Appeal of basic and conflictual trade unionism
4 December No Draghi Day - National day of protest
Against the economic measures of the Draghi government
Against layoffs, privatizations, relocations and high cost of living
Regional parades in the main cities
Freedom to demonstrate is a non-negotiable democratic right
The Budget Law produced by the Draghi government confirms the new and heavy attack on the living conditions of the weakest social sectors in the country while allocating additional resources for large companies and financial revenues.
The political line of increasing inequalities is confirmed, rather than reversing course.
The increases in the prices of raw materials and energy cause an increase in bills and the high cost of living which affect workers with wages blocked by non-renewed contracts and even worse the poorest strata of the population, such as pensioners at a minimum or earners. Basic income.
Regarding pensions, the infamous Fornero system remains, therefore an increase in the retirement age, even if to soften a quota of 102 for next year, always far below expectations also to guarantee a necessary generational change.
On the Citizenship Income, measures are introduced to restrict the audience and to force the recipients to accept any job: part-time, fixed-term and long distance from residence. On the tax side, the abolition of the IRAP, that is the only unavoidable tax for companies, is announced, while the reductions for workers will be directed towards medium-high incomes (between 28 and 55 thousand euros).
In a phase in which the total release of layoffs is now operational, deaths at work are growing and the very heavy effects of the pandemic crisis are still visible, the economic maneuver concentrates resources on large companies, exactly with the same logic with which it was elaborated. the PNRR, and the dramatic problem of reducing very strong social inequalities through the redistribution of income does not arise.
Public investments in key sectors of social life, such as health, school and urban transport, are almost non-existent, which are also essential to combat, in addition to the necessary vaccines, the spread of the pandemic. There are and are no interventions to raise wages in a country where poor work is growing rapidly. The very dangerous project of differentiated autonomy is also resurrected, destined to increase territorial and social differences. And once again there are no interventions on the dramatic housing issue to increase the supply of social housing, nor are there any answers to the tragedy of evictions.
To complete Draghi's plan there is instead the government's draft law on competition which prepares a wild privatization of everything that still remains of the public in our country: from local transport to energy, from water to environmental hygiene, from ports to the liberalization of taxis and a major revival of private healthcare. It is the definitive liberalist opening to the iron law of the market, in contempt of any concern for social rights, the safeguarding of common goods, rebalancing and social justice. A confirmation of the empty government rhetoric regarding environmental protection and the fight against climate change since putting the common goods, starting with water and energy resources,in the hands of large private companies it can only encourage new environmental disasters and further lower the health and safety safeguards for workers and citizens.
With the budget law and the draft law on competition Draghi is carrying out the diktats of the European Union and satisfying all the requests of Confindustria, without encountering any real opposition on the political level and with the complicit silence of CGIL, CISL, UIL.
Strengthened by the support it has from the entire parliamentary arc, this government is marching compactly in the direction of reducing the rights of the working class, using the repressive techniques of the Salvini decree and providing cover for the illegal actions by the employers when it uses paid squads to beat up workers on strike.
The successful general strike of 11 October, promoted by all the conflicting and grassroots trade unionism, with its platform of struggle, precisely identified the issues on which to continue the mobilization. No to layoffs and privatizations. Fight for wages and guaranteed income. Cancellation of the Fornero Law, contrast to the high cost of living and the diktats of the European Union. Contract renewals and fight against precariousness for full employment. Strong investments in school, health, transport and public welfare, against military expenses and missions abroad, in favor of a necessary social expenditure. For a fair tax that attacks income and reduces social inequalities. The program of struggle of 11 October is today strengthened by the new measures presented by Draghi,which confirm the strongly anti-popular address.
It is therefore urgent to build a vast popular movement that contrasts with the mobilization and struggle of this authoritarian plan destined to deepen inequalities and increase poverty.
The grassroots trade unionism proposes and undertakes to build a national protest day for next December 4th called “No Draghi Day” and therefore invites all movements and social and political realities to build mobilization in a unified and shared form.
The day will be characterized by regional parades that will have the aim of defending the freedom to demonstrate against any hateful ban on parading under the buildings of the institutions.
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