Who decides on public spending? The urgence to answer this question from below united the loaders in mobilization against the corrupt system of cooperatives, the house squatters, the high school and university students, the committees against great unnecessary works, the rank and file trade unions and the militants of social centres.

A warm tribute was provided by the crowd beneath the two buildings squatted in the previous months: Asia Usb‘s one, with the recall of the most tragic data of the housing emergency, and the Taksim Student House, where the austerity policies of the Er.Go. body for university services were blamed.

Once the participants arrived beneath the old city council building, they tried to storm it chanting: “House, Income, Dignity!” As the police confronted the protesters with two violent charges, the crowd invaded the Sala Borsa public library and set a tent camp inside it; after that, the protestor chased away the local welfare assessor and started out an assembly.

New important dates were set: a 3-day university students meeting in Rome, a day of struggle in support of precarious workers working on holidays and a nationwide date of boycott against the dairy company Granarolo, in protest against the latter’s exploitation of its loaders, all in December. Towards a great day of siege on the regional council…