Italians take to streets again over low wages, welfare cuts, and high military spending
On Friday, a string of grassroots unions called a 24-hour strike aimed at protesting declining real wages, rising living costs, cuts to welfare services, and increased military expenditure.
Major disruptions were recorded across public and private sectors, including transportation, schools, healthcare services, and public administration.
Marches and rallies were staged in several cities, including Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, and Catania.
Clearly, one of the effects of globalization is that whatever decision made by the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and so on, has profound reverberations on our societies.
We have low wages and job insecurity because the EU and NATO, through our governments, have put in place these decisions.
The same applies to wars.
That's why our demonstration today is also in support of those peoples who are under siege.
Roberto Martelli, USI Union
Grassroots unions have also condemned the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people and the illegal war on Iran, calling on the Italian government to suspend political and commercial relations with the Israeli regime.
The US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran has severely impacted the Italian economy through an energy shock.
Unions are saying that Italy is always on the wrong side of history by providing unconditional support to the aggressors.
Surely the Italian people are not on the wrong side of history.
Over the past months, we have seen millions of Italians and Europeans protesting against the wars waged against the Palestinians, the Venezuelans, the Iranians.
The European institutions, the Italian government, it's they who are definitely on the wrong side of history.
Antonio Amoroso, CUB Union
Workers are aware of the fact that Israel is the major cause of instability in West Asia, and that its crimes have an impact on their lives here in Europe.
Germano Monti, CUB Union
The energy price shock, triggered by the US-Israel illegal war on Iran, is affecting the average Italian family and small and medium firms enormously, and its impact is bigger in Italy than in most other EU countries.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has recently renewed calls for Brussels to allow greater budget flexibility for measures aimed at easing this energy price shock.
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