Landini: 'Let's turn the country inside out'. In Turin clashes between police and antagonists, blocking the tracks
Thus the CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini, on the sidelines of the procession for the general strike in Bologna
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Key points
- "More than half a million people in Italy in the streets"
- "We want to turn the country inside out"
- "Stop redundancies like with Covid"
- Strike in Bologna, thousands at the Cgil and Uil parade
- Cgil-Uil parade in Rome, Schlein and D'Alema also parade
- Bombers, Salvini insults democratic square
- Clashes between police forces and antagonists in Turin
4' min read
"It seems clear to me that there has been an explicit attempt to call this right into question. Among other things, a decree is being discussed in Parliament, which is called the security decree, and we are calling for it to be withdrawn, which wants to make it a crime to strike, to block roads, to occupy factories when they close. It is clear that we are facing a serious attempt at an authoritarian turn that calls into question the freedom to exist and the freedom of people". This is how CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini, on the sidelines of the procession for the general strike in Bologna, responded to a question on the right to strike.
"Over half a million people in Italy in the streets"
.'If we put together the numbers of all those who decided to take to the streets today, we can safely say that more than 500,000 people throughout Italy chose to be in the streets to defend freedom and the rights of all,' said the CGIL secretary, speaking from the stage in Bologna.
"We want to turn the country inside out"
.'We want to turn this country inside out,' continued the CGIL leader, 'and to do that we need the participation of all people. Social revolt, for us, means precisely saying that each one of us must not turn away in the face of injustice, on the contrary, the idea must pass that my problem is everyone's problem and that only by coming together can we change this situation. This is a day of mobilisation the likes of which we have not seen in a long time. Today begins a path of mobilisation to turn this country inside out.
"Stop redundancies as with Covid"
."We are ready to mobilise to prevent redundancies and factory closures. We demand the reinstatement of the redundancy freeze as it was for the Covid period,' Landini continued. "We continue to move forward, starting with the renewal of contracts also in the civil service. We demand that Parliament, which still has to debate and vote on the manoeuvre, produce radical changes,' he added. 'As far as we are concerned we will also continue in the coming weeks demanding the withdrawal of the security decree and changing the government's staid policies. From a certain point of view the fight for the renewal of contracts is not a one-sided battle, it concerns private as well as public workers."
Strike in Bologna, thousands at the CGIL and UIL parade
Several thousand people, with flags, whistles and banners, marched from Porta Lame towards the centre of Bologna, in the direction of Piazza Maggiore, in the CGIL and UIL demonstration for the general strike. The procession was attended by CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini and the newly elected president of Emilia-Romagna, Michele de Pascale. Many demonstrators wear red waistcoats with the words 'it is time for social revolt'.
