A-Infos (en) Italy, FAS Sicilia Libertaria: Editorial. Electoral fervor (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Electoral fervor is a constant in Italian politics (after all there are 
elections with an impressive succession), so it seems that the parties 
are making some movement, are active and committed to the problems that 
the nation faces. A little less enthusiastic are the voters who no 
longer go to vote, so much so that the number of voters has been reduced 
in recent years to less than 50% of those entitled to vote: convincing 
people to go to the polls is increasingly becoming a challenge. more 
difficult for the parties. However, they are not discouraged and 
continue their commitment with self-sacrifice. Always certainly for the 
good of the people and the nation.

What has been particularly inflamed in recent months are the parties of 
the left, already orphaned by a Draghi, a Monti or a Prodi, pervaded by 
an inspiration that makes them appear seriously intent on tackling the 
urgent issues that afflict us. Thus we see them weaving networks, 
inventing the most daring alchemies in order to regain the favor of the 
voters and be able to return to governing in the name of the sovereign 
people to guarantee their well-being and prosperity. They spare no 
effort in this, they travel the length and breadth of the country, they 
rush to wherever an electoral challenge is underway, they examine 
candidatures, they consult personalities of proven moral rectitude, 
sometimes they argue, they separate and then reunite, but everything 
always for the supreme good and in the interest of citizens. Then there 
is an aggravating circumstance that makes the need for an electoral 
affirmation of the left (or at least of the centre-left) even more 
pressing: the right-right government extraordinarily embodied by the 
first Italian woman prime minister. And if this government, in which 
echoes of a fascism that once was and is once again becoming reality 
before our eyes, drags us further and further into the abyss of 
unbridled authoritarianism, it is up to the left to save us. Here you are!

Well, however, this left, which has now also embarked on the 5 Star 
movement, no longer declaring itself to be either right or left, could 
be asked what the idea of society is that it wants to contrast with the 
right-right. What are your proposals regarding the truly fundamental 
issues that should be addressed today: war, environment, climate, 
migration, to which all the others are linked, and certainly not in a 
subordinate position: work, equality, rights, and so on. Now it would be 
too easy to demonstrate from the recent past how the policies of 
centre-right governments have been in perfect continuity with those of 
the centre-left, and vice versa, in a sort of pursuit of the removal of 
rights, the weakening of the working classes and the control of the 
exploited. Indeed, even on a linguistic level such expressions are 
banned from official communication: there are no longer any classes or 
exploited people, nor masters or exploiters, only self-entrepreneurs and 
start-ups.

In an interview a few weeks ago with the newspaper La Stampa, Democratic 
Party senator Graziano Del Rio, a respectable person, when asked about 
the Italian government's agreements with Egypt to stop migrants, 
responded to the question of what the Democratic Party's proposals are: 
" We will soon present a bill: we must favor regular and nominative 
entry channels. Anyone who wants to come to Italy should sign up to a 
list with their name and surname, so that we know who is entering the 
country. Only in this way can you discourage departures and have legal 
entries. Let's be clear, no one has the magic recipe in their pocket to 
govern a phenomenon like this, neither us nor the right, but together we 
could think like a great European country." This is just one example of 
a vision that represents the migrant as a potential danger (so how would 
it differ from the right?) and offers laughable solutions.

In the recent regional elections in Sardinia, the candidate of the 
"left", Alessandra Todde, presented herself with a program full of all 
the usual modernist phraseology that believes she can reconcile 
capitalism and justice, a technocratic reformism capable of guaranteeing 
the transition towards the new world sustainable and integrated, 
ecological and industrial, local and global. Here is an excerpt:

"The Sardinian labor market shows a high level of precariousness and 
massive youth emigration, aggravated by demographic ageing. The proposed 
strategy aims to reverse emigration and attract talent, enhancing higher 
education and job placement with a focus on innovation and smart 
working. Efforts to integrate active policies, training and employment 
services must be coordinated. It is crucial to adapt the labor market to 
global dynamics, promoting the employability and integration of 
migrants, with a careful eye on the quality and dignity of work".

"Making Sardinia a competitive and attractive region", is written in the 
program. Which right would not subscribe to this statement?

We do not want to say here that the right and the left are the same 
thing (but it is certain that this left does not have a real alternative 
vision to the right), and we will not stay here to argue that the 
elections are a scam and that if they really counted for something would 
have been abolished, which is also intuitive, however since for some 
decades now we have been witnessing an irreversible crisis of 
representative democracy, of its drift towards authoritarian forms, so 
much so that there is talk of democracy in many quarters, why not start 
a profound reflection on the role of elections and on alternative ways 
of implementing decision-making processes, which truly emanate from that 
people that institutional politics uses as a screen and fetish? If not 
the left-right - which dominates the media, presents itself as a valid 
alternative to the right-right and certainly has no interest in changing 
the status quo, at least what a few years ago was defined as the radical 
left should have more than one reason and more than one reason to escape 
the electoral pantomime. Unless she wants to remain a prisoner in a 
system from which she has already been exiled.

Angelo Barberi

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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