Rizzo calls everyone on October 30 in Piazza San Giovanni
The Committee against the Draghi government calls a demonstration in Rome in Piazza San Giovanni for the afternoon of October 30 on the occasion of the G20 and invites everyone to oppose the national and international policies of this government.
We talk about it with the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Hon. Marco Rizzo.
So, here we go. Soon you will be in the square once again. Let’s see the themes of the event. Let’s start with the NO to economic and social policy. No to relocations, to insecurity. And on this I think we are divided on how to counter them but not on admitting whether they are a plague or not. But on the green pass? What do you tell me?
In the meantime, allow me to observe that not everyone is against insecurity and relocations. In the meantime, it is not enough to be against it, but also to indicate how to get out of it. They are not cataclysms that cannot be opposed, but very predictable results of the reforms that the center-right and center-left have carried out without any appreciable difference, with the acquiescence of the concerted union. There is talk of taxing multinationals. But we are still at ridiculous percentages of turnover (3% with the webtax or even 1.5% with the new Italy-USA agreement). Instead, attacks on the living conditions of workers are increasing. Alitalia (and induced like call centers) are being dismantled thanks to halt legislation made by these governments. The multinationals that have taken the money from the state run away at the earliest opportunity (such as the case of the GKN and hundreds of others). Energy bills are skyrocketing. But profits also skyrocket. The six largest banks in the US have profit increases ranging from 24% of JP Morgan to 60% of Goldman Sachs. All this in times of covid. Where do these profits come from if not from the exploitation of workers around the world?
How much green pass, we have said it clearly. It is an act of the government that does not serve as a health measure to protect citizens. There would be many other things to do on transport, public health, schools and jobs. In the structures that really matter, you don’t rely on the green pass, but stringent swabs are made to all those who enter. Nor does it serve to increase the quota of vaccinated people. So what is it for? It serves to divide the workers, to make them turn against each other and activate social control procedures that we still have to see where they will end up. And in any case it serves to pass the discussion that vaccines and above all these vaccines (US which cost ten times more than others) are theunique solution; not the most important, the only one. Then we move on to the destruction of public health perpetrated in recent decades by the right and left. We pass over the indecent situation of commuter transport, not of the Red Arrow, but of trains and metro and buses that bring workers to work and young people to school every day. It is a huge means of mass distraction.
Let’s go to your PERs. Work, health and education who disagrees? Peace also seems a foregone conclusion. Instead, on anti-fascism, highlight the adjective “true” why?
Here too, allow me to argue. Let’s start with work, which is the central theme for the Communists. Today, work is in fact the least of the government’s interests, except when it has to attack its rights. Since wages are no longer an independent variable, wages have gone down. But not only wages, but also rights, with the equation of permanent and fixed-term work, which has made everyone blackmail. The collapse of wages has made society as a whole more vulnerable and exposed to arbitrariness and downward competition. What happen? That profits are made by destroying jobs and cutting down more and more the number of workers. This is in accordance with the enormous phenomenon of automation. There are two ways out. The capitalist one, which increasingly reduces workers and with it wages and therefore the contribution they make to the wealth of society, and the socialist one, which decreases working hours, increases wages, reduces the retirement age and makes everyone work , less is better. The balance of retirement accounts is challenged not by the fact that the average life span is increasing, which is no longer true, but by the fact that the taxpayer population is frighteningly reduced. Let all young people work, with contracts in order that put them in a position to pay contributions, and we would see how the INPS accounts will rise again. But who has to create jobs? To produce what, but above all to sell to whom? this is the point where capitalism finally breaks down. Actually not from today. Already Marx a century and a half ago explained these mechanisms to us in a way that is still very current today.
The state must take care of creating work, repaying the wages it distributes with its goods and services. It is elementary. Instead, privatization policies have done the exact opposite and are leading the country to collapse. Nationalization (under the control of the workers) or privatization, socialism or barbarism, this is the crossroads we face.
Finally, peace is not a foregone conclusion. How can anyone who defended the imperialist wars of aggression around the world led by the USA, but then perpetrated by all his acolytes, speak of peace? Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan. All wars in which Italy took part against their own interests, as a nation, but in favor of monopoly interests that compete to sit at the table of the great criminals to participate in the banquet of bloody profits: weapons, oil, drug trafficking.
And then the fake anti-fascism of those who voted for the equation with communism, confusing those who have always defended the workers with those who attacked, imprisoned, murdered and precipitated them into war and the blackest infamy in the history of Italy. Today the fake anti-fascism serves to cover all the opprobrium of this system. The danger of fascism is stirred up, artfully guided as in the old strategy of tension, to normalize dissent on the left. You have to stay with the union leaders, you have to stay with the “left” parties that have massacred social rights. There is no room for dissent. Either stay with Draghi, or stay with the right. The Communists denounce all this and raise the flag of true anti-fascism, which has always been and always will be anti-capitalism, and do not let any banker or anyone of his kind put their hand on their shoulder in a “protective” way.
“All united! all together! But sorry, isn’t that the master? ” recited Dario Fo back in 1971, so over 50 years ago! Well, today we are still there, having to carefully discern enemies from friends, those who want to fight coherently against the government and its allies and those who travel together in one way or another.
It must be said that you have not chosen an “easy” day. Aren’t you afraid of provocations?
The Communists suffer provocations every day. Let alone if we get scared. However, we can assure all peaceful protesters who want to come, that they will be safe with us and that they must not be intimidated by the alarms. The demonstration will be safe and peaceful.
We have chosen a crucial day for the destinies not only of our country, but perhaps of the whole world. The heads of the most powerful states in the world meet in Rome to outline the next future policies. Already from the holdings you can see how the alignments are positioning themselves.
Today we are witnessing the escalation of threats from a US-led Euro-Atlantic-Pacific West and all those who oppose its diktats. This appointment follows the chilling resolution of the G7, held in Carbis Bay in Cornwall last June, a true declaration of war against China and all those who want to oppose the world order led by the USA. This G20 seems destined to extend the American diktat and put even the most reluctant in line in the new race towards war. The signals follow one another. The new submarines and the integration of Australia into the Anglo-American strategies in the Pacific. Naval maneuvers off the Chinese coast with the participation of the English team. The threats and aggression against Putin. In short, it seems that the opponents are dividing: the heavyweights (USA and UK) against China and the middleweights (European Union) against Russia (and Iran).
You have exposed the dangers of war that come from the West. But wars are made in two. It is not that China and Russia are so subtle! Now even Belarus is going to violate the rights of migrants.
There is a huge difference between the two contenders. Unlike what happened on the eve of the First World War, in which everyone wanted to go to war, today one side has no interest in confrontation. China, Russia and all peoples have an interest in living in peace and in expanding equal trade relations. Ours, too, has no interest in tightening international relations but rather in making trade flourish with everyone; instead he is forced to impose sanctions on Russia that harm us, to get out of interesting projects with China from which the development of our communication networks would have an advantage, above all to participate in expensive war missions completely contrary to our own interests. And why? Only a very small minority of monopolists, who are for the free market only as long as it is controlled by them and do not admit competition, is for unequal relations and for the imposition of these through force and even war. What are all those American bases doing around China? What are all those NATO bases doing around Russia? China aspires to national reunification, based on the “one country, two systems” system. This is what he did in Hong Kong and the majority of the citizens of that territory are happy about it; only a handful of troublemakers parade (and even attack Parliament with violent methods that would not be tolerated in the least by any government) with the flag of the British colonialists. Crimea held a referendum in March 2014 with a turnout of 84.2% and votes in favor of reuniting with Russia of 95.3%. Is what went well for Kosovo not good for Russia? Let them try to do so, gentlemen, such a democratic referendum. But here the referendums are overturned, like the one on public water. As for Belarus, Lukashenko is welcoming refugees in hotels and allows all those who wish to move to the border with Poland if they want to try to overcome it. The walls are placed by Poland, not Lukashenko. If, on the other hand, he created the concentration camps with our money, as Erdogan does, to keep refugees away from us, then he would be a democrat. But do we realize how far we have come with the reversal of reality?
I would like to underline that ours will be an internationalist demonstration with the presence of a delegation from the Communist Party of Germany. We consider this presence particularly significant to give a signal that our battle is not “nationalistic”, that our internationalism unites us with our German comrades, with whom we want to develop, as well as with all the communist parties of Europe (for us the Europe begins in Lisbon, but ends in the Urals), a common strategy against capitalist policies and for peace based on anti-imperialism.
Therefore, fighting against NATO, against imperialist wars, against Europe and against the attack on workers’ rights in Italy (and in the world) is one and the same.
Also for this reason on the 30th we invite all those who are tired of this situation to come to our demonstration in the afternoon in Rome Piazza San Giovanni.
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