A-Infos (en) Italy, Trieste, GA Germinal: ON THE FIGHT IN DEFENSE OF CONSULTANTS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

For nine months, the significant mobilization carried out by 
Nonunadimeno-Trieste and the Committee for participation in family 
counseling centers has been taking place in the city and has ensured 
that the shameful halving of counseling centers did not take place in 
silence as Asugi had hoped. ---- This fight is an example of how social 
issues are treated by institutions, whether local or national: those who 
dissent only have the right to be ignored, and if they raise their 
voices too much, the police are there. End of discussion.

What happened on Thursday 1 February under the regional council in 
Piazza Oberdan is only the latest act of an arrogance that overflows 
from the buildings every day.

It doesn't matter whether we're talking about public health, the 
environment, the districts or the cable car: those who govern (and it 
doesn't matter if they represent a very minority part of the population) 
show their increasingly authoritarian face every day.

"Optimization", "rationalization" and "development" are the magic words 
repeated on every occasion to justify cuts to social services, social 
spaces, and to impose mega works that are useless and harmful to the 
environment.

The fascist-led government currently in office has clearly given an 
authoritarian acceleration to the political framework, but the trend has 
been underway for years: now every space for political mediation in 
social conflicts has closed, and who better than the heirs of fascism is 
suitable to complete this process?

If it is clear to us that at this moment the main enemy is this 
right-wing government and its local offshoots, we also have a long 
memory and we have not forgotten that the dismantling of social services 
- starting from healthcare and schools - sees aligned from all political 
parties for years.

For this reason we have always believed that struggles must be carried 
out with maximum autonomy from the institutional and political 
framework, through the most diverse, multifaceted and broad experiences 
of social self-organization.

In this sense, the battle in defense of the counseling centers has so 
far been an example of how to build a broad consensus in society without 
abandoning radicalism in the contents and methods of struggle.

In front of us the other side feels strong but we know that we can win, 
as happened for example with the fight against the Danieli steelworks 
project in San Giorgio di Nogaro. We need to work to increasingly 
transform the widespread anger among people into awareness and the will 
to fight.

For our part, we will, as always, be alongside the Nonunadimeno 
comrades, the Committee for consultants and all the experiences of 
grassroots struggle.

Germinal Anarchist Group

https://germinalts.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/04/sulla-lotta-in-difesa-dei-consultori/
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