The strike on November 28th is weighing heavily on the parliamentary
debate surrounding the 2025 budget law. On the one hand, there arethreats to limit the right to strike; on the other, there are attempts
to demonstrate how this measure will not impact public services or the
lowest incomes, defying ridicule; finally, there are efforts to find
additional resources to provide some palliative to prevent the explosion
of social anger.
The government is committed to a strategy of supporting profits and
rents; this is the common ground of monetary, financial, fiscal, and
industrial policy. The cornerstone of this strategy is the containment
of nominal wages, in order to achieve a reduction in real wages, both
through inflation and by cutting public services that constitute
indirect wages. This budget law does not deviate from this strategy.
We can therefore say that not only does the government legitimize the
right to property over the means of production and exchange and protect
it with the violence of its organized repression, but it also directly
worsens the conditions of the exploited classes, while simultaneously
guaranteeing profits and rents. This government prominence, however,
ends up transforming every struggle to improve living and working
conditions into a political struggle against the government's strategy.
Likewise, the criminalization of forms of peaceful struggle such as
blockades, adopted throughout Italy during the October 3rd strike and
often continued, risks transforming every peaceful struggle into an
insurrectionary act. Furthermore, the government lacks the means to
control a widespread mobilization; this is demonstrated by the fact that
during the October 3rd demonstrations, the police and Carabinieri were
not seen, and, where there were no leaders eager for advancement or
particularly delicate situations, the day passed without incident.
The stubbornness with which the government, not only this one but also
its predecessors, defends the interests of the privileged classes is
thus reduced to providing revolutionaries with arguments for their
action and simultaneously demonstrating the possibility of revolution,
along with the futility of repression. That growing masses are realizing
this is demonstrated by the general strikes of recent months and their
success. The fact that even the main yellow union, the CGIL, has called
two general strikes in two months testifies not so much to the leftist
orientation of the current general secretary, but rather to pressure
from below for more decisive action.
The next general strike will certainly have very different numbers from
that of October 3rd, both due to the division within the union front-not
only is the CGIL not striking, but neither is SICobas-and the exclusion
of a large portion of public sector workers in the regions involved in
the elections (Campania, Puglia, and Veneto).
November 28th remains an important opportunity to raise the issues of
class unity and autonomy, along with the question of what to produce-an
issue raised both by the struggle against the production and
transportation of weapons and by experiences like the former GKN factory
collective. Participating in every struggle will lay the groundwork for
a general strike of expropriation.
Tiziano Antonelli
https://umanitanova.org/moltiplicare-le-lotte-contro-il-governo-28-novembre-ogni-tappa-e-importante/
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