SI AMO THE ONLY POINT OF REFERENCE TO THE LEFT For Unaltracittà ' mon, enters quarters
"no agreements on the ballot, enough of the old politics."
"It 's been left to us the burden and the honor of representing the city in a landmark on the left truly alternative to the policies of the Democratic Party." And 'this is the comment by Ornella De Zordo aftermath of the vote in local elections. "Consistent with what was announced - De Zordo added - on the ballot will not do that any agreement with the most likely winner Renzi, nor give instructions to vote for him: the politics of alternative PD are both in content and methods. Noto instead Spini with his statements confirmed what was already clear from the start: her candidacy was not an alternative to Renzi, but targeted to negotiate with him, according to the patterns of old politics. I wonder if those who have turned around he was fully aware. "Our results - said De Zordo - it's really important: without subsidies, without structure, against opponents who have spent hundreds of thousands of Euros for the campaign, we still able to penetrate into the fabric of the city, literally doubling the votes received in 2004, returning to the City Council and entering for the first time in some District Councils' "." Ours is a long-term project - said De Zordo - which aims to rebuild a new political culture from the bottom left, outside the norms dictated by the secretariats of the parties and the powers that be. We moved in a difficult environment that sees in Italy and throughout Europe a major crisis for the traditional left-wing parties, although not right in Florence is certainly fertile ground. "" We like to insist on - said De Zordo - the extraordinary results from some lists of people connected to our project in the province of Florence. Our aim is to further strengthen the network of free voices, on the one hand to monitor the political management of local authorities, and other work from the bottom to the construction of a new political practice. " READ THE DOCUMENT SUPPORT LEFT CRITICAL RESULTS IN FLORENCE
BERLUSCONI TO STAY POLE BUT OPPOSITION IS NOT 'CREDIBLE. LEFT FOR A CYCLE AND 'CLOSED
Vittoria Di Pietro and left the League and out of Parliament. The right wins in Europe because the left is unsuitable for the role, even in Italy. Now serves a true reconstruction, from the bottom and long perspective.
The counting of votes is almost finished - at 11 am There are seats that are missing, it only happens in Italy - and the political framework of the European elections seems outlined. Berlusconi misfires and does not penetrate, the League has xenophobic wave that winds in Europe, the Democratic Party has a hard shot but not enough to push him into a vortex of crisis, Di Pietro benefits of this shot and left ex-Rainbow, ex of Government, the former disappears from all institutions. A picture is not uniform then that will certainly investigate and collectively, but that, within the limits of a newspaper article like this, says a few things. Mr Berlusconi does not penetrate into the country, carrying away the failure to penalize the 3 million votes than policies. His government is not persuasive, not drag a block that is apparently only in heavy training and living contradictions. If anything, the league awards even if the jump is mainly the result of the decrease in percentage of votes in absolute terms Bossi and his preserved intact - and it is a success - their 3.1 million votes. Who is the real leap is Peter from about 1.5 million votes in 2008 goes to 2.45, making it the real winner of this round Casini while maintaining a stable package of about 2 million votes mostly in the South and Sicily . Left closes - as we have repeatedly pointed out - definitely a cycle, the re-establishment of communism. Both lists Communists and the Left and Liberty will be granted, plenty of the quorum, even if set up almost two million that is over 500 thousand votes more than the sum of Rainbow, and Socialist policies of the last year and Pcl of iron, with its list keeps the substance of their votes reference. In fact, as a whole, one vote left it started and if we place in this cauldron, the type of election and election campaign, the result of the Radicals, we have an area of \u200b\u200b10%. But it is ineffective and a left that does not deal with the main problem. Mr Berlusconi is not convincing and does not penetrate but will continue to rule because he has faced opposition fake, a Pd accomplice and left not credible. Moreover, it is the sign of the general elections across Europe: the right holds because the "left" is unfit for his role and is disrupted while the far right gathers strength - disturbing results in Austria, Hungary, Great Britain, the Netherlands, but also Italy. For its part, the extreme left, when it is consistent or when preserved its ramparts, obtained important results, as 10.7% in Portugal to Bloch and 5% in France to the NPA or the results of the block as "communist" with 10.6% for the Portuguese Pc, 8, 3 for the greek, 7.6% for Die Linke and 6.3% for the French alliance between the PCF and escaped from the Ps (that quiver to fit, having the crisis Vertical socialists). best comment on these overall results that, at first glance, drawing a Europe that no one likes - the highest rate of desertion in time - when that vote right and vote in a waiting left worthy of the name. For Italy, this is the last episode of a long defeat calls into question a large group manager (at this point to step aside would be very decent) and which poses serious about playing a political and social reconstruction . Before social policy. The construction of a new project, a new path, a new political entity. And 'the debate that we will face in the coming months.
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.
leftmost there is no crisis Polls: growing far-left Social Democrats at the stake. Greeks and Germans pull the sprint. And Italy?
production to a minimum and skyrocketing unemployment, occupation of factories and the seizure of leaders, mass demonstrations. It is a time of crisis and crisis, so much economic as that of social democratic parties, put a little 'sparkle to the formations of the far left. Make them grow in the polls, as far as possible. Predictions indicate that the Gue, the United Left group that includes Scandinavian Communist parties and environmentalists, will strengthen the vote of 4-7 June, while facing a decline in European seats that will go from 785 to 736 as it wants the Treaty of Nice. According Predict09, a projection over the election results produced by the London School of Economics and Trinity College Dublin, Gue will increase from 41 to 44 MEPs. The success does not smile at all but equally on the continent. Pull the sprint are French, Dutch, Germans, Greeks and Portuguese, others trudging. And the Italian left, divided and disadvantaged by the new electoral law, but also that traditionally plays an important role in Strasbourg, is a true unknown. "The radical left - says Yves Meny, President of the European University Institute in Florence - is historically strong in France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, the countries of old radical tradition of struggle, with components including anarchist. These forms of protest are unknown in Britain and Scandinavia. " Not to mention the Eastern European countries, where the extreme left almost there, still pays the accounts of the past. "The vote for the extreme left - insists Mény - is also the son of the crisis of social democratic parties, which failed to meet the challenges of the last 20 years and that even where assumed to reconcile modernity and socialism, as the case of New Labour of Tony Blair, they have failed, ending in a crisis very black. " "The European left has never been so low since the Second World War," sums up the columns of Liberation Mario Telo, President of the European Institute of the ULB, Free University of Brussels. An item is not ideological, but physiological and not indicative of this crisis is the identity card of the voters of social democracy in Europe is the continent's oldest voters, a clear sign of socialism as I struggle to enter the hearts of young people, between the most exposed to the winds of crisis and insecurity. And a good chunk of these young people, therefore, moves to extremes, increasing the far left. Not only that, even the far right shows you more than ever present in the areas once a stronghold of social democracy and even before the communist parties. Polls indicate indeed a strong growth of the formations of neo-fascist and racist and xenophobic than in Britain, Romania, Slovakia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. A vote above the proletariat. Returning to the left, the success of radicalism has faces, languages \u200b\u200band new ways, from France. The NPA, the new anti-capitalist party of Olivier Besancenot, launched last February as the overcoming of the Ligue Communist Révolutionnaire. Besancenot, a spokesman for the NPA, has 35 years, continues to work as a postman in borghesissima Neuilly-sur-Seine, love football and rap music and is now, say the surveys, the politician best seen in France. The intention to vote his party is given at around 10%, launched by the social tension that reigns in the country, from large events that have followed from January to May and from the divisions of the Socialist Party, unable to handle that mounts a protest. "There are 10,000 reasons - said recently at a meeting in Spain - not to remain impassive, not to remain spectators watching what happens in the world, seeing the police just fired the workers who load. Beside the NPI gives signs of life even the PCF, the French Communist Party after the debacle of the presidential of 2007 predicted to exceed 5%. In Germany, Die Linke, the Left, Lothar Bisky and Oscar Lafontaine to take advantage of the loss of consensus of the Social Democrats with the opportunity to exceed 10%, a threshold exceeded by Socialistische Partija in Holland, the Socialist Party of the charismatic Jan Marijnissen, an ex-engineering that has transformed this training, begun in 1972 at all obvious from the confluence between the Maoists and Marxist-Leninists, in reality able to breach the Dutch company riding the issues of environmental protection and the fight against insecurity. Its symbol is a tomato. Expression of a plural left is the Bloque de Esquerra Portuguese, that in these European expected to exceed for the first time the historical Communist Party, Marxist and Leninist yet. The two formations of the extreme left should be the third and fourth parts of the country, a country heavily marked by the crisis. After the massive protests that have marked Athens, is also growing the far-left Greek, with much more heterogeneous than Synaspismos with the communist KKE. And the appearance of new players to the left will come up at the top of Gue. The gray French communist Francis Wurtz, MEP since 1979 and President of the GUE since 1999, is not standing for re a new term, paving the way for a successor, with the new name, that success will depend very much on the NPA in France and Die Linke, Germany.
