Greeted by the mischievous tolling of the bells of the Cathedral of San Giovanni, the Anarchist May Day rally was held again this year in Ragusa. The baton left by Pippo Gurrieri, unable to attend the demonstration for the first time, was taken up by three mature comrades from the Sicilian Anarchist Federation and a promising young Ragusan anarchists. An audience of just over a hundred people and several tourists cheered the comrades. --- The steps, parapets, and terrace of the church were decorated with flags and banners. In the square, a large number of comrades and just over a hundred onlookers and tourists cheered the speakers, highlighting some of the more significant passages with persistent applause.
Natale Musarra began by emphasizing that this year's May 1st is not only anarchic but also anti-fascist: Meloni, with her security decrees and the new directives imposed on police officers and magistrates, is dusting off blatantly unconstitutional laws from the 20-year period to prevent the emergence and growth of a "real" opposition to the government. This opposition is not that of the parliamentary left Brasil, Bento Goncalves/RS, OSL: inept and incompetent Brasil, Bento Goncalves/RS, OSL: but the social opposition represented by grassroots movements fighting for decent work, against wars, against the MUOS project in Niscemi and the militarization of Sicily, against drilling, against the mafia and corruption in the Sicilian Region, against fires, for common goods and civic uses, for public water, for a Free Palestine, in support of the Sumud Flotilla, migrants, environmentalist and ecological struggles, and in defense of the territories from speculation and profiteering. The fascists in power dislike May 1st (during the twenty years of Mussolini's rule, they replaced it with April 21st, the "Christmas of Rome," which they have returned to celebrating this year!) because it has anarchist roots: it was born in commemoration of the eight-hour general strike held in Chicago in 1886, following which five anarchists who had called it were sentenced to death. Under the pretext of incitement, the authorities of the time transformed these comrades of ours from victims of aggression into aggressors, exactly as happened after the fascist massacres of the 1920s, and particularly in Ragusa on April 9, 1921 (the same location where this year's rally was held), and as continues to happen today.
Antonio Rampolla echoed these last considerations in his speech, accusing the neo-fascists governing the country of wanting to rewrite history by attacking those who expressed solidarity with Cospito and the anarchists involved in the struggle. He focused in particular on the preventive arrests of Roman anarchists, guilty, according to the city's police commissioner, of writing on walls "Peace among the oppressed, war against the oppressors." A terrible, inciting phrase, harbinger of dire consequences, taken from a famous song by Pietro Gori (Addio, Lugano bella), which the commissioner evidently did not know. But the repression has hit hard here too, against the No Muos activists, inundated with dozens of expulsion orders; against the ProPal movement, hit with fines amounting to thousands of euros; and against self-managed social centers, primary places of youth gathering, acculturation, and politicization, which have been evicted everywhere. All this while, to stay in Niscemi, people lose their homes in the massive landslide, or develop cancer from radiation, or burn hectares of cork oak forest near the MUOS Brasil, Bento Goncalves/RS, OSL: without the Americans at the base noticing Brasil, Bento Goncalves/RS, OSL: while local authorities and the Gela prosecutor's office conceal their responsibilities; while in Sicily the mafia is resurfacing and wars are raging in the Mediterranean without European governments intervening to stop them.
Renato Franzitta has pilloried the labor decree flaunted by the government on the eve of May 1st, which introduces a concept both new and ancient: the "fair wage," as opposed to the "minimum wage." The "fair" wage is the wage that masters, in their goodness, give to their servants based on what they believe they should be entitled to; It chains them to the logic of the market and production, marking their lifespan (for example, with faster workloads, exhausting and harmful jobs, and more frequent overtime, even if well-paid); it ignores the erosion of purchasing power caused by inflation. This is a worn-out concept because, except for those "guaranteed" by national contracts, it has always fueled job insecurity, youth emigration, the depopulation of the South, and has reduced wages by an average of 8%, more than in any other European country. All this within the context of a political class that has squandered billions from the PNRR, impoverished the already poor to make the rich ever richer, a government subservient to the wishes of the financial masters, the major energy companies, and the military-industrial complex, an economy that pollutes, destroys the soil and the environment, and a foreign policy that winks at the worst warmongers and international criminals.
In conclusion, after a brief speech by comrade Ignazia, focusing on the repression affecting the anarchist youth movement and gender repression, the comrades present sang "Addio, Lugano bella" by Pietro Gori.
One who was there
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