Trade unions in the streets of Rome, "No more fascisms"

• Unions demonstration in Rome, first arrivals in Piazza San Giovanni

• Unions and center left return to San Giovanni

• No green pass, violence in the center of Rome.

  Neofascists attack the headquarters of the CGIL

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October 16, 2021 The national demonstration organized by CGIL, CISL and UIL in Rome with the slogan "No more fascisms: for work, participation, democracy", launched jointly after last Saturday's assault on the headquarters of the CGIL, is starting an attack on the entire confederal trade union, the world of work and democracy. Piazza San Giovanni is slowly coloring with the flags and slogans of the trade unions. The appointment is for 2 pm. 10 thousand demonstrators are expected in the procession, which will start from the Esquiline, and 50 thousand in the square. 800 coaches from all over Italy were organized, 10 special trains, plus a few flights from the islands, as well as those who will move with their own means, the unions said, considering "the response to the appeal is important"of the three confederal organizations. Dozens of members joined by associations, movements and parties, from Pd to M5s and Leu, Action, Italian Left, Communist Refoundation, Green Europe.

On the stage there will be interventions by a UIL pensioner, by the general secretary of the CISL Luigi Sbarra, by a health worker delegated by CGIL, by the general secretary of Uil Pierpaolo Bombardieri, by a trade worker by Cisl delegated, by the general secretary of Ces Luca. Visentini The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, will conclude.

"The demonstration of CGIL, CISL and UIL today in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome will be a signal of great unity in the country against all forms of fascism and anti-democratic drift". This is what the CISL Secretary General underlines today in an intervention in the Catholic daily "Avvenire". "Ours will be an authentically trade union, free, democratic demonstration, far from the sirens of parties and politics, open to all citizens and associations, to all the realities of civil society that share the founding values ​​of our Constitution. a strong, decisive response was immediately on the field against the squadron assault on the CGIL headquarters, after a long crescendo of violence, threats and vandalism against all Italian confederal trade unionism.Attacks that continue incessant, even in these days ". Sbarra adds that" there is a very heavy climate in the country. These foci of subversion, tension and violence must be extinguished with the firmness of democratic institutions, dissolving the openly neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements, but also strengthening the reasons for cohesion, development, national unity ". 

"Today's is an anti-fascist demonstration not an electoral demonstration. Today we do not give indications for voting on the ballots but we support values, constitutional principles". This was stated by Pierpaolo Bombardieri, UIL secretary general to "Sabato Anch'io" on Radio1, regarding today's demonstrations in Rome. "I would like to distinguish the squadrists and fascists from those who go to the streets to democratically express their discomfort. During the pandemic there has been an increase in the poor and inequalities, and the criminals have entered by exploiting this discomfort", said Bombardieri. "The debate has shifted to fascism and anti-fascism because anyone who attacks a trade union headquarters in that way can only be a fascist.This is why today we go to the streets to say that this is a democratic and anti-fascist country, without giving up discussing our issues ", he concluded.

"I am convinced that tomorrow the demonstration in Rome will be a great demonstration and, among other things, we ask that the Government take a measure which, by applying the laws of our country and the Constitution, dissolve all formations that refer to fascism, especially with the acts of violence that have been deployed. it is an offense to our Constitution and is a way of violating the world of work. I am convinced that tomorrow will be a beautiful day for our entire country ". This was said yesterday by the national secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, on the sidelines of an initiative in Pescara. "