Surviving Capitalism (Not) : “An injury to all”: the class struggle is back in Italy

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

“An injury to all”: the class struggle is back in Italy

Click here to access article by Alfredo Mazzamauro from Reflections on a Revolution.

The author reports on the current class war being waged in Italy due to the acceleration of contradictions resulting from the recent economic collapse and austerity policies. Workers are organizing and fighting back while capitalists are employing their usual divide and rule strategies.

As Renzi’s center-left government intensifies the project of neoliberal restructuring, a wave of self-organized class struggle takes off across Italy.