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
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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