A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #198 - For the alternative (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Meloni government is unable to distance itself from its tendency to 
imitate the habits and glories of fascism and approves its version of 
the "fascist laws". It does so by resorting to a decree law, 
interrupting the practice that requires that laws amending the penal 
code be voted on as legislative measures by Parliament and not 
proceeding with emergency measures. Now the Italian legal system is 
enriched with 14 new crimes, punishable by very heavy penalties. The 
opposition protests noisily, ostentatiously, but nothing more, 
demonstrating once again the ineffectiveness of its action: after all, 
the numbers in the chamber are merciless and the opposition is incapable 
of mobilizing the streets: it has accumulated great discredit. It is a 
fact that the approval of these laws occurs by generating disinterest on 
the part of the majority of the country.
Regardless of the balance of power in parliament, this is possible 
because the oppositions are discredited, abstention from voting is 
increasing, and a minority of citizens have been able to provide the 
current majority with the numbers to govern. It is therefore necessary 
to investigate the reasons for the discredit of the opposition parties 
and the causes of their inability to represent the electorate, their 
inadequacy to govern the country.

The reason is clear and well-known, the left-wing parties, or even 
simply reformist ones, no longer represent the interests of the 
subaltern classes, but are an integral and organic part of the dominant 
establishment, part of a jumble of unified interests, those of the 
so-called right-thinking people, who claim to interpret the desires and 
needs of the country, proposing themselves to the government with 
positions and ideas compatible with those who are the class enemies.

Work

Only recently, timidly, are we beginning to tackle, with the referendum, 
the liberticidal legislation on work that the left itself wanted in its 
time, trying to settle the accounts with a brutal attack on their living 
conditions and on a season of struggles that had seen the hopes of 
workers and their rights grow. But by taking advantage of this 
mobilization, we must move forward for better and higher wages, for a 
different organization of work, for a new labor legislation, which takes 
into account the introduction of artificial intelligence in production 
processes and which allows the expulsion from work of many and the loss 
of their possibility of a dignified life to be managed with equity and 
without inequalities, also by guaranteeing with solidarity support 
tools, this transition phase towards a new structure. Workers cannot be 
the ones to pay the costs of restructuring production chains at an 
international level, to pay the price of the crisis of the American 
empire and the cost of the transition from a unipolar world to a 
multipolar world in which the competitive capabilities of many areas of 
the world that have until now been exploited with colonial and 
plundering techniques emerge forcefully. The left responds to this 
attack by accepting the suppression of the citizen's income which, with 
all its limitations, represented and constituted a minimum measure of 
defense for the weakest segments of the workforce and society. The 
battle over the minimum wage is a small fragment of an overall 
discussion that must be made regarding the world of work, which above 
all needs to be unified. Until the left understands that the presence of 
illegal emigration is the black market of labor is an element of 
blackmail division of the world of work, it is an element of division 
between workers that creates competition, because there will always be a 
group that is increasingly poor and increasingly desperate, to the point 
of being willing to sell off their work, depressing the labor market to 
the lowest levels, until then, it will not seriously address the 
problem. The problem of emigration and the management of illegal 
migration is central to the strategy of and in the interests of the 
working class and must be taken on personally, managed with rationality 
and fairness, on the basis of the principle of solidarity. The labor 
market must be unified and there cannot and must not exist a difference 
in prices and wages between workers with different subjective conditions 
and status of rights that gives rise to different salary treatments. The 
price of labor must be the same for everyone and the work put on sale at 
the same price and under the same conditions because this is the only 
way to achieve a fair wage.

Healthcare and solidarity

Access to care is a universal right and must be guaranteed through free 
access to the healthcare service that must be improved and supported as 
the country's greatest wealth. It must be defended from the increasing 
attempts at privatization, from the ever-increasing disservices produced 
by the lack of necessary funding, which instead must be increased and 
supported by general taxation in relation to GDP growth and relieved 
from the burden of inflation. A health service that respects itself and 
that is such cannot be separated from a social assistance service and 
support for the weakest, the elderly and the disabled, from support 
services, including food, for the most disadvantaged parts of the 
population, through the creation of collective public canteens, which 
help and support the food needs of the most disadvantaged population, 
not leaving to private or religious charity, the task of supporting 
those most in need. Another of the basic needs to be satisfied is that 
of the right to housing, because there is no freedom and dignity if you 
do not have a place to live. A housing policy is also the basis for 
setting up a series of demographic policies, because it is part of the 
fundamental rights to ensure that every new group of people who decide 
to live together have the physical and material possibility in which and 
with which to realize this project. Without this, any intervention to 
support the realization of a life project is illusory and fallacious.

Peace

To realize even just parts of this "minimum program" the left and the 
progressive parties would need resources that can only be found through 
a policy for peace and radical and absolute rejection of war. This means 
the immediate abandonment of any program of economic support and weapons 
to belligerents around the world, starting with Ukraine and Gaza or if 
you prefer from Gaza to Ukraine, denying the State of Israel any supply 
of weapons and any commercial activity, until the genocide of the 
Palestinians is over. Not a weapon, not a loan, not a support for the 
Ukrainian government, finally abandoning the rhetoric of the aggressor 
and the aggressed, and acknowledging that we are faced with two 
oligarchic regimes that are disputing territories, massacring two 
peoples, in the name of their interest and to divide up the resources to 
exploit, and disputes over who should manage and govern the territories 
are resolved with the self-determination of the peoples, allowing those 
who inhabit the territories to choose forms and ways with which to 
govern themselves, without imposing with manipulations and deceptions, 
and even less with force, forms of government and forms of State. The 
people know well that wars are wanted by the masters who made the 
populations fight them and that those truly interested in the conflicts 
have always remained in the shadows to fatten thanks to the profits made 
from the wars, draining and channeling the enormous resources destined 
for rearmament and war, the social costs of a program like the one 
described above could be supported. This proposal would be understood 
and totally shared by the populations, beyond the political orientations 
of each one, we are convinced, and only a residual part of people would 
still be willing to continue in this massacre that characterizes the 
relationships between peoples today.

The rights of the person

Only once the material conditions are satisfied would it be right to ask 
ourselves the problem of giving realization to the rights of the person, 
to the aspiration of the rights of each one to the realization of his 
own person and this because the individual aspiration to realize each of 
us as a person cannot ignore the common good and the realization of the 
objective material conditions of general well-being for all. The 
hedonistic need to put oneself at the top of needs and to subordinate 
the rights and aspirations of everyone else to one's own is typical of a 
selfish and violent vision of human relationships that makes 
self-interest prevail over social well-being, not realizing that in this 
way it creates the conditions for a competitive and violent society that 
assigns to the strongest, the richest, the most violent, those who have 
no scruples, all the tools to realize their aspirations to the detriment 
and disadvantage of others, in reality oppressing them.

A program for governing

That said, before developing more or less abstruse political formulas 
such as that of wide or narrow fields, the various Schleins, Contes, 
Fratoiannis would do well to draw up a common, clear and unequivocal 
program, a platform for common action that constitutes the programmatic 
basis of the future government And call their readers to rally around 
it: we are convinced that they would receive a very different response 
from the one they have received so far.

But to be credible, this operation must be preceded by a cleansing 
action, characterized by the dismissal of a class of compromised 
politicians and policies that are the expression of the lobbies and 
interests that have until now guided Italian and European politics, 
especially on the left. This is the most difficult task because these 
people are well rooted in the centers of power, they control them and 
manage them as they please, they dominate the information, because they 
are the collectors of enormous economic and financial interests 
interested in profiting from this management of the world.

A program for immediate action

While waiting for the conditions we have set to be created, we cannot 
stand still and we must react with a campaign of civil disobedience. It 
is therefore necessary that the 14 crimes just introduced or at least a 
large part of them, those that have characteristics of more relevant 
social aspects, are committed and claimed by all those who fight for the 
defense of rights. The existence of heavy penalties and prison cannot be 
the reason to give up peaceful protests, traffic interruptions, 
non-violent resistance, abuse, the fight against pharaonic and useless 
projects passed off as strategies of public interest, we cannot give up 
claiming the right to housing. In other words, the fight continues, with 
greater risks, with a higher price to pay, highlighting the 
contradictions of the new rules with respect to the rule of law, so dear 
to those who say they love the liberal state and democracy, calling on 
the constitutional judiciary to pronounce.

The Editorial Staff

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