Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Italian Rich Mobilise for Class-War

Capitalists to set up own Political Party in Italy to carry on Anti-Working class legislation

The capitalist class in Italy led by Piedmontese aristocrat and Ferrari boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo‭ (‬net worth‭ ‬$400million‭) ‬are very keen to keep Mario Monti as Prime Minister with his unelected government to carry on the work of the capitalist class in‭ “‬national reconstruction‭”‬.‭ ‬Monezemolo held the first convention of his movement for Monti‭  ‬in Rome on‭ ‬17th November‭ ‬2012,‭ ‬attended by‭ ‬7,000‭ ‬people,‭ ‬mostly professionals and capitalist entrepreneurs and supported by ACLI,‭ ‬a Christian workers association.

Monti's‭ '‬bankers government‭' ‬of technocrats known as‭ “‬governo tecnico‭” ‬was installed by the capitalist class in November‭ ‬2011‭ ‬to introduce economic austerity measures and anti-working class legislation under the guise of labour market liberalisation.‭ ‬Monti,‭ ‬an economist and academic,‭ ‬formerly an EU commissioner,‭ ‬was also an international adviser to Goldman Sachs,‭ ‬member of the Senior Affairs Council of Moody’s,‭ ‬and is a member of the Bilderberg Group of world leaders and capitalists.‭ ‬Monti's appointed cabinet contains academics,‭ ‬a banker,‭ ‬a‭  ‬diplomat,‭ ‬and a NATO Admiral.

The Monti government has‭ “‬liberalised‭” ‬certain professions and jobs in the working class that the capitalist class see as‭ “‬restrictive‭”‬,‭ ‬and detrimental to the ethos of capitalist competition.‭ ‬These include taxi drivers,‭ ‬pharmacists,‭ ‬doctors,‭ ‬lawyers,‭ ‬notaries,‭ ‬dentists,‭ ‬local public transport,‭ ‬and petrol stations.‭ ‬The capitalist class want to‭ “‬reform‭” ‬the licensing systems for these workers and abolish minimum tariffs.‭ 

The most significant attack on the Italian working class by the capitalist class is the Monti governments attempts to‭ “‬reform‭” ‬Article‭ ‬18‭ ‬of‭  ‬Italy's‭ ‬1970‭ ‬Worker's Statute,‭ ‬a piece of social democratic legislation that the Italian working class consider their‭ '‬Bill of Rights‭'‬.‭ ‬The Worker's Statute has‭ “‬rules on the protection of the freedom and dignity of workers and of trade union freedom and union activity in the workplace and rules on the public employment service‭”‬,‭ ‬and stipulates that worker's contracts‭  ‬and wage rates are governed by collective labour agreements between national trade unions and employers organisations.‭ ‬Workers are protected by the statute regarding dismissals and redundancies,‭ ‬in fact to the capitalist class dismay the statute does not permit companies to lay off workers for the sake of increased productivity.‭ ‬The capitalist class want Article‭ ‬18‭ “‬reformed‭” ‬which at present requires companies to re-hire rather than compensate any employee who is found to have been dismissed without just cause.‭  ‬Basically,‭ ‬to make it easier to sack workers.‭ 

The Italian working class need to be aware of the fickleness of reformist measures in protecting their rights,‭ ‬and that only the replacing of capitalism with socialism can solve the issues facing them.‭ ‬Marx puts it in a nutshell in‭ ‬Value,‭ ‬Price and Profit:‭ “‬Instead of the‭ ‬conservative motto:‭ '‬A fair day's wage for a fair day's work‭!‬' they ought to inscribe on their banner the‭ ‬revolutionary watchword:‭ '‬Abolition of the wages system‭!‬' “.

Steve Clayton

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