Giorgio Cremaschi.
The decision of the Directors of the CGIL union to call a general strike is definitely a step forward, which arises from the intense influence of the movement of fighting in recent months. However, the general strike is still not in camp because the date is not fixed, and this decision is inconsistent throughout the political transition now living the CGIL.
The debate in the Committee has seen for the first time a breakdown of the conference alignments. Not only
Fiom, not only the congressional minority, albeit with different accents, but also pensioners, the CGIL Emilia, the FLC has asked the general strike in the near future. On the other side, some structures of the North, particularly in Milan and Liguria, they looked the wrong choice of the strike now. In the midst of a vast array of leading groups on the one hand he feels the need of the general strike, but the other can not grasp the contradiction of it with what has been stated by the central leadership.
Fiom National Assembly, held in early February, the head of the confederation had said with frank brutality that the general strike was not on the agenda because the CGIL was trying on the one hand, to establish a dialogue on the representation with CISL and UIL, second, a pact for growth with Confindustria.
in those days, however, the Government, CISL and UIL signed yet another separate agreement for civil servants, while the Confindustria and Federmeccanica showed an increasingly convinced alignment with the positions of Marchionne.
Now the negotiations for the renewal of the contract business is reinventing the same dramatic scenario. Businesses, in agreement with CISL and UIL, claiming a total downward revision of contracts, the settlement of two levels of bargaining, the dismantling of the personal rights of workers, the rest to the disease, the full acquisition in the texts of all contractual the most barbarous rules on flexibility wanted by the government.
destructive project for a class already massacred by flexibility and insecurity, the CGIL, even in its more moderate members, it can not subscribe. If you then get to another separate agreement, the majority of Italian workers would be subject to contractual arrangements, which excludes the CGIL and ravaging the national contract, personal freedom and union.
face of all this was hard to continue to deny reality.
And in fact, already in the report and in the debate, for the first time in a long time, showed an awareness of how difficult the reconstruction of a short drive with CISL and UIL, and has spread to these two organizations on charges of being accomplices of the government and Confindustria. However, this acknowledgment of reality has not produced a thorough review of alternative line on which to build.
change reality, but we try to deal with continuing on the path followed so far. For this, facing the pressure of categories and structures, it was decided the general strike, but without specifying the date. These are a reserve policy and also a contradiction, that may impair the function and effectiveness of the strike itself.
This decision is contradictory, with clear evidence, the strategic difficulty of the CGIL. One difficulty reflective of the political opposition to Berlusconi. The latter, despite the criminal support for Gaddafi, processes, political and moral impresentabilità, continues to keep his place, while the opposition still does not bite in earnest.
There is a fundamental reason for all this, the one who makes the difficult journey of CGIL. Berlusconi, however unpresentable, has managed to build a block of stable power with Confindustria, the CISL, the UIL.
This power bloc was strengthened and supported by the offensive of authoritarian and unconstitutional Marchionne that with the widespread consensus that collects in the palaces of the policy and power, has come to shore up the creaking of the domain owner of Mediaset. The apparent asymmetry between political conflict and social conflict strengthens the whole of the Prime Minister.
Parliament is divided in half, the mainstream press and the public are against Berlusconi, but the consensus breaks Marchionne left to conquer businesses and unions accomplices. So the offensive against social materiality Berlusconi ends up losing and that is that the opposition is weakened.
Only the great social and civil opposition, what he saw as the ultimate expression of women in the exceptional mobilization February 13, can change the cards in table. But this opposition needs to see how the decisions and struggles that Berlusconi not only opponents but also Marchionne and the power bloc and economic union that supports it. This is the harsh reality of the CGIL hour general strike that has to do. A general strike, in order not to be a pure act of witness, must be placed fully in the radical movements that are shaking the country.
CGIL decided the strike but did not set a date. E 'and therefore for all those who so far have fought for it, plunge the necessary political maturity in time to affect the current reality. Tomorrow will take place in Rome Autoconvocate an assembly of delegates, which could boost the mobilization for a general strike.
A day is scheduled the meeting of the minority Congress of the CGIL. All movements mobilize today have an interest in this blessed date because of the strike finally comes, and arrive in time to affect the political struggle taking place today.
The general strike will not be yet another ritual event, like the last that took place. Will be a meeting and an act of force of all movements with the world of work. Should really try to block the country. Will have to see America on the world of work, you see clear national contracts, with that precarious world, that a national agreement never arrived. Will see the social struggle to unite with the civic and moral protest against Berlusconi and his government. Must be a social and political strike at the same time.
All this does not yet exist. There is only a formal decision in the field and incomplete Directors CGIL. It is up to all of us to act now because in Italy there is finally a real general strike. When we get we will ensure that it is a start time of the fight against the system of power that, from Berlusconi to Marchionne, is making us pay all costs of the crisis.
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