A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #20-26 - Strawberries and Blood. Murderous Bosses (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On June 1st, in Amendolara, a town in upper Calabria, a massacre of 
immigrants took place: four young laborers were burned alive in a car, 
at the hands of other immigrants carrying out their dirty and infamous 
role as gangmasters. --- Their names were Ullah Ismat Qiemi, Safi 
Iayjad, Amin Fazal Khogjani, and Waseem Khan. They worked in the 
strawberry harvest. ---- Given the brutality of the barbarity 
perpetrated, the news immediately hit the headlines, as they say. This 
immediately sparked the hypocritical whining of professional hacks, as 
well as the hypocritical declarations of politicians from the ruling 
party, the opposition, and the so-called union bosses, all ready to 
shout and write "never again!" and "enough with massacres of this 
nature." Crocodile tears.

Everyone knows that not only the northern part of Calabria, stretching 
from the Sibaritide to the Metapontino area, but also other areas in 
southern Calabria (e.g., the tent city of San Ferdinando), as well as 
other areas, especially in southern Italy, are infested by the sub-mafia 
known as gangmastering. This despicable, infamous practice is not only 
tolerated but actually promoted and protected by a myriad of companies 
who believe this way they can better blackmail and subjugate immigrant 
workers.
Everyone knows how immigrants are blackmailed and forced into a system 
of extreme exploitation, starvation wages, and forced to live and sleep 
in hovels, crammed ten or fifteen people into a space of just a few 
square meters. The bosses know it, the government knows it, the 
opposition knows it, the union bosses know it. They know it, but they 
pretend not to, until tragedy strikes.
Indeed, not only the established political forces, but also many among 
the so-called common people, while ranting about security with racist 
overtones, seem to delight in pointing to immigrants as potential 
criminals; some do so mildly, softly, with savoir faire, while others do 
so brutally with a megaphone. Meanwhile, the government, seeking 
electoral consensus, passes ever more repressive laws, which, 
coincidentally, do not target the bosses, the gangmasters, but rather 
those who dissent, those who fight against them and the gangmasters.
For their part, the institutional opposition and the union bosses, still 
seeking electoral consensus but on the opposite side, verbally express 
their dissent against the government's authoritarian logic, but 
meanwhile they let things go.
In short, while the institutional theater continues its course, the 
real-world effects continue to produce the same old gangrene: wars among 
the poor, exploitation among the working classes, and imperialist wars 
across the world, more broadly speaking.

On June 6, in Amendolara, a march promoted by the CGIL (Italian General 
Confederation of Labour) marched through the town's streets, converging 
on a central square. A march of several thousand workers, mostly from 
Calabria and other southern regions of Italy, to say no to 
gangmastering, to say no to the savage act perpetrated by two immigrant 
gangmasters that took the lives of three Afghan laborers and one 
Pakistani. Four young lives barbarically cut short, who, to be 
considered simply human, had to cease to exist. Otherwise, if they had 
been alive, according to the labels that the language of power attaches 
to all immigrants in a derogatory sense, they would surely have been 
considered simply the lives of illegal immigrants, irregular immigrants, 
potential criminals. It's time for states and governments, with their 
majorities and oppositions, union bosses, all subservient to the bosses, 
to stop their hypocrisy and assume their responsibilities for having 
built a world of oppressed and oppressors, exploited and exploiters, a 
world in which workplace deaths occur every day, a world of underpaid 
workers (and not just immigrants).
But given how well they wallow in this dirty world of theirs, if we wait 
for them to do so... the proverb goes, "the grass will grow." Therefore, 
now more than ever, it's necessary to restart grassroots struggles in 
the workplace, in the community, in the streets. Struggles not mediated 
by union bureaucracies or anyone else. Struggles of direct action, 
self-managed and self-administered. Struggles aimed at starting to 
build, right here and now, a new world founded on freedom. A world that 
puts an end to bosses and states, to oppression and wars.

D. Liguori

https://umanitanova.org/fragole-e-sangue-padroni-assassini/
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