Thousands of people, firstly those that are fighting for the Housing Rights in Rome, seems to have well learnt from the past lessons about movement and general perspectives. For them, as other thousands of people in Italy, there’s no more place to mediate some agreements with the austerity mandatories, both in a local and a national level. Starting from the specific territories, the components of the movement joined one to each other by some common aspects: one of them is the intransigence,as we can see in the last months with the strong pickets held by the logistic workers in may regions of Italy, opposing with their bodies against exploitation and mafia cooperativistic system., or by the increasing houses occupations, basically in Rome,in which are protagonist many mingrants among many others.

This components, logistic workers and people struggling for the Housing Rights, march togeter in Florence the 25th October: hundreds of people from many cities lay siege to the Fortress where the italian Vice-Premier Angelo Alfano was speaking about Housing businesses and marketing. Demonstrators have no fear to stay in front of the police and their outrageous anti-protest barrages.

Only six days after, movements for the Right of Housing in Rome head to Montecitorio, during the conference between State and regions at Palazzo Chigi, showing all their energies and vitality against Police forces in defense of the building. One more time, demonstrators seems to have no more fear of police violence and all the institutional means of blackmail, such as the racist laws of expulsion and forced repatriation. It’s a very positive issue for a movement that’s absolutely mestizo.

A deep increase of the subjectivities is renewing the mobilizations, not only in order to resist, but to attack the counteparts when it’s possible. The image of dozens of demonstrators seeing at the Buildings of power from the top of the police wagon testify a change in the attitude of the popular opposition against austerity and precarity system in Italy, in the wake of the popular protests ocurred in these years in other Mediterranean countries, and able to imagine other steps of general uprising in conflict.

Taken from Social Strike