WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, Il Cantiere #19: Is everyone crazy about Giorgia? - Libertarian Alternative/FdCA (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Almost a year of government, and against the predictions of most, the
strength of this government is resisting, and has indeed gained, if not
consensus, then credibility at an international level. ---- An ironclad
Atlanticist loyalty overshadows the various government gaffes, the
economic improvisation with which the PNRR has been managed so far, but,
above all, the construction and strengthening of a racist and misogynist
European ultra-right , so far limited to the former Visegrad area
(countries, we must not forget, on the front line in the war against
Russia with an important role within the NATO-led European rearmament),
which risks finding, in this Europe in shattered, full legitimacy at
European level.
Attributing the category of classic fascism to this government and its
prime minister may seem simplistic and incorrect on a historiographical
level (especially when those who cry anti-fascism are those political
subjects who have pursued similar policies of neoliberalism and
privatization, as well as alignment with NATO dictates led by the USA),
but the ideological continuity flaunted and practiced on every useful
occasion is evident. Also because the authoritarian drift of this
country has undergone a worrying acceleration.
The concentration of political power in the hands of the executive, the
downsizing of the judicial power, the occupation, beyond the spoils
system, of the ganglia of administrative power, the desertification in
RAI and the control of the media, the ease in use of decrees to resolve
small daily disputes with personalistic rules, even the management of
emergencies such as the flood in Emilia Romagna draw the government of a
single man, sorry of a single woman, who proves not at all willing to
waste time with a normal democratic dialectics, in which there are no
interlocutors capable of asserting themselves.
And so far all government operations, almost a year after its
inauguration, have proven to be in favor of a part of the social bloc
that supports Giorgia Meloni, who is not only supported through the
fiscal mechanism but, by easing all the authorization procedures, favors
the use of capital and investments in the smell of mafia. This is
nothing new, except for the hardness and determination with which the
application of this neoliberal perspective, which has long been in force
throughout Europe, is pursued.
The trend has already been seen from the first decree, the one on Rave,
which once converted into law also saw the inclusion of a reduction in
the crimes against the public administration (bribery and embezzlement)
which are deleted from the list of those which precluded the granting of
penitentiary benefits in the absence of collaboration with justice. Then
came the Cutro decree, which, in the name of one of the most serious
massacres in the Mediterranean (of which the political origin and the
order not to intervene are now certain), further played downwards on
migration policy: with the cry of " let's punish the smugglers", and
while we continue to feed the state mafias of countries like Libya and
Tunisia that play the role of sheriffs of the sea, yet another crackdown
on the human rights of migrants, with the reduction of the conditions
for the recognition of protection special and integration tools, from
language courses to legal protection, the elimination of the
convertibility of residence permits for disasters or health reasons into
work permits and the strengthening of tools linked to forced
repatriation, among the most inhumane practices. Another important
thrust is that on civil rights, with the war on rainbow families and the
evident bad faith of indicating procreation for others as a universal
crime, but in fact prosecutable only for homosexual couples, while the
majority of users of this practice are classically hetero couples , in
the absence of evidence this rule will never be applied.
For years, the red-brown vulgate has tried to contrast civil rights with
social rights: those who have argued for years that defending civil
rights meant giving in to collective rights immediately had to change
their minds: this government doesn't choose, it restricts spaces of
freedom wherever it happens. And he has no problem waving the weapon of
injunction for strikes called even in compliance with the already tight
regulatory framework.
And in the meantime the war on the poor, rather than on poverty,
continues incessantly: the minimum wage, a topic of discussion on talk
shows but not in parliament, is Pilatesquely sent back to the CNEL, and
cash is raised by replacing the citizen's income with the promise of an
inclusion allowance that restricts both the beneficiaries and what is
paid. In the face of the now manifest social crisis, the multiplication
of bonuses, buffer measures such as the temporary cut in the tax wedge,
continuing to avoid seriously addressing the enormous problem of
compression of the purchasing power of workers, counting on the
delegitimization of the union. Also because the social attack is on an
international scale, and a response must be constructed on at least a
European scale, which cannot continue to be ritual. And if the war
remains against the backdrop of denied information (think of Italy's
role in the conflict that has just opened in Niger) and has done and
continues to do its part in the functional reorganization of
international economic scenarios and agreements , redesigning energy
scenarios first and foremost, the environmental crisis now heavily
affects our lives, even in the face of the evident failure of
international climate agreements. The season of mobilization that is
being prepared, that must be prepared, must emerge from the dynamics of
subordination that have characterized us so far, and cannot be either
national or sectoral. It must attempt to connect all fronts of action,
from the trade union one which is taking its first steps at European
level, to that for social justice, for income and the right to live, to
that for climate justice and the free movement of people, to fighting a
creeping fascism that rewrites history and tries to graduate our rights
according to our origin and our choices of life and expression, if women
and queer, to opposing a war that drops missiles far from us but it also
has very serious consequences on our present.
A mobilization that must use the proposed international dimension,
starting from October 13th, to broaden the participation base of the
unionized sectors, to make a social opposition gain visibility that goes
beyond the acronyms, that unites the demands linked to the income and
working hours, social, climate and civil rights.
It is necessary to decline solidarity, build direct action, promote
mutualism, broaden forms of political practicability, without creating
hierarchies between the struggles, but recognizing them as part of a
collective framework that draws a possible way out of the abyss that
this government, and the next ones, like the previous ones , they are
preparing us.
To do this, it is not enough to mobilize the union structures or cadres,
but it is necessary to do one's part from below, without delegations, to
organize ourselves in the territories, starting from the workplaces,
where we are, but also from the squares in front of the police stations
or prefectures, to work to the development of possible spaces for
struggle, and at a horizontal level on the federability and
recomposition of struggles. Using and making all the requests, calls and
mobilizations called our own, to create and strengthen a true opposition
movement, promote its development both quantitatively, always trying to
widen the spaces for participation and make them grow into mass
movements, as well as qualitatively. , analysis, historical memory,
ability and practice.
We will give our contribution to this, as libertarian militants of
anarchist communism.

Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA Il Cantiere #19 settembre 2023
ilcantiere@autistici.org http://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
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