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150 years of national unity gains and losses

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of national unification we should ask ourselves two simple questions .

The first: What is that from 1861 to now we think it was more than betrayed the ideals of the Risorgimento?

The list is short:
1. the South was the big penalized, whatever someone has wanted to turn it into a huge colony of human resources, and natural materials for the industrialization of the center-north. If you still experience the Southerners as traitors and even the Savoy Garibaldi, the reason is this: the chronic lack of land reform in favor of the rural populace, the clear subordination of the needs of agriculture to industrial.

2. National unity and industrial process meant to say off of a social system based on private capitalism no alternative whatsoever, that capitalism will ensure that the economic miracle of the belle époque and consumerism fifties and sixties, but also to banditry, emigration, the abandonment of land, the massive penetration of capitalism in the countryside (and thus the formation of monocultures for markets and at the end of any experience of consumption and village communities).

3. The development of private capitalism, then the first competitive monopoly (with the support of the State), resulted in a irreversible destruction of the natural environment in the sense that it was decided to privilege the " production of industrial goods" rather than " reproduction of natural assets (to our imposed by force has run the country the idea of \u200b\u200b"consume" as many goods as possible).

4. The centralization of political power in the Roman capital, has greatly embarrassed the uses, customs, traditions, local languages \u200b\u200band regional, as well as the autonomy of local communities and local authorities (which now seeks to recover, without calling into question the capitalist development of the country, through the idea of \u200b\u200b"federalism" which, incidentally, seems to proceed in parallel with an acceleration of the political process towards a presidential republic).

5. The permanence of a "state Vatican "made it impossible effective legal and political separation between church and state, an affirmation of the secular state, a truly democratic formulation of the constitutional provisions relating to freedom of conscience and religion (Article. 7, for example, would simply be eliminated).

The second question: What is that from 1861 to today has developed more pro-democracy social, cultural and political?

1. After World War II has developed the welfare state (school, health, social security, assistance, etc..), But has begun progressively dismantled since the early eighties and especially after the collapse of the so-called "real socialism ", of which the welfare state in Western countries constituted a kind of "mimesis". It does this without realizing that the inevitable outcome of pure liberalism have, to date, two world wars, separated by decades of brutal dictatorship, and where he has not set the political dictatorship (eg in France or England) was only because it still benefited from the old colonial empires, that is a dictatorship of the economy.

2. The battles conducted from the labor against capital (years Winds, Resistance and the sixties and seventies) have certainly helped to improve the living conditions of workers, but these gains are gradually decreasing, mainly due to the fact that global capital is leading to the relocation of the West, where labor cost is minimal.

3. The woman has certainly increased awareness of their own gender diversity to be enforced in the relationship with the man, but Italy remains a country far behind other countries in Northern Europe. Especially the Italian woman is unable to intervene in the representation that you give the media (TV, cinema, paper and print advertising).

4. E 'increased sensitivity to consumer issues , but it is still very strong economic hegemony of the producers. The consumer sees the manufacturer as an enemy to fight because the producer sees the consumer as a "chicken plucking".

5. E 'significantly increased interest in environmental issues for organic produce and environmentally friendly ones, but overall this does not detract from the dominant trend, which is based on plunder and waste of natural resources, and this illusion that science and technology should always be able to solve their own problems, but also in the mistaken perception of causing minimal damage with our bad behavior, not to mention the irresponsibility with which we assign to others or to future generations the task to correct our failures.

6. E 'increased sense of belonging to a European community , but we are still far from having a common European identity. Member States continue to move separately and do not want to give the European Parliament real powers. Religions, especially the Roman Catholic, significantly inhibit the formation of a European secular. Europe continues to be perceived as a plus, and often useless oneroso.Probabilmente But the thing that is lacking in conscience of Italians is the meaning of democracy or secularism, which, although certainly we lack more than elsewhere in Europe.

E 'rather than an awareness of what Italy has done in the world. We know nothing of how our country is moving abroad. We do not know what to produce, what to buy, how to do it, which has relations with all countries on earth. Especially do not know what are the international linkages that determine our health.

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Japan, the economy of the disaster: the butterfly effect

Last Friday, the quake of 8.9 Richter scale that devastated the northeast Giappne has waved the skyscrapers of Tokyo a few moments before the bag shut , however, influencing the performance. Sure, the Nikkei index futures on lost three points, but despite not yet know the tsunami, the construction sector already made quite a leap high, with the actions of some of the most construction companies hit that recorded to over thirty percent. When

Tokyo closed and the news from Japan have spread throughout the world, stock markets have begun to behave schizophrenic, with Wall Street, as a matter of good last time zone, which observed that even a appreciation of the yen. The reason? Capital Japanese - ie yen in fact - that go home for the reconstruction .
And just to complicate the overall picture, the price of oil fell all markets while that of gas rose . For the first, concern over the setback of the economy of Japan, the third largest consumer in the case the second, on the contrary, it is expected that Japan will use them more likely to compensate for the reduction of nuclear energy available.

The unpredictable and cynical stock price, however, reveals at least two truths .
First : paper economy (read " finance) and real economy are interlaced through thousands of links to the most inscrutable. According
: the human and social disaster coupling earthquake-tsunami could have unexpected results , the medium to long term, for the Japanese economy reeling and the global whole. In

fourth quarter of 2010, the GDP of the Rising Sun had recorded a contraction of 1, 3 percent . Today, many analysts believe the boom (re) construction trainer as Japan's economy was already in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chinese growth, in short, with a difference. Wall

addition, construction and infrastructure, although the smell of bubble, housing demand is still driven by a multitude of pressure to improve their standard of living. In Japan instead, with the violence of nature , unfolds the capital: the destruction becomes opportunity for a new process of accumulation and may appear after all, a few eye capitalist, a good news.

Nell ' immediate, it is expected, however, a contraction of the economy . Some factories are closed, the reduced production the slow communications. An ironic fate for the inventors of the Toyota of just-in-time , the idea that to accede to the demands of a fickle market and finished, we should not keep goods in stock , but to circulate it to the maximum speed and efficiency to get there, where there is demand before and better than others.
Today there is no market for circulation, and if there were, it would not be anywhere. We must lick their wounds and then, slowly, again. Reconstruct, in fact.

Maybe some stores' Fuller would serve to counter another emergency already see that. And here the effects are global . The destruction, especially the tsunami , has dealt a severe blow to production of rice, of which Japan is one of the largest consumers worldwide (9 million tonnes ). Finite stocks, Tokyo will import massively, giving further impetus to the price of commodities and to ' food inflation, children of global warming and global speculation.
is because of this economic link earthquake that rhymes with intifada, tsunami with bread riots.

is said, in chaos theory, that the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in Brazil can trigger a hurricane in Japan. Today, in the opposite direction, a earthquake in northeastern Japan can make a boat landing African migrants in Lampedusa .

Gabriele Battaglia

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Nuclear? tuttapposto!

Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan cause for dismay. The reactions can not be that of solidarity and support to the Japanese people affected by this tragedy.

In this tragedy there is an event that speaks directly to Italy: they are the consequences of accidents in nuclear power plants. Have not yet clear all the consequences, including the reluctance of the government. It 's a fact that the incidents were, however, hour after hour, more and more serious, until the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and the release of radioactivity to which for now do not know the exact severity.

The Italian government has resorted to a vote of confidence to re-introduce nuclear power in Italy should reflect the light of events in Japan.
The Italian government should decide to suspend the nuclear program, or at least until a blocking implementation of the forthcoming referendum that aims to erase the law 99/2009, awaiting the verdict of the voters.

So far the government has shown to be afraid of the referendum and prefers to throw out the window of € 300 million just to avoid a successful referendum. This can be done to coincide with local elections a referendum to save 300 million, but the Executive knows that nuclear power has been approved by parliament alone imposing it by a vote of confidence and that the majority are still against it.

The nuclear option has been made under pressure from the Italian and international lobby's business relies on the nuclear deal, in defiance of the outcome of the referendum of 1987, with rates up to 80% who spoke out for leaving the nuclear power.
There is first a matter of democracy. Can a parliament like this, more blackmailed by a vote of confidence, overturning the vote of the citizens?

At this point the end of the next referendum abrogation must be used to stop the crazy choice of the government to return to nuclear power plants in Italy and to dispel a public good like water. There is an obvious synergy between the referendum to ensure that water remains a public good and what to block the nuclear option.
reach the quorum in the referendum is the most difficult to overcome, so the fact the Government has chosen to boycott the vote.

to vote and contribute to the quorum is a good antidote to the alienation election that for two decades is affecting our country. Because the nuclear
be secured? First of all, for reasons of cost. Enel has tried to show that nuclear power should, but it also told bales on the real cost of building new power plants. In 2009, Enel said that a new central EPR would cost three billion euro. Faced with the explosion of the costs of prototypes Finnish and French had to raise the figure to four billion. In fact, the real cost is now eight billion euro in Central Europe. With these costs is not possible to produce electricity at prices lower than current sources, they will be even greater.

is not even true that Italy would be energetically more autonomous, because we import almost everything, certainly the most sophisticated technologies and fuel. In addition, the nuclear fuel is available for several decades, just as oil and other fossil fuels. 200 entrepreneurs as they said, before signing Pasquale Pistorio, investing over 30 billion in nuclear power plants for the first 4 would mean de facto blocking investments in energy saving and renewable.

Italy does not have the resources to do everything. Enel confirms that he has sold part of its renewable energy to reduce its debt and then throw in expensive nuclear adventure.
Nuclear power plants are enormous concentrations of investments and thus business with any concerns arising. While energy saving and renewable energy is spread over thousands of investment professionals and disseminated.

Nuclear power is dangerous. The disposal of radioactive waste has not been resolved in any country in the world. Add to this the problem of nuclear waste from power plants accumulatea abandoned and the sites where they are built. There are
waste that will release radiation for tens of thousands of years, some types for hundreds of thousands. Building the central condemning future generations to live with the dangers and consequences of these choices for times greater than those of known human history.

This is the worst gift that current generation can do in those to come.
After Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, there is now a serious accident in Japan. Not to mention many other incidents, fortunately less serious news which are hidden. For example, in France there have been 19 accidents in the first two months of the year.
The dangers are not represented only by accident. The power plants release radiation during their normal operation, as shown in various investigations. The latest research was carried out in Germany and found in areas close to nuclear power plants, an increase of 2.2 times of leukemia in children.

advantage of the Libyan crisis and rising oil prices the nuclearists returned to the attack by failing to say that nuclear power plants are not the solution, because even the most optimistic among them admit that before 2020 will not come into operation. Up to 2020 we do?

In fact the solution of energy problems is on energy saving and renewable energy because it does not depend on international events, because they can be introduced quickly, with more limited investment and employment results 15/20 times more nuclear. The Government, as is known, is doing the opposite and thus risk undermining the development of renewable energy to promote the nuclear adventure. Just pointing

on energy saving and renewable energy could be ready for the events of 20/20/20 agreed with Europe.
If the Government, as is likely, it will ignore all the precautionary principle will require the reinforcement of the mobilization to reach the quorum and win the referendum on nuclear power, as well as the public good on the water.

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"In defense of the Constitution" is not a slogan any. Today's demonstration can be a turning point if he can clarify - finally - what is the land on which it is happening in Italy, the most difficult political battle, but also the deeper cultural battle. And from now.

The entire last two decades has run marked by the desire to change the "constitutional pact." In particular, the emergence of Berlusconi and impulse that gives rise to a post-constitutional political cycle.

The "descent into the field," the entrepreneur Berlusconi is explicitly motivated by the classic view of the constitutional system. The party-promoted company that he has no connection with the Constitution. Indeed, the constitution is to it a foreign body, an impediment to the immediate realization of political goals to be achieved.

The division of powers, guarantees of the rights, measures to balance between the public, respect for different roles and prerogatives of each individual institution (the Parliament to the judiciary, the Constitutional Court to the President of the Republic) , representing the essence of democratic constitutionalism, suddenly become only a hindrance.

is the Constitution that "impossible to govern," which hampers the government of doing. A government that derives its legitimacy from the consent of only a minority of citizens, disguised as a majority of people (if not uniformly for all the people intended) thanks to an electoral distortion accompanied by a misleading propaganda.

Like all populist schemes only what counts is the cry, the ability to bring power to a source of popular origin, not real people, in its divisions and its contrasts, but to his face legendary. Once invested with the power of the "sovereign" has no limits, he - he alone - who will act for the good of the people, to his father.

The 'elected' the people (but not elected by the people) certainly can not be judged on how they work, the delegation of political power given to him is absolute, there can be no counter, no law can be invoked before those who embodies the people without any burr in his "total identity." How much further away from the idea that constitutionalism has imposed in modern times legal, breaking its medieval belief of the absoluteness of sovereignty.

Constitutionalism supremacy of the rules imposed on that power today is not the case back to talk of 'neo-medieval institution. "
But in Italy this long history of decline appeared to form over the new policy, able to answer the obvious crisis of representative democracy. A crisis, that of political representation, which could not - and can not - be denied.

For a long thirty years, our life has been organized by the democratic mass parties, which absorbed the whole of popular representation.

Entitled in this role by a clear constitutional provision (Article 49), parties history that gave birth to the republic and innervated - for better and certainly worse - the Italian constitutional democracy were all well aware that their power, and that of many leaders that have ruled the government had an essential basis of legitimacy in the Constitution.

Clash political divisions could be turned on and irreconcilable, but the board of constitutional values, the emancipatory project in which it was written, were not explicitly challenged by anyone. The ideologies of the twentieth century divided, but united constitution. Set yourself above the law would not be conceivable, it meant undermining the Constitution. Fidelity to the Constitution could not be discussed under penalty of exclusion from political representation of the circuit. Then it is no longer the case.

If you want to examine the underlying reasons that led the various political forces (some more than others) to abandon the strategy of constitutional legitimacy, we can not stop the apparent crisis of mass political parties.

There is no necessary link between a certain kind of party and the constitution. This goes far beyond the specific forms of organization that takes on the free political debate in individual countries and in different historical contexts.

United States - for example - with a European mass parties have never existed and the personalization of power is included in the democratic culture of the people, but respect for the Founding Fathers have never ceased to be at the foundation undisputed power of each, even the president.

In Europe, you do not see any political system, albeit in crisis, challenge the legitimacy of lex superior, and indeed the "constitutional patriotism" is indicated as the way forward to overcome the difficulties of balancing political and social divisions that the economic downturn piercing.

In Italy the populist regime seems to be a step agonizing, but try the latest assault on the supreme law, planning un'epocale constitutional reform of justice. The square of 12 March given the immense task of collecting the fallen flag of the constitution to dismiss the past, where he arrived, the medieval knight who governs us.

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Nuclear Safety? Veronesi thinks!

Veronesi does your doctor by profession and in his free time, nuclear expert. Leaves his position as senator PDminusL Party (nuclear) for the presidency of the Agency for Nuclear Safety. 85 years old and, as is right, the consequences of nuclear power, a future that will never see, I do not care. With that dentures can say what he wants ...

Di Giorgio Ferrari, anti-nuclear Committee:
I worked in the nuclear field for over twenty years by carrying out checks on all nuclear fuel for power plants of ENEL and I have never heard so many coarseness by a scientist who plays a more as delicate as the President of the Agency for Nuclear Safety.

'm the only one nuclear expert to have made a conscientious objector after the Chernobyl accident, risking my professionalism and my own career and I think with dismay to the fact that nuclear safety is managed in the manner absurd of the government: twelve months to carry out a nuclear power plant licensing and national repository for the waste, when the largest security body in the world (U.S. NRC) it takes no less than three years providing over a thousand technical experts, while our Asn has only a couple hundred employees very poorly prepared.

Veronesi What do you know the problems that arise in the process of certification of a nuclear project?

of how to assess a maximum credible accident, being carried out during construction and operation of a plant?

of how even the most sophisticated security systems and procedures fail: the malfunction at Three Mile Island emergency services were only six and two were attributable to the factor human.

Sure, as long as doctors he will display the statistics of WHO and the IAEA, who argue that at Three Mile Island and that nobody died in the Chernobyl dead are a few thousand, then people will have to really fear for their safety.

There are scientists in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine who have shown in their study of the tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of post Chernobyl diseases, which are constantly ignored and boycotted by men such as Veronesi and dall'omertà that distinguishes majority of the so-called scientific community (not only Italian).

And enough with the lies that nuclear power makes us free from oil, as only 5 percent of electricity is produced from this source while the vast majority of its consumption is in transportation and industry, and then it is highly likely that the uranium will be esaurisrsi first of fossil fuels.

Enough with the fairy tale that all the problems of nuclear energy (waste from the Generation IV reactors will be resolved) because they are the same problems that we studied in thirty years ago Enel plans to address by 2000, and now that we are in 2010 tell us that their solution is moved to another thirty years!

If Veronesi is willing to keep nuclear waste in its bedroom, as seems to have said, is his business (although it would be interesting to know how they think their neighbors), but if the President of the ASN (which is an independent authority) says that nuclear power plants are designed to last up to a hundred years, then you open a serious problem of competence and reliability of the entire structure which, in my opinion, can only be solved by raising Veronesi from his post. "

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Provincial Councillor Simonetta Pellegrini, has trumpeted in the press and on television have allocated in the integrated action plan, funded by the European Social Fund, 6 million euro for the next two years. Let me clarify that, while the Fund is not "integrated" because the province does not take even one Euro, compared to those resulting from regional funding. Furthermore, it provides an allocation of € 3,000,000.00 in 2011 and 2,700,000.00 in 2012, practically 17% of resources in less than in 2010 and 34% less than in 2009.

Year	2009	2010	2011	2012
Resources provided	4,536,000.00 3,661,357.00		3031 .000,00	2,750,000.00

addition, the Province, in 2009 and 2010 enjoyed a special contract funded by the Foundation for MPS support the unemployed, which probably in 2011 and 2012 there will be no more. In fact, the Social Fund has been cut from the Region to finance other sectors, despite the Governor Rossi, after the Christmas speech of President Napolitano, announced that in 2010 put € 100 million available to the political youth. As usual, words, words, words.

Meanwhile, the young (unemployed) and the weaker sections of the province will have a Social Fund cut with machetes and newspapers continue to be clogged with unnecessary statements. This is the bitter and harsh reality.

Yesterday provincial councilors of the PD and the PDL IDV voted in favor of this cut, and the most seriously advised against a motion calling for the establishment of a special invitation and entry into the field of tools to supplement the incomes of the unemployed and the unemployed, including the establishment of a Solidarity Fund.

The regret for what happened is not only the finding that the PD and the PDL are all one in terms of economic policy, but the thing that disappointed me the most is seeing some councilors to vote against their will and making an escape, "I would not do it, but ... ..".

What happened yesterday in the provincial council in Siena is very serious and, unfortunately, reveals the inability politics and politicians in responding to the citizens they represent. I am aware of the critical moment that we are experiencing because of the economic and financial crisis, but that's why you need an extraordinary effort in seeking the means to ensure a decent living communities that you represent. We need a strong political and authoritative. When cutting the funds allocated to social means we're on the fruit, that the policy is powerless to which they can live without representation. It 'no use wasting money on elections. So nothing will change.

E 'must change course, restoring power to the elected Assemblies and citizens. need to rebuild a Left opposition, left a real showing in the councils the authority and power to change things and to give concrete answers to the needs of the weakest, so strong are guaranteed by power and money.

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general strike of four hours on May 6. "The worst of the best decisions"

Giorgio Cremaschi

E 'useless to hide behind the words. The general strike proclaimed by the secretary of the CGIL is presented as a strike in half. On the one hand, it is clear, it collects a question of mobilization that started from the square of 16 October where they met Fiom and movements.

other hand, however, not only for its size, the four hours, but also the goals, looks like a strike in complete continuity with the initiatives of the past.

On 26 June last year, the CGIL called for a four-hour general strike against the policies of the Berlusconi government. A year later, does the same same thing, in exactly the same way. Between these two dates has changed the world.

Marchionne's attack, one of the Gelmini, the spread from public to private, from the metal workers to teachers to staff the service sector, the devastation of contract, questioned everything. CISL and UIL accomplices were convinced that all the choices of the government and Confindustria, Fiat.

E 'advanced process of destruction of the welfare state in Italy is presented as Federalism.

All this was accompanied by worsening of the crisis of democracy, free elections in the abolition of Fiat as in the work public attack on the judiciary, attack the Constitution, the impunity of Berlusconi claimed and proclaimed as a system of government. Yet after all this, the general strike proclaimed by the secretary of the CGIL is the same as a year ago.

It 'obvious that this error of sensitivity and political decision stems from a basic flaw that persists in the line of the confederation. He continues to deny reality. We continue to believe that over Marchionne, over Berlusconi and Sacconi, as well as the separate agreements, there is still a world in which we can reconstruct a single policy with CISL and UIL and a social pact with the Confederation. This world does not really exist anymore.

There is now a block of power, a genuine dialogue that ensures that all major economic and social policy decisions are taken by mutual agreement between the League, Tremonti, Berlusconi, Confindustria, CISL and UIL. There is a power bloc that governs Italy concertation and excludes the CGIL.

This power bloc makes Berlusconi continues, despite his misdeeds, to remain in the saddle, while it seems inconclusive and ineffective political opposition. The leadership of the CGIL is still under the illusion that sooner or later Marcegaglia lady, the CISL, the UIL, make another policy.

It 's the same illusion that cultivates Bersani when asked the League to dissociate itself from Berlusconi. But to deny the reality may be more likely to change course and behavior. So, speculatively, to a political opposition that every five minutes asking the fall of Berlusconi, but does nothing real serious for this to happen, so the CGIL demands a profound change in the economic and social policies, but then does a general strike to block the country really.

E 'this contradiction that was immediately picked up in all workplaces where, after the first cautious satisfaction with the proclamation of a general strike, expressed the anger over the date and especially for four hours. Who errs, as does our dear friend Loris Campetti on the poster, understates the issue and get carried away in the old logic of the glass as half full.

This general strike as it is not right, must be changed. First you must put in the deck that it must be proclaimed not only against the government but also against the Confindustria and the system of enterprises. We think of Confcommercio, which is spreading everywhere, with the government, the model Marchionne.

must stop deluding ourselves that there is another good employer who is ready to dissociate the managing director of Fiat. Secondly, it should make a general strike of eight hours. Already several categories: school, the civil service, trade, metal workers, seem to have decided or determined to decide the extent of the strike. You have to try to block the country and not to make a strike situation.

In the coming weeks, every workplace, every union representation, each structure must be brought to discuss and decide on the objectives and the extent of the strike. The strike will be a meeting around the country fighting for rights and democracy.

For this you must meet the social movements and students. They must be active and participate in the strike and not simply viewers tolerated. Finally, this strike is also politically constructed than CISL and UIL. The unit on May 1, preceding the strike is pure hypocrisy and could even damage the day of the fight if that day on the streets, you should diplomatically silent about it.

Do a May 1 to prepare the strike, which explains the rationale and objectives and should be in place for that too. Never mind if CISL and UIL at this point it will be swept away or be forced not to participate.

must get serious. Every day, working women and men, young people, the unemployed and precarious workers are faced with tragedies that befall their lives. For this ritual mobilizations no use to anyone and may even be counterproductive. At this point we have two months to reach a general strike true. We ensure that every event - the March 11 trade unions to strike the base, the other struggles and protests, assemblies of students and social movements, civil society events, from March 12 to the water - even preserving their autonomy, of course, serve also to ensure that the strike of May 6th is a meeting point for all.

Impadroniamoci that date and we do not believe the general strike proclaimed by the secretary of the CGIL a date that marks the country's social and political life. With the knowledge Today more than ever the critical need to those elites who do not want to take the size of the hard and tragic conflict. The transformation of the strike on May 6 in a general strike true, it is the path on which we have to move.