Friday 17 October, I participated in Rome in the general strike called by Cobas, Cub , Sdl against Gelmini decree and the precariousness of Italian society. E 'was a great event, was a procession of about three hundred thousand people who defied a bad time at first and then an insidious drizzle. When the head of the procession arrived at St. John, the tail was just left by the fourth term. The protesters came from all provinces of Italy and did not belong only to schools but workers were made redundant or cassintegrati, public sector employees and healthcare, long-term unemployed, temporary workers, students with no hope and no future, and even representatives of Alitalia, haughty in their beautiful uniforms. There were children who were moving the roundabouts in the rain, stick together in their umbrellas, not dragged under as the newspapers have said the scheme, but in the wake of their parents, their families. And here and there waving, yes, plenty of red flags with hammer and sickle symbol, and waving the banners of the anarchists, polite and composed as bearded brothers.
Adults advancing step by step, a bit 'sad but determined. There was a beautiful old tall, with long hair and all white, dignified and elegant as an old poet of ancient times. There were the curious passers-by who stopped to watch and then joined the procession. There were young mothers pulling their puppet careless wheelchairs, wound nell'incerata, there were other children without mothers or grandmothers who had stuck to his chest in protest slogans as "An ignorant people is easy to govern," "The future of children does not rhyme with Gelmini, which exhibited almost furtively, there were those who followed a bicycle under a waterproof covering, there were doctors and nurses of Public Health, with their gowns white, preceded by an ambulance harnessed banners. And there were those like me who were running here and there to take photographs or make video recordings. There was a wall of policemen to the tail of the procession, and plainclothes patrols that guarded all roads leading to the parade. I did not see no provocation, no agitator, no crazy or infiltrate. I just came across a block of fifty, all clean-shaven and dressed in black like a Nazi skinheads, who praised a bitter regret that the good old days of reckless Stalin and Mao . Young
they had queued in the parade, next to patrols of the police, because you know they are more intemperate. Yet it seemed participating in the parade with a commendable seriousness and discipline, even among makeshift gag carnival and incessant speeches, that use the speakers, with proclamations to resist, to counter the unfortunate irreducibly Gelmini reform. At the crossroads between Via and Via Labicana Merulana wing of these young people moved away, and, as we learned later, unexpectedly changed course and came to Trastevere, in the building of the Ministry of Education, where he improvised a sit- in protest.
What became apparent to me in this event was the presence of women, perhaps more than male. Whole banners were carried by girls between the ages of sixteen and twenty- years, not at all dark or with that spirited revolutionaries. Other young girls were leading their own groups or mitered with megaphones, calling for a mobilization and a permanent occupation of the high schools and universities. They look like good girls who wake up from the spell of Mediaset and finally understand that the ruling classes have cheated the future.
Meanwhile, around noon the rain had stopped and the sky opened up strips of blue. On the small stage at St. John's began to alternate school representatives, youth, trade unions. But few were listening to them carefully. It was not important to hear things you already know, but there, give a strong signal to the government con la presenza fisica ed una pacifica e numerosa protesta. Per questo motivo il prossimo 30 ottobre nessuno si deve tirare indietro. Lo sciopero, l’occupazione delle piazze è l’unica arma che ci è rimasta per poter fermare legalmente le devastazioni governative . Solo un popolo succube e ignorante può accettare la trasformazione della scuola pubblica in una associazione privatistica, con conseguente riduzione di 200.000 posti di lavoro e il taglio di 8 miliardi di euro per poterli donare ai prìncipi del sistema bancario truffaldino, ai bancarottieri di professione dell’Alitalia e di altri enti pubblici, ai manigoldi manager e consulenti professionali. Molte persone pensano – e non hanno tutti i wrong - that the strike only serves to demonstrate the confederal unions to exist, then caring about the poor. But it is also true that a low percentage of strikers can justify the Berlusconi government to pursue relentlessly. Equally true that a defeat of the confederal unions in this contest will make them increasingly vulnerable, and not in the eyes of the various social classes. Ultimately if the government were to come out winning from these demonstrations, it will be impossible to stop and make a reversible regime contend that the primacy of the fascist dictatorship of the most ferocious. (Image Gualdo Anselmi)
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