National Demonstration Agains Repression For Strikes- Modena, Italy
More than a thousand participants from various parts of Italy took part in the first post-lockdown trade union demonstration in Modena, the one called by 'Si Cobas' to protest against the 480 criminal proceedings that have been opened in Modena against workers, trade unionists and supporters of strikes in the Modena area in recent months. In addition, there have been street signs, oral warnings, raids on political party and trade union offices, illegal arrests, complaints, seizures of material and police violence.
On 3 October in the square in Modena, all protesters from different parts of Italy wore masks and respected social distancing. There was a massive deployment of police forces throughout the historic centre, but there were no particular moments of tension.
The strike was a strong revival of the practice of strike and picketing. The day began in the morning with an unannounced garrison in front of Italpizza, a symbolic dispute, and continued in the afternoon with a crowded square where numerous interventions by trade union delegates and social realities followed one another. Many interventions traced a line of continuity with what is also happening in Val di Susa (No Tav). Last week, the Turin police raided the homes of two comrades of Fr P. Carc: Andrea Gozzi and Alessandro Della Malva, involved in the NO TAV movement, with the pretext of "searching for weapons and explosives", searched the homes of the two comrades and seized (arbitrarily and unjustifiably) political material, digital media and their computers. Following the search, the comrades were taken to the Police Headquarters and detained here for several hours under the pretext of being notified of the inspection reports and denounced for "threats".
The speeches held in Modena highlighted how the demonstration was not simply an initiative of solidarity on individuals, however serious, repressive episodes, but was part of a unified and general struggle that started from the contrast to the capitalist use of the Covid emergency.
The number of criminal proceedings for strikes in the Modena area has reached a figure unparalleled in Italy, which clearly shows the will to stop the workers' struggles in a region where institutions, criminality and business are so intertwined as to seem indistinguishable. It is clear that in Modena there is a general rehearsal for a repression that will then be replicated in the rest of the country. We cannot allow this.
There is still a lot to fight, but the mass participation in the initiatives of the last few weeks makes us hope that the conditions exist to open a new page in the history of the proletarian movement in Italy.
V.D.
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