A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #33-25 - Multiplying the struggles against the government. November 28: Every step matters (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The strike on November 28th is weighing heavily on the parliamentary 
debate surrounding the 2025 budget law. On the one hand, there are 
threats to limit the right to strike; on the other, there are attempts 
to demonstrate how this measure will not impact public services or the 
lowest incomes, defying ridicule; finally, there are efforts to find 
additional resources to provide some palliative to prevent the explosion 
of social anger.
The government is committed to a strategy of supporting profits and 
rents; this is the common ground of monetary, financial, fiscal, and 
industrial policy. The cornerstone of this strategy is the containment 
of nominal wages, in order to achieve a reduction in real wages, both 
through inflation and by cutting public services that constitute 
indirect wages. This budget law does not deviate from this strategy.

We can therefore say that not only does the government legitimize the 
right to property over the means of production and exchange and protect 
it with the violence of its organized repression, but it also directly 
worsens the conditions of the exploited classes, while simultaneously 
guaranteeing profits and rents. This government prominence, however, 
ends up transforming every struggle to improve living and working 
conditions into a political struggle against the government's strategy. 
Likewise, the criminalization of forms of peaceful struggle such as 
blockades, adopted throughout Italy during the October 3rd strike and 
often continued, risks transforming every peaceful struggle into an 
insurrectionary act. Furthermore, the government lacks the means to 
control a widespread mobilization; this is demonstrated by the fact that 
during the October 3rd demonstrations, the police and Carabinieri were 
not seen, and, where there were no leaders eager for advancement or 
particularly delicate situations, the day passed without incident.

The stubbornness with which the government, not only this one but also 
its predecessors, defends the interests of the privileged classes is 
thus reduced to providing revolutionaries with arguments for their 
action and simultaneously demonstrating the possibility of revolution, 
along with the futility of repression. That growing masses are realizing 
this is demonstrated by the general strikes of recent months and their 
success. The fact that even the main yellow union, the CGIL, has called 
two general strikes in two months testifies not so much to the leftist 
orientation of the current general secretary, but rather to pressure 
from below for more decisive action.

The next general strike will certainly have very different numbers from 
that of October 3rd, both due to the division within the union front-not 
only is the CGIL not striking, but neither is SICobas-and the exclusion 
of a large portion of public sector workers in the regions involved in 
the elections (Campania, Puglia, and Veneto).

November 28th remains an important opportunity to raise the issues of 
class unity and autonomy, along with the question of what to produce-an 
issue raised both by the struggle against the production and 
transportation of weapons and by experiences like the former GKN factory 
collective. Participating in every struggle will lay the groundwork for 
a general strike of expropriation.

Tiziano Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/moltiplicare-le-lotte-contro-il-governo-28-novembre-ogni-tappa-e-importante/
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