editorial Ateneinrivolta
"Better late than never" might say. After months of protests by students, workers, women, the case has come to call a general strike by the CGIL.
is no doubt that the pressure from below has been instrumental in forcing the direction the largest Italian trade union to un'indizione nothing short of a duty. For months, the general strike was one of the main demands of the mobilizations that have crossed this country and at present a result - though small - appears to be achieved, precisely because it was obtained despite the resistance of the headquarters of the CGIL. But look closely at this to date is likely to be one of the classic Pyrrhic victory.
Not only because of the inadequacy of the arrangements for convening four hours that appear ridiculous in front of impassive strength of our opponents and compared to recent experience in France where several days were not enough to block the country's total. But above all
because this strike seems to avoid any possibility of generalization. Let us note, the question of timing of the meeting is not a technical problem of agenda. There is simply no time to fill a distance, but a political distance.
This strike is not the slightest evidence to weave a pattern consistent with ongoing conflicts, indeed seems to deliberately look away from the extraordinary uprising of December 14 as the working-class resistance to Mirafiori. It does not see even the wave of indignation - in some variant highly questionable - dell'antiberlusconismo executioner. Focuses on himself, forcing everyone to follow him and put buffers to its weakness. Therefore, though they are still necessary, it seems entirely inadequate. And we wonder how we can extend it to produce a far from obvious, not just a debate almost entirely within the CGIL - we willingly leave to those directly involved - and without giving way to an easy optimism of the will, which too often We blanched. In fact, many remember when we forced the same CGIL general strike during the Wave movement in 2008, without significant results despite the thrust of the student movement still strong.
Generalizing the strike is now a common priority and potential damage new, we are the first to believe it. But we must dare, dare really, the earth seems to ignore the CGIL.
With our appeal last week's we tried to put the urgency of the uprising, before the misery of Italian politics and the extraordinary experience of North Africa. An insurgency can only give the multiplicity of subjects in recent months have put a resistance to the policies of the crisis, the attack of the profits on the job, constant erosion of the public to the private sector. A plurality today due to the strict scope of the strike CGIL, made up of temporary workers, migrants, students, committees in defense of water and territory. A plurality that requires more.
No abstract evocation, not myth-making of twentieth-century North African riots. But there seems a clear need for a new collective narrative, a new social role that reasons from the beginning on how to reopen a public space, which may occur through its constituent steps. The main lesson of North Africa is not so much, even essential, the ability to do it, but the pressing need for self-organization by social actors, directed the invasion as the only way to win again. Just starting a process like this also strike CGIL will be generalizable and will take on new characteristics with respect to the tired ritual to which we have used the past ones.
national assembly of the Socialist opposition in March it will be useful if a large, plural, participatory and to the extent that these crucial points melt, and if look to the coming months with a view of the whole and not only in view of general strike of the CGIL, if he can imagine a trajectory that could be the common heritage and not just a partial set of dates to cross.
still think that the calendar this spring lack of a national rally of the opposition Social that may be functional to exactly what has been said so far and it seems important to verify in the next period for the possibility of a common path to that effect. We do not claim - nor the inclination - to establish as early as today that it will be possible or not. also because, on the true realists, never stop to demand the impossible.
Ateneinrivolta - National Coordination of Collective
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