Threats and shredders

Even the transporters are no longer those of once... Those who, for example, blocking Chile, “justified” the American choice of the Pinochet coup.

Other times, other continent, other social structure. In Italy the sector mixes and confuses large groups of logistics (those that “make the market” and establish tariffs), employees in the strict sense, “padroncini” with two or three Tir, or perhaps one of which are also drivers.

All equally defined – or self-defined – “chamberists”, although internal differences are great. The same among farmers, mostly associated in the Coldiretti led by the iron melonian Ettore Prandini, however son of Giovanni, in the 80s Democrat Minister of the Mercantile Navy and Public Works.

La Cia, one of the major associations of the primary sector (no matter what to see with the homonymous “dict” American spy), yesterday organized a garrison in front of Montecitorio.

In the meantime, fishing vessels also stop in many Italian ports to protest both against carcinogens and against European policies which reduce fishing days and multiply their obligations to the detriment of the enterprises. The mobilization, born independently in the marineries and with epicentre in the Upper Adriatic, denounces a crisis that puts at risk the economic sustainability of the sector, denounces Confcooperative Agrofood and Fisheries.

The first two are categories stressed by the dear oil and which now block the roads, stopping the essential supplies for a while all the supply chain, but with heavy visible falls especially for supermarkets and fuel distributors.

Two worlds with the “right” leadership, historically, ready to respect the “friend governments” and to be heard heavily by just a little different ones.

If we do not keep in mind the fact that this sector has always been an important component of the right-wing “social block” it is not even understood because for ten days it blocks the roads without the government “law and order” remembered that it has invented, among the many “networks” of the “decreti security”, also that of roadblock, even “with its own body” and that’s enough.

These were students or workers, I mean, they would have been loaded by the police since the first day...

But the time of the double standard – benevolent, in this case – is also over for this social sector. Yesterday the sudden reversal of march of the government, with the police sent to record the protesters (1,400 identified drivers, “races” for those who decided to give up the blocks, intimidation generally for all others, pressure on the associations “of area”).

The redivivo minister of agriculture “and food sovereignty”, Francesco Lollobrigida, who had disappeared from the radar after having blocked – he – a Frecciarossa for a downhill program and having lost the familiarity acquired with the premier (it was known as “the brother-in-law”), immediately pushed on the peaks of complottism: “The criminal infiltration is obvious.” We are waiting for “pro-Putin players”, but the climate is now this: when you don’t know what to do, meni and spread suspicion...

The government would in fact give order to “scruit” inside the judicial boxes to see who, among the truckers (we respect: drivers and “padroncini”, certainly not among the owners of the great enterprises of the logistics) has criminal precedents for any kind of crime, so as to “try” claims that otherwise would be only resible or confined to complottism.

Scandalous more than usual the communiqué of the Cgil that I intend to desist from the mobilization and invites the prefects to "guarantee the freedom of movement of goods", without even "compensate" this absurd support to repression with an invitation to circumstance to the government because at least listen to the reasons of the protest.

The political-political pressure has had as its only effect, so far, that of suspending agitation and blocks in Sicily and Calabria, for geographical reasons the most penalized regions. But the declared “sensus of responsibility” of local associations has also entered the expiry date: in the absence of concrete signals, they will only recover the roads.

On the side of the “dialogue”, after days of silence and a half appointment for the 27 (thinking in the logic of avoiding the possible welding with the general strike of 30), the government announced for today a decree in order to finally provide almost 500 million “restors” promised to the sector already several months ago but never exit from the coffers of the State.

Not new money, in short, only those “forgetted” in some drawer ready to be stunned on other budget items, magari per il riarmo...

Idem for farmers, with commitments which are associated with the billion euro. But it is also clear that the problem of fuel prices depends on the international situation, ergo from the shady choices of this government as previous ones, the structure of the excise duties on which the VAT is paid, etc. So they are palliatives that postpone the problem – the survival of enterprises and people – of a few weeks, maximum a few months, but they do not solve anything.

So the post-fascist government remains with the hand on the gun, pardon, on the bat. When the only instrument you have is a hammer everything begins to resemble a nail.