what happened to DID THE CRISIS?
Despite the reassuring claims of Berlusconi and European governments, the effects of economic crisis are amplified by the day. Eurostat, the European statistics office, announced that the unemployment rate has reached 8, 6%, compared to 8, 4% in March, compared to April 2008 There are over 3 million more unemployed marking the highest unemployment rate since 1999. In absolute value, then, in April, 14.6 million people were unemployed in the euro area and 20.8 million in the European Union. Compared to March, the number of jobless rose by 556,000 units to 396,000 in the EU27 and the euro zone. Compared to the same month last year, the unemployed are increased by 4.653 million in the EU-27 and 3.100000000 in the euro area.
Among the Member States, the highest rates are recorded in Spain (18.1%), Latvia (17.4%) and Lithuania (16.8%), the lowest were found in the Netherlands (3.0 %) and Austria (4.2%). In April 2009, the unemployment rate for young people under 25 years was 18.5% in the euro area and 18.7% in the EU27. A year ago it was 14.7% in both areas, then increases of 4% rate of youth unemployment. Even the ISTAT figures on employment in the major Italian companies do not leave any hope: in March this year the employment and 'decreased by 1, 2% over March 2008.
addition, net of the cig, and the reduction in employment 'was 3.4%, worst since January 2001 and still in March, the hours of redundancy used by large companies were 35.3 per thousand hours worked, that is +370.7% compared to say the same month in 2008.
Istat in recent days has spread his now customary annual report on the situation of the country and among the many disturbing statistics that most concerned the so-called risk of economic vulnerability, being unable to cope with unforeseen costs also minor, this group includes the 20% of the Italian population, but clearly also weigh the regional differences: in the north where people are at risk on average 9% in the south to get to 30-35%. On the income so the situation is on the verge of dramatic: the percentage of low-income population in the country stood at 18.4% but the incidence is highest in the South and especially in Sicily (41.2%), Campania (36.8%) and Calabria (36.4%).
The average disposable income (with all that implies in this case, use average data) in the north is about 20 thousand euro, while in the south down to starvation levels, around 13 thousand euro. Unemployment continues to grow for the first time since 1995, in fact, growth in employment in 2008 was lower than that of unemployed rose by 186 000 units more than the year before. The data also confirm, even if it were needed, that grow in recent years employment has not been defined standard work (indefinitely) but so-called atypical jobs and this has meant that the employment data of the last twenty years have been completely distorted. Istat himself says that "if the contraction of temporary work recorded at year-end were to continue, we'll be looking at a wide audience of individuals exposed to a condition of vulnerability." But the new unemployment figures and affects all social strata. One aspect to be reckoned with is the decline of the "employment rate of fathers" that passes from 83, 3% in 2007 and '82, 7% in 2008. This figure is therefore in line with the identikit of the "New unemployed", according to ISTAT is a man between 35 and 54 years, with title study below degree and in most cases have lost their jobs in industry and it is a family man. The data are broadly in line with Tuscan domestic and European. Forecasts IRPET, Regional Institute for Economic Planning, are clear: a loss of over 40 thousand jobs in 2009, of 9800 employees in 2010 and 8900 for the following year. Also, layoffs in the first quarter reached a total of 4 million hours, an increase over the same period in 2008 of 404.2% on the front of the IGC and 101.8% for ordinary and extraordinary. Compared to the same period in 2008, in the first three months of the inscriptions lists of mobility increased from 4031 to 8130, ie an increase of approximately 100%. Moreover, in the first quarter of 2009, employment centers reported more than 36 000 Tuscan recruitment compared to the first three months of 2008. The Observatory has found that only in March, the layoffs and 'increased by 85%. Percentage due to an increase of 54% ordinary and the extraordinary growth of 183%, increases were recorded in all major strategic economic sectors. Also in March, and 'peak was recorded in the decrease in labor demand (-22%).
Despite these alarming figures the campaign, national and local level, seem interested in other topics, with more than sensationalistic nature moralizing appeals from indiscriminately from a deployment and the other as if to defend a political virginity now lost for years. To end this tragic situation, the Democratic Party and part of the so-called radical left to speculate and recipes that, at best, vaguely resembling a neo-Keynesian solution. We believe instead that there are no alternatives within the system, these solutions, as able to limit the damage (and anyway this is shown) are not able to overcome the crisis.
Then, in the face of this crisis is now essential to a variety of intermediate targets - what we call logic transition objectives - to address the immediate emergency and while working on an alternative society. In this regard we believe it is necessary to:
- a general case for the defense of jobs, wages, pensions, social services and democratic guarantees with raising the minimum wage to 1300 €, the social wage and the minimum pension to € 1000, the reduction of working time at the same wage, the abolition of Law 30, the reintroduction of the escalator, the right to housing.
- To the question "who pays?" Our answer is clear: pay the person causing the crisis, namely banks, enterprises, big business. Therefore, we propose the introduction of a wealth tax, taxation on financial income, the elimination of state aid to companies (such as the tax wedge). We also propose a massive redistribution of income from capital to labor and a real plan and specific rights and powers for the worker and female employees.
- The nationalization of banks and enterprises is also essential to a measure already adopted by the capitalists themselves and almost all governments. But we wonder: what kind of nationalization? We want a real nationalization put in place for all those enterprises that do not guarantee the work and wages, made under control workers' and popular, with the aim not to protect profits but to raise the living standards of the masses.
In this sense, the nationalization of the country's nerve centers of production can not be dissociated from a plan to develop environmentally sound and democratically determined. In that regard, the States-General of labor and the environment could be a first step to define a collective level, democratic and socially oriented.
- A massive government intervention, which is a possible answer to the crisis, which may not be in full compliance with very strict environmental compatibility. You do not need the TAV or nuclear energy, but renewable energy and a plan of readjustment hydro-geological land, but do not serve the LNG terminals environmental regeneration of brownfield sites, incinerators, but not recycling. - A drastic reduction in military spending, with the immediate withdrawal of troops from all fronts of civil war and the conversion of the defense industry.
Despite the reassuring claims of Berlusconi and European governments, the effects of economic crisis are amplified by the day. Eurostat, the European statistics office, announced that the unemployment rate has reached 8, 6%, compared to 8, 4% in March, compared to April 2008 There are over 3 million more unemployed marking the highest unemployment rate since 1999. In absolute value, then, in April, 14.6 million people were unemployed in the euro area and 20.8 million in the European Union. Compared to March, the number of jobless rose by 556,000 units to 396,000 in the EU27 and the euro zone. Compared to the same month last year, the unemployed are increased by 4.653 million in the EU-27 and 3.100000000 in the euro area.
Among the Member States, the highest rates are recorded in Spain (18.1%), Latvia (17.4%) and Lithuania (16.8%), the lowest were found in the Netherlands (3.0 %) and Austria (4.2%). In April 2009, the unemployment rate for young people under 25 years was 18.5% in the euro area and 18.7% in the EU27. A year ago it was 14.7% in both areas, then increases of 4% rate of youth unemployment. Even the ISTAT figures on employment in the major Italian companies do not leave any hope: in March this year the employment and 'decreased by 1, 2% over March 2008.
addition, net of the cig, and the reduction in employment 'was 3.4%, worst since January 2001 and still in March, the hours of redundancy used by large companies were 35.3 per thousand hours worked, that is +370.7% compared to say the same month in 2008.
Istat in recent days has spread his now customary annual report on the situation of the country and among the many disturbing statistics that most concerned the so-called risk of economic vulnerability, being unable to cope with unforeseen costs also minor, this group includes the 20% of the Italian population, but clearly also weigh the regional differences: in the north where people are at risk on average 9% in the south to get to 30-35%. On the income so the situation is on the verge of dramatic: the percentage of low-income population in the country stood at 18.4% but the incidence is highest in the South and especially in Sicily (41.2%), Campania (36.8%) and Calabria (36.4%).
The average disposable income (with all that implies in this case, use average data) in the north is about 20 thousand euro, while in the south down to starvation levels, around 13 thousand euro. Unemployment continues to grow for the first time since 1995, in fact, growth in employment in 2008 was lower than that of unemployed rose by 186 000 units more than the year before. The data also confirm, even if it were needed, that grow in recent years employment has not been defined standard work (indefinitely) but so-called atypical jobs and this has meant that the employment data of the last twenty years have been completely distorted. Istat himself says that "if the contraction of temporary work recorded at year-end were to continue, we'll be looking at a wide audience of individuals exposed to a condition of vulnerability." But the new unemployment figures and affects all social strata. One aspect to be reckoned with is the decline of the "employment rate of fathers" that passes from 83, 3% in 2007 and '82, 7% in 2008. This figure is therefore in line with the identikit of the "New unemployed", according to ISTAT is a man between 35 and 54 years, with title study below degree and in most cases have lost their jobs in industry and it is a family man. The data are broadly in line with Tuscan domestic and European. Forecasts IRPET, Regional Institute for Economic Planning, are clear: a loss of over 40 thousand jobs in 2009, of 9800 employees in 2010 and 8900 for the following year. Also, layoffs in the first quarter reached a total of 4 million hours, an increase over the same period in 2008 of 404.2% on the front of the IGC and 101.8% for ordinary and extraordinary. Compared to the same period in 2008, in the first three months of the inscriptions lists of mobility increased from 4031 to 8130, ie an increase of approximately 100%. Moreover, in the first quarter of 2009, employment centers reported more than 36 000 Tuscan recruitment compared to the first three months of 2008. The Observatory has found that only in March, the layoffs and 'increased by 85%. Percentage due to an increase of 54% ordinary and the extraordinary growth of 183%, increases were recorded in all major strategic economic sectors. Also in March, and 'peak was recorded in the decrease in labor demand (-22%).
Despite these alarming figures the campaign, national and local level, seem interested in other topics, with more than sensationalistic nature moralizing appeals from indiscriminately from a deployment and the other as if to defend a political virginity now lost for years. To end this tragic situation, the Democratic Party and part of the so-called radical left to speculate and recipes that, at best, vaguely resembling a neo-Keynesian solution. We believe instead that there are no alternatives within the system, these solutions, as able to limit the damage (and anyway this is shown) are not able to overcome the crisis.
Then, in the face of this crisis is now essential to a variety of intermediate targets - what we call logic transition objectives - to address the immediate emergency and while working on an alternative society. In this regard we believe it is necessary to:
- a general case for the defense of jobs, wages, pensions, social services and democratic guarantees with raising the minimum wage to 1300 €, the social wage and the minimum pension to € 1000, the reduction of working time at the same wage, the abolition of Law 30, the reintroduction of the escalator, the right to housing.
- To the question "who pays?" Our answer is clear: pay the person causing the crisis, namely banks, enterprises, big business. Therefore, we propose the introduction of a wealth tax, taxation on financial income, the elimination of state aid to companies (such as the tax wedge). We also propose a massive redistribution of income from capital to labor and a real plan and specific rights and powers for the worker and female employees.
- The nationalization of banks and enterprises is also essential to a measure already adopted by the capitalists themselves and almost all governments. But we wonder: what kind of nationalization? We want a real nationalization put in place for all those enterprises that do not guarantee the work and wages, made under control workers' and popular, with the aim not to protect profits but to raise the living standards of the masses.
In this sense, the nationalization of the country's nerve centers of production can not be dissociated from a plan to develop environmentally sound and democratically determined. In that regard, the States-General of labor and the environment could be a first step to define a collective level, democratic and socially oriented.
- A massive government intervention, which is a possible answer to the crisis, which may not be in full compliance with very strict environmental compatibility. You do not need the TAV or nuclear energy, but renewable energy and a plan of readjustment hydro-geological land, but do not serve the LNG terminals environmental regeneration of brownfield sites, incinerators, but not recycling. - A drastic reduction in military spending, with the immediate withdrawal of troops from all fronts of civil war and the conversion of the defense industry.
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