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After the big parade on Oct. 16: Building a general strike from below

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the end succumbed to the pressure of the square, those workers and students that a few meters from him shouted "general strike" for the duration of his speech. And was forced to say "do it" without specifying how or when. In reality it is difficult to change the line that the CGIL held so far, less than a general change in the policy framework. The compass will remain that of the "social pact" with Confindustria, which will meet again on October 21, and a possible re-stitching with CISL and UIL hypothesis that the PD will work especially as evidenced by the interview with Republic of Bersani.
CGIL will obviously be affected of the event on Saturday 16, too large and the overall impact of the increased prestige of Fiom to pretend that everything is as before. Probably there will be enticements in the leadership of Corso Trieste until the day before but kept at a safe distance carriers do not seem to see a change of course. Especially in the real country, in factories and in the climate of resignation that we breathe. If the event Fiom change this climate as we shall see in the coming weeks.
The basic problem is that the hypothesis of concerted CGIL is suspended and is still dependent on the movements of politics. And politics today said Casini will not make any alliance with a Democratic Party that must mediate between the Fiom and all the rest. The hypothesis of an alliance between the new Olive Tree and the UDC also involves mending between CGIL and CISL, and this view is still open even though everything makes it increasingly difficult.
Obviously the event on Saturday is the main obstacle for obvious reasons. In the square is reviewed once again the country linked to the history and the reasons for the next class, which believes that the "owners" still exist, he believes in the Constitution, at work, in an attempt at social transformation. Landini's speech represented the plastic in its various shades. E 'in this country who opposed the 1992 consultation, which has protested against the reforms of pensions, the right and left, took part in the day Genoa defended Article 18 has given force to the Fiom and for nearly twenty years Rifondazione. It 's a great piece on Saturday has again showed. Of course, this time above all "restricted" to Fiom with a little 'of people around, particularly students. A few years ago was a larger population, but shows still to be there. And this "base" is not suitable to reassemble the CGIL.
What will make this subject, as it can go on a Saturday afternoon event to a movement more than the bottom? The answers are obvious and difficult at the same time. It 'clear that the dynamics of the general strike is decisive as important is the ability to define locations for unit to stabilize and rebuild the alliance between the various reports that are still consumed. But you can not just conjure up slogans and abstract references. The general strike work if it blocks the country, the trend is not unexpected and keeping a perspective of a fund, organization and conviction of the struggles, in short, a true dynamic motion. What, meanwhile, needs to find himself featured slogans, mobilizing and unifying goal: the reduction of working time, the social income, the minimum wage, the attack on income and profits, a radical discourse on the debt.
Sunday, the University of Rome, the sign "United against the crisis" has done very participatory meeting place in which this node. The meeting was primarily an initiative of the composite area that refers to social centers - Action from the northeast of Rome, so to speak - to relaunch itself with an imaginary and a proposal for moving the stage but with adequate mechanisms and dynamics already seen in action over and over again. It was in any case a positive initiative because it speaks the language of unity among different subjects against the crisis and proposes to rebuild a "sense of movement." Welcome move, but not enough. The difference, in fact, make the local realities. Really we can rebuild a single center between reality and the factory area and between them and other social subjects, such as students? It will commit the Fiom in this direction, as he announced more than once? The sign "united against the crisis" will be unified or is it really a "logo" area as we have seen on other occasions?
The answers are on the stage that appears in these questions. On 16 October it opened, once again, a window of opportunity that has nothing to do with political representation, because if we discuss it at that level is divided into ten minutes - Vendola wants to ally with Bersani, Ferrero also, however, a bit 'less, no other thing on their minds, Bersani is with casinos, etc.. The question is whether you will develop a draft movement centered on the "unity and radicalism" that a lot of luck had in the years 2001-2003. If they are roses bloom.

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