“But why don’t you take care of our problems not Palestine?“. This was one of the most widespread controversies during the extraordinary popular mobilization which, from September 22 to October 3-4, led millions of people to go on strike and take to the streets. This was clearly a false and instrumental controversy, but now it has a direct answer.
That November 28 The general strike launched by grassroots trade unions is for the sake of the freedom and lives of Palestinians, who are still the target of Israeli violence, and against rampant social injustice in the country. On November 28th the strike will be social and political, against the Meloni government because they are the main agents of the government. Netanyahu and was first in the implementation of European austerity and NATO rearmament policies.
The controversy between the government and the field is extensive on each point financial lawrisk covering the whole approach as negative and unfair.
As it reminds us Giancarlo Giorgettiministers from a party that for years has ostensibly opposed EU austerity, Italy has joined a new stability pact and must adhere to it strictly. This means that our country must return to the so-called “primary assets” of the public budget, to keep the deficit below the notorious deficit. 3%. This means that the State will receive less profit in the form of public services, salaries and social benefits than it receives in the form of taxes. But why will the deficit persist? This is because balance sheet assets will be used to pay debt interest. Cuts to pensions, schools, health care, lower wages and more profits for banks. This is the substance of the policy savings, which does not serve to reduce public debt, but to increase the weight and income of the financial system in the economy as a whole.
Since 2011 Monti governmentwhere Meloni was his successor, decided on the most brutal budget austerity, the State has cut and saved almost 1000 billion in public spendingwith which he pays the interest on his debts. However, the debt, which has not decreased by a penny, has actually increased drastically. This was the original usurious mechanism imposed by European austerity. The Italian state is like a victim of loan sharks who have to sell their assets to pay debt bills which are always increasing. And there tie This increasingly burdens the majority of the population, who are subjected to increasingly heavy sacrifices in return for debt reduction that never happened.
Melons and Salvini, from opponents of European ties, they have now become obedient executors annoying: currently the reward for a tight budget is increased war spending. In fact, new European regulations allow this “virtuous” countries. which reduces the budget deficit, to separate investments into it weapon.
Missiles, bombs, and cannons don’t create deficits, and neither do health care, schools, and pension funds. A public deficit of 3% must be respected in order to spend it 5% for NATO. A few years ago, anyone who denounced the risks of achieving this would have been labeled a crazy extremist, but this is the reality today. These horrors in Italy form the basis of right-wing government budgets, but in the European Union they are approved by a supportive centre-left majority Ursula von der Leyen.
Giorgia Meloni’s financial law was the first financial law Euro-Atlantic War.
The breakdown of public services and the welfare state, the collapse of purchasing power relative to wages, mass emigration that now exceeds immigration, are the picture of a country that has been devastated for decades by austerity policies, now compounded by the economic costs of war.
In the end it is true that Meloni’s government is not the only one responsible for this disasterso did all previous governments, the business class, finance, the European Union, and NATO. However, it is true that the current Meloni administration is guilty of continuing and worsening the policies of the past. That tip distributed here and there will not change its substance: we will become poorer and we will pay more taxes for rearmament. And all this will continue until the policies of austerity and war are completely canceled.
The general strike of November 28 was a continuation of that call “let’s block everything” the dock workers in Genoa and with the struggle that shook the country. Because we must continue with the same spirit and the same determination; for Palestine, and against war, for public health and for 2000 euros minimum wage per month. Because everyone is under arrest.
