Rome. The demonstration we saw today in San Giovanni square was shocking: the democratic and anti-fascist people responded in a way they hadn't seen in ages to the Forza Nuova fascist squad attack on the CGIL headquarters last Saturday.
“No more fascism: for work, participation, democracy” is the slogan chosen among the flags, banners and balloons that animated both the square and the procession that started from Esquilino at 12,30:14 and arrived in an already crowded Piazza San Giovanni at XNUMX:XNUMX pm.
Slogans, chants, red flags, 'bella ciao' sung at the top of one's lungs, between 'who doesn't jump is a fascist' and 'vaccinated from April 25': this is not just folklore on a clear and blue Roman day. It was the compact response of the democratic people, of the left but also of those who identify with the ideals that animated the birth of the Italian Republic and the Constitutional Charter.
Families, young people, but also many old militants, children with red scarves around their necks, babies in strollers: the Italy that resists anti-democratic attacks is there and has responded peacefully to no-green pass, no-vax and to those who thought they could impose their anti-democratic ideas with violence, verbal and physical, over the course of these last months. The perfect response of the Italy that resists, that respects the pain of those who have lost their loved ones and their certainties in the Covid pandemic.
The only flaw in a perfect day, with an 'old-fashioned' security service of the left was the further attempt to undermine with a cyber attack the site collettiva.it that was broadcasting live the demonstration of solidarity with the Cgil. An attack that was promptly blocked and which the police are investigating. In fact, the National Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures of the Postal Police (Cnaipic) was activated and followed the evolution of the situation in constant contact with the technicians of the union.
But this has not affected the great democratic and anti-fascist mobilization of today.
Many political presences including the ministers Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Speranza, Andrea Orlando and Dario Franceschini, the leader of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, the president of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, the regional health councilor, Alessio D'Amato, the center-left candidate for mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, but also Sergio Cofferati, Pierluigi Bersani, Massimo D'Alema, Teresa Bellanova. Expected absent, the entire center-right, with the exception of the Forza Italia deputy Elio Vito, always a free-spirited explorer of the political prairies who had widely announced his participation in the demonstration. For everyone, a behind-the-scenes event with hugs and greetings to old comrades or old allies, but also many selfies with families and children. The 'backstage' was also a moment to understand agreements, alliances and frostiness between political exponents even of the same party or movement.
The stage was filled with speeches by a UIL pensioner, the general secretary of the CISL Luigi Sbarra, a nurse delegated by the CGIL, the general secretary of the UIL Pierpaolo Bombardieri, a female commerce worker delegated by the CISL, and the general secretary of the CES Luca Visentini. The general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio closed the event. Landini, amidst applause, a speech concluded with the notes of 'Bella Ciao'.
The secretary of the Cgil has inflamed a square, already charged (at least 200 thousand people according to the organizers, 60 thousand for the Police Headquarters) coming from all over Italy. In Piazza San Giovanni dialects, slogans and hugs mixed together. The culture of diversity and unity.
And Secretary Landini also spoke about culture when he underlined a particular aspect of Saturday's attack. "During the attack on the Cgil headquarters last Saturday, damage was done, works of art and paintings were also destroyed. But a beautiful painting by Guttuso at the entrance, they didn't touch it; perhaps because they didn't even understand what it was," he said from the stage. "There is a theme," and that is that "knowledge and culture must be a right guaranteed to all. With knowledge and culture, fascism and violence are defeated."
“This beautiful square speaks to the whole country” and is “of all Europe. This is not just a response to fascist squadrism, it is something more: this square represents all of Italy that wants to change the country, that wants to end the history of political violence” reiterated the secretary of the Cgil.
Maurizio Landini took up the themes of a political agenda that is more current than ever, starting from the fascist and squadrist attack of last Saturday.
"No to fascism, the groups must be dissolved, the forces that refer to fascism and that use violence must be dissolved. This square demands concrete actions and not chatter or commitments. From solidarity we must move to concrete action. It is time for the State to demonstrate its democratic strength in enforcing the laws and the Constitution" he said.
And then remembering a young student from Pescara, to whom he dedicated his speech together with the young people, he traced the union's line regarding the world of work: what is missing, what we need to start again from. "From this square we give a message of trust and hope to young people and women. It is thanks to the united union, Cgil, Cisl and Uil that the country can unite". "We dedicate this day to young people, to give them the hope of living without fascism" and "to women". "All together - he added - we must change the culture. Violence against women is done by men. A man who commits violence thinks that women are his property but people are not anyone's property".
“We cannot go from the virus pandemic to the wage pandemic, we need the recovery to reverse the trend and there to be a wage redistribution”. Landini stressed the need to launch a tax reform that on the one hand is capable of “fighting tax evasion, because it is worth 120 billion, and the number alone is enough to understand that it must be the objective of a no-holds-barred fight”. And on the other “it must have a clear effect, that people understand, it must increase the net salary and pensions”. “We also need – he added – a serious reform of social safety nets”. The secretary stressed that the PNRR is “a great opportunity not to be wasted for a different future, to give hope to young people, women, the country, the South. We have – he continued – an unprecedented amount of European resources in the history of our country. The problem is not how they are used but that they are used well. We must create safe and stable work. While we are here another person has died at work, a massacre that continues. Here the problem is prevention, health and safety in the workplace must become a constraint and not a cost".
It was also a square where politics was discussed today. Where political adhesions also offered a suggestion of the new center-left that could arise from these weeks, agitated not only by anti-vax protests and violence from neo-fascist fringes but also by the administrative elections. A new Olive Tree is the project that Letta is working on for the post-Draghi era. But today we went beyond parties and movements, in an attempt at unity and fluid pacification around major issues such as anti-fascism, work, rights. In one word: democracy. A nice sign in a square that experienced the crowded funeral of Enrico Berlinguer in 1984 and that today has returned to talk about rights, democracy, work and people. As has not happened for a long time.
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