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Have a nice election
And have a nice dictatorship, too...

FdCA National Secretariat Statement

On 24 and 25 February, a sizeable group of candidates to the senate and the lower house will be trying to have themselves elected by millions of Italians by promising a new government and the best of all possible worlds. And so all the various saviours of the bank accounts and the class-based re-equilibration of capitalist accumulation will stand up and present themselves as the paladins of democracy and national salvation.

It is theatre of the absurd as staged by the Italian bourgeoisie, and it would be comic if we were not in such a tragic situation, with the social butchery being carried out thanks to the freedom-killing, authoritarian measures of the Monti government, cheered on from the wings by two thirds of the parliament. And of course, before him there were the neoliberal policies of Berlusconi and the PD that impoverished millions of workers and pensioners, those who have always been the target of choice for the financial bourgeoisie's class-based policies once they came to power with the rise of the neoliberal phase of capitalism.

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14 November, first European general strike

Let's build on it and continue it !

FdCA Council of Delegates document

While the thrust of capital's offensive continues, using the crisis and economic policies to restrict freedom, conquests and rights acquired by the workers over the years, it is increasingly evident the extent to which the current phase is making it even more difficult for forms of associations and collective praxis to emerge on the initiative of the workers.

This is a difficult and apparently hopeless phase, in which we are all involved in an attempt to create more room for political movement and for struggle so that we can work our way out of the quagmire we have been driven into by the restructuring of capital, both economic and financial. A restructuring which is being carried out on several levels and which is continuing to gain from the crisis from an economic point of view, but also from a normative and social point of view. Indeed, capitalism has managed to deregulate labour, helping to push any form of combative, demand-based syndicalism into a corner. It continues to reduce public services such as schools and healthcare and complement them with bilateral bodies into differentiated levels of access on the basis of income. And it is seeking to destroy any social solidarity by means of the scientific destruction of national collective bargaining by sector.

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Grassroots syndicalist general strike on 27 January

FdCA Labour Commission statement

2012 has opened without too many worries for those in Italy who hold 50% of the country's wealth, that is to say the 10% of the well-off who are part of the 1% of rich people throughout the world that prevents 99% of the world's population from accessing its wealth. Globalization has thus been a success, in the sense of global impoverishment. And Italian workers are now beginning to see the seriousness of the situation.

With the support of a huge majority in Parliament and to the shame of certain trade unions who no longer have Berlusconi on their side, the Monti techno-government has closely followed the script written by the European Union and re-established the harshness of the class reality: the dominant, exploiting classes will not be paying anything, the dominated, exploited classes will have to pay for everything: they will pay the public debt, they will pay for social services, they will pay for assistance and healthcare in order to save themselves and the country.

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FIAT Dux

Statement by the FdCA Labour Commission

The new FIAT agreement came into effect on 1 January 2012 in all FIAT plants. It cancels the national collective bargaining agreement and all other existing agreements. It was accompanied by a specific contract for the car sector and the cancellation of the 2008 national collective agreement for the metalworkers section, which now goes down in history as being the last voted for by the workers themselves.

These are three steps that the bosses have taken in the space of 10 days (from 13 to 23 December 2011), which radically change the system of labour relations - and indeed social relations - in Italy. In effect, it is the end of the leading role of the workers and fighting trade unions.