(Marzamemi
July 23-30 th 2000)
The
Struggle’s camping of Marzamemi,
in Sicily, is hardly concluded:
over hundred companions have
given life and strength to a week of
debates, mobilizations, meetings
that have crossed the whole region Sicily.
From
Trapani to Gela, from Marzamemi to Avola, is looked for in all the ways
to make visible and incisive our
presence on the Sicilian territory, not
neglecting, for this the discussions and the debates to which
the representatives of big
part of Sicilian and national
antagonists realities have taken part .
Leaving
aside the rhetoric, we think opportune to socialize
schematically the events,
the discussions and therefore the results of
this meeting.
27
July: a
demostration of hundreds of people has crossed the center of
Trapani to denounce the barbarity of the center of temporary detention
for migrants “Serraino
Vulpitta”, the same lager where, in a fire in
the last December, 6
nord-african immigrants died, locked in a
room, without way out. The mobilizations of the Sicilian anti-racist movement
already in past made pressure and
reports to hurry the closing of this lager.
To
two days from the demostration, the news arrives: the “Serraino Vulpitta” is
seized by the magistracy, the prefect of Trapani is
denounced for homicide and omissions of office actions and office abuse.
Therefore
the procession becomes a moment to vindicate this partial victory
and above all to confirm the firm opposition, now and always,
about a possible reopening
of the “Serraino Vulpitta” and of any other “State’s
lager” (with the closing of the
Trapani’s lager, in Sicily all
the centers of temporary detention
have been closed).
28
July: back from
Trapani, a camping delegation picks up the
invitation of the same workers in struggle to go to the Petrochemical one of
Gela, where from three days about ten workers are barricaded under
a torrid sun on a tower of 20 meters, to oppose against the dismissal of 54
workers. The general strike is revoked by the federate labour unions the
preceding day.
Nevertheless,
in way entirely autorganized, the
same workers picket since the first
hours of the morning the factory
completely militarized: the participants
to the camping mix themselves,
discuss and give solidarity with
the garrison of the workers out the gates of the factory.
The delegation of the
camping, composed by representatives of unemployed
movements of struggle,
structures of the unions of base, social centers, “dismisses” confirming their own availability to support
materially and politically the mobilization under the office to Rome that
the workers of Gela
are preparing.
29
July: in the same
days of the Sicilian camping , the
multinational of
job temporary "Adecco " open a new center to Avola, a city to
few kilometers from the camping,
country symbol of the country struggles in the
postwar period (different
laborers died during the revolts in the sixties). Against the old
ones and the new forms of the caporalato, the camping of struggle it
decides to invade Avola to communicate and to denounce to the city this
villainous presence.
Beyond
struggle’s initiatives ,
that have no character of
extemporaneousness but are inserted in runs of social intervention that
the sicilian companions
already have standing for years or however
retain necessary to equip,
the datum as many meaningful it is represented by the
debates and by the daily discussions that inside
the camping have taken
form. Essentially the collective reflection is articulated
around four seams of
discussion:
-
IMMIGRATION
-
JOB AND NO JOB
-
BIOTHECNOLOGY
-
TERRITORIES’S MILITARIZATION
It
would be rather riductive to try to contain in few lines the wealth of debate
and experiences that in Marzamemi is
compared in shut and deepened way. The promoting Sicilian realities of the
camping have after all undertaken the task to stretch as soon as possible a
budget and a synthesis of this week
of discussion and struggle.
On
our behalf we want only to point out some hypotheses of mobilization for the
next year emerged from the discussions:
-
A conference/seminary on the biothecnologies in autumn.
-
A national mobilization of all the precarious and the LSUs for half
October (before the expiration of October 31, when the state will cut about the 50% of the benefits to tihs state temporary workers).
-
A struggle on the matter of the
guaranteed salary, also departing from an active critic to the Least Income of
insertion and the social politics in general.
Regarding the specific matter of the mobilizations for the closing
of the lager and the opening of the frontiers, the realities present to
the
camping
are riconvocates on the occasion of the national meeting that will
be September 2 to Brescia, during the meeting of
“Radio Onda d’Urto”.
The
Naples’s comrades presents on the meeting of Marzamemi