The days of excellent Istituto Luce films are long gone. Today, the heirs of that “matrix” are also having trouble with event posters. Thus, two controversial names emerge among those who attended the founding meeting of the new party of former Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno, which aims to make a “right-wing” agitation against the government led by Giorgia Meloni. : Marxists Moni Ovadia and Marco Rizzo. The first cancels his participation after a few hours, complaining about a misunderstanding, while the second confirms his existence.
“I’ll stop you right now. Alemanno organized the founding convention of one of his companies,” Rizzo explains, and the event includes a roundtable on dissident issues. I’m attending a round table, certainly not a meeting. “We have the founding congress of Sovereign and People’s Democracy in January.”
Do you agree that seeing your name and Moni Ovadia’s name next to Alemanno can arouse a certain curiosity?
“Obviously, a newspaper had made the usual soup. Then some athletes from the Democratic Party came to give me anti-fascism lessons. Are they the ones who gave me anti-fascism lessons? Are they the same people who voted in the European Parliament to equate Nazism and Communism? Podium for election campaigns What do they do about the anti-fascism in his character? Unlike them, there were fascists in my house: at the age of sixteen, seventeen and nineteen, I played with them twice and risked my life once. In the PCI they are now in the service of the bankers and I am in the round where Alemanno is I can’t go to the table? But please…”.
A few years ago you and Alemanno would have fallen apart
“Probably. But those who were with me a few years ago are now with the bankers, with NATO, with the European Union. Alemanno is now against the war: I will argue with him at the round table, along with others who certainly do not have these political ideas. Then there was a miscommunication and The two things cannot be clearly distinguished, but that is Alemanno’s problem, not mine.”
Let’s continue the war in the Middle East. How do you read the debate in Italy?
“There is only one thought.”
I don’t remember where but I’ve heard of it before…
“I will give you a list of what happened in the last three years: I criticized the management of the pandemic and the green transition and became a conspiracy theorist; I criticized the war in Ukraine, the sanctions and sanctions. I opposed the sending of weapons and became a Putin supporter; I criticized the climate issue because 70 percent of the world’s pollution I said that 100,000 of the crimes were caused by the biggest multinational corporations and I became a denier; now I criticize. The genocide in Gaza is just a brutal revenge for the Hamas massacre and considering that five thousand innocent children died and I am an anti-Semite, I think it is a state’s right to defend itself. It has nothing to do with any critical thought.”
How does Marco Rizzo classify himself today?
“I am someone who wants system change because I do not like this system. Francesco Toscano and I established a political hypothesis, it is called Sovereign and Popular Democracy. These are three adjectives that fully recognize my feelings.
We want a real democracy, not a country where people vote every five years and are chosen for election campaigns based on the size of their wallets. “We want a country where sovereignty is somehow returned to the people, not to the European Central Bank, not to NATO, not to the International Monetary Fund, which is a hundred times more important than our prime ministers, including Giorgia Meloni.”
You know that sovereignty is a right-wing thing like Alemanno, right?
“Because the left has denied the lesson of Antonio Gramsci, who talked about the nation, who talked about hegemony. The left has betrayed, the left is the left of the banks. The current left is the worst there is. The right is not. It is much better because it does the same things.”
I saw on X that he also attacked Landini, posted a photo of himself with Mario Draghi, and criticized his contracts. What do you think about the conflict between the government and the unions due to the strike on the 17th?
“This is a strike for the political survival of the CGIL and the union alliance. This is a strike on Friday, and now this has become exhausting: the great struggles of the metalworkers and the class conflict union have been carried out in the midst of the war. We will make the week as big as possible.” “Instead of causing damage, they are now trying to extend the weekend.”
But wait, transportation workers work seven days a week, nothing changes for them, Friday or any other day…
“But I’m not just talking about transport, I’m talking about everything. This is a political strike against the centre-right, and yes, it’s doing shameful things. And above all, it’s doing the exact opposite of what it said in the election.” campaign. Matteo Salvini talked about the 41st quota, he talked about pensions, banks… they did the exact opposite. But I ask myself, where was Landini when Article 18 was repealed? He was the secretary of FIOM. What did he do? What does CGIL do when Fornero reaches retirement age 67? They went on strike for four hours for another five years. France has the much smaller CGT, but it is still a class-based conflict union and not a class-based conflict union. “The only common decision: Increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64 paralyzed the country, let alone the CGIL, for months.”
So, does it make sense to still talk about class struggle in 2023?
“The class struggle was waged by multinational corporations, and they won. The elite waged it against the people; they killed the middle class, proletarianized it; they turned everyone who made a living from their own work into fruit salad. Today the class struggle is: the rich against the poor.”
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Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
