A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #35-25 - Streets in Struggle (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The month of November concluded with a weekend packed with strikes, 
demonstrations, sit-ins, and protest initiatives. The strike on Friday 
the 28th enlivened the streets of major cities, successfully rallying 
well beyond the ranks of the various unions and serving as a rallying 
point for students and many other activist groups. On Saturday the 29th, 
well-attended demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people 
and against war and genocide took place in various Italian cities, 
including Rome, Milan, Messina, and Florence. In Turin, the 
demonstration against the Aerospace & Defense Meetings addressed the 
heart of the issue-the production and trade of weapons-bringing to the 
streets the deepest themes of antimilitarism, opposition to all wars, 
nationalism, patriotism, identity politics, and military hierarchies.

A weekend packed with diverse initiatives, each signaling, in its own 
way, a rekindling of social mobilization.

The strike called by grassroots unions for November 28th against the 
Budget Law, rearmament, the war economy, and the genocide in Palestine 
has rekindled the streets after the mobilization of recent months. 
Compared to September/October, last Friday's demonstrations certainly 
saw much lower numbers, but in many places, progress was made and 
participation was certainly higher than that which has characterized 
grassroots union strikes in recent years. If we were to think only in 
numbers, we would have to say: fewer than October 3rd, but more than 
ever. But there are more important overall assessments to be made, and 
one thing is certain: the intersection and cross-pollination of 
struggles, the development of a broad social opposition, can count on 
the new centrality given to the strike tool in recent months, and on the 
renewed awareness of the working class's role in halting the war 
machine. Because at the heart of this season, in addition to the large 
masses of young people and students, are precisely those so often 
considered lost: the many workers who have animated the streets, the 
protests, the pickets, sensitive to the specific issues of their 
sector's demands but also to broader issues, such as war, rearmament, 
military spending, aware of the link between war and exploitation. This 
is a unique moment. We cannot predict its evolution, but one thing is 
certain: it will not be union bureaucracies, party secretariats, or 
pre-packaged packages that will relaunch a new season of mobilizations, 
but rather self-organization and the concrete and collective 
experimentation of practices of struggle.

The Editorial Staff

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