The European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet, said recently: "We are facing a systemic crisis." As in all these years he and others who have run the world economy have always said that with globalization and the free market would create prosperity for all, should step aside. But really in this economic crisis, things are going wrong for all? Far from it. They talk about the data. The five hundred companies in the world, in 2009, have increased the profits of 335%. Net profit of the multinationals in 2010 increased by 210%. Tax evasion in Italy is € 120 billion per year. 64% of luxury boats are made out to have-nots, the sale of luxury goods grew by 4.8% in 2010 and who declared an income of over € 100,000 is 1% of the Italian population. On the other hand 72% of the pensions paid is less than € 1000 and 45.9% inferiore ai 500 euro. Berlusconi sostiene che con la sua manovra economica «non ha messo le mani in tasca agli italiani».
Anche su questo nulla di più falso. A parte i super ricchi come lui e gli evasori fiscali che non vengono minimamente colpiti, i tagli alle regioni significheranno riduzioni di servizi e aumenti delle rette. La finestra unica annuale per andare in pensione determinerà che chi, senza lavoro, attende la pensione di vecchiaia perderà 7150 euro. Si potrebbe proseguire. Basta dire che in questi vent’anni i «sacrifici» sono stati a senso unico poiché i salari gli stipendi e le pensioni hanno perso il 20% del loro potere di acquisto a vantaggio del profitto e della rendita.
A proposito di questo scenario could make many arguments. I get one, maybe a little 'simplistic, but that's what I think. The owners have done their job, the forces were to protect employees and the weakest social classes have failed across the board. The pursuit of neoliberal policies and privatization have made to enrich the usual suspects and removed from the hands of the state policy areas. The assumption of the majority of presidential power and the personalization of politics, devoid of elected assemblies.
All activities implemented by the largest party of the left, the dissolution of the Communist Party today (PDS, DS, PD), have had this setting and not just the electoral support has declined, but the lack of policy proposals, as rightly pointed Valentino Parlato editorial last Sunday, is total. This is demonstrated by the fact that, despite the presence of a deep crisis of the government and the PDL, an alternative is not apparent. However, if she cries Athens, Sparta does not laugh! We, too, forces that in recent years have attempted to build an alternative to both the center-right that we have failed and we are divided.
We try to make something out of this aphasia. To the left of the Democratic Party there are several projects in the field. I do not intend to put into question, indeed. For my part I am engaged in the construction of Fds, because I believe the need for a reunification of the forces of the left, but I think that this debba avvenire senza rinunciare all’autonomia dal Pd e senza cancellare la propria identità.
Detto questo, e quindi dando per scontato che ognuno persegue legittimamente il proprio progetto, perché non provare a unire le forze sulle tante cose che ci uniscono? Cosa ci dice il successo della raccolta di firme del referendum sull’acqua, se non che l’unità su contenuti chiari funziona da moltiplicatore e suscita energie? Visto che diciamo le stesse cose, perché non lavorare assieme per contrastare la manovra economica del Governo e il vergognoso accordo proposto dalla Fiat per Pomigliano?
Perché non costruire un «luogo comune» dove si possa discutere di questo e di altro e trovare le possibili soluzioni? In these days has circulated an appeal. He is collecting a number of accessions. In September we plan to meet to see what can be done. Because the poster and the Association for the Renewal of the Left, always plural places of the left, it does not become promoters?