition of devastating climatic
events, the result of growing neglect of the territory, prostrated by the
persistence of the conflict in Ukraine, while the parties of the left seem not to
notice the war or even worse to consider it an inevitable and structural event
with which one can not only live with, but support and support it, the workers
and the lower classes undergo the initiative of the employers and parties,
In this situation, once again, the only thing left is to take the initiative
directly, aware that mobilization has its limits and that defeat must be taken
into account, but that even if momentary, it represents only a stage on the long
journey that leads to defense full of their rights and therefore stubbornly
insist on mobilizing and fighting for their rights and interests.

The editorial staff

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/05/29/il-punto/
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