If the media actually cried havoc in the days preceding the May Day demonstration, by announcing a police deployment counting about 1000 agents on duty, there were the many people who protested today to show a real strength; and they did not cede to the repeated charges that happened all the march long.

Actually since the beginning of the demonstration, as hundred of people protested against the Democratic Party presence in the square, the riot police charged again and again, injuring some people and blocking Luciano, a no tav activist. Inside the little democrat group formed by about a hundred people (very few of them being party militants, considering the remarkable security apparatus – which was subcontracted to external agencies and complicit DIGOS political police officers) stood many well known faces; like senator Stefano Esposito that, even before positioning himself among his colleagues, did warmly go and greet the DIGOS agents on site, getting reassured of an as much diligent as despicable work in the party’s defense. After the earlier charges, the demonstrators managed to stay compact and start the march.

Video of the earlier charges in Piazza Vittorio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many speeches were made; not only regarding the enormous aggressions of the police that once again reveal the true nature of the Democratic Party, but also the condition of precarity that, for a most long time now, influences the lives of a huge number of people. The attempt by the police department and the administration was clear. To not allow those thousands of people to “disrupt” the immaculate parade envisaged by the institutions. An unfulfilled goal, since the demonstrators managed to catch up once again with the Democratic Party along the way, for then arriving in Piazza San Carlo, where the usual institutional speech was scheduled to take place. When Renzi’s little party was catched up, the police charged once again and blocked the people, which were committed to advance. The charges injured many of the latter, too, and blocked a student girl from the Turinese Autonomous University Collective and a Radio BlackOut editor, that was then kept under arrest.

After the repeated charges, the demonstrators did not step off; rather, shortly after that, they advanced towards Piazza San Carlo, where once again the podium for the institutional rallies was taken by the people in the square – the true social opposition against the Renzi government and the municipal administration. An opposition that showed, through the many no tav activists’, students’, precarious and unemployed workers’ speeches, that the game is not over yet and that the intimidations of the police department and the administration will not succeed in making step back, not even half a meter, the thousands of people that opposes the predation of their needs and their dignity; and that showed today a sharp hostility against the rhetorical institutional little parade.

See you on July 11. This is just the beginning.