The activists raise their game and meet in Rome. Objective: Meloni. An anarchist blog claims train sabotage: «Fire at the Olympics»
A new demonstration against the government. Appointment on March 28th, this time in Rome. Because according to Askatasuna the issue needs to be “complexified”. Word of the self-employed. So never mind if last January 31st the city of Turin was put to fire and sword, if dozens of shops were destroyed and shop windows smashed. Patience for the 103 injured in addition to the policeman Alessandro Calista hit with the hammer. Whoever raised the level of the conflict, declares a spokeswoman for the social center on the sidelines of a meeting with the media, «is whoever ordered the eviction. A government that is the enemy of the people.”
A decision, that of vacating the historic building in Corso Regina Margherita, which Askatasuna stigmatizes as “an attack on the center and an attack on the city”. And if it is offensive, according to logic, it is right to respond. Even with violence. Because even if someone in Askatasuna tries to distance themselves from the use of force, then by contextualizing and complexifying it in the end they always end up justifying it. “Attacking an officer is serious but you ignore social anger,” he admitted Andrea Bonadonnahistoric leader and founder of the social center a The Press. Social anger against the Meloni government and those who put social spaces at risk. Speaking to the media, yesterday the Askatasuna spokesperson reiterated that the objective is to restore the building to all the realities that have always crossed it from below, resisting the logic of the third sector or public-private that would distort it. “The building must continue to be available to citizens with spaces kept free and open access.” A theme, that of social spaces, which could also be discussed. The presentable image for the cameras, however, clashes with the image that is always too ready to wink at violence. He lets it be understood Bonadonna. “Now I think the government will think three times before clearing out another community center.” As if to say that in the end the clashes played into the hands of the autonomous. Nothing but black block infiltrators. With all due respect to the conspiracy theories according to which the clashes were an assist to the government.
One of the policeman’s assailants knows something about it, as reported yesterday by The Truth. This Leonardo, twenty years old and immortalized in the video that shook the entire country with the image of the policeman Calista surrounded and saved by his colleague Lorenzo Virgulti whose civic merit was recognized just yesterday by the administration of Ascoli Piceno. “If you go to demonstrate for the eviction of Askatasuna, obviously you have to fight a little” declared the thug. “The comrades want a serious revolt, they don’t want to go for a Saturday walk.” Arrested after the clashes, he has already been released. Free to go back “to fight” against the State, against the police and to lend a hand to the militants that Askatasuna is now calling to gather again. First two days in Livorno «for a discussion on the methods of struggle» and then on March 28th in Rome. In an attempt not to disperse the social opposition which he said would have consolidated with “the great success” of January 31st and 50,000 demonstrators. There are serious events but Turin has never been detached from social conflicts, those from the social center repeat. «You look at the finger and not at the moon». In short, it’s a question of perspective. And interpretive skills, given that Askatasuna motivates the meeting in the capital with the need “to build a comparison starting from the methods that have been given, i.e. those of let’s block everything”. Strange way to look for a dialogue.
In view of Rome, Askatasuna continues with his nods to the hard line seasoned with a bit of diplomacy. Balances that seem to go well with that gray area of cultured and bourgeois supporters evoked by the Attorney General of Turin Lucia Musti. A thin line between legality and illegality where oxymorons are not mutually exclusive. As in the usual refrain already proposed in Turin. “We will continue to bring social opposition to the government and against wars to the streets.” Strange way to ask for peace
All this just as in the last few hours, the acts of sabotage on the railway lines of Bologna and Pesaro last Saturday were claimed by anarchist movements. With a document that raises the level of the conflict even further. «It seems necessary to arm ourselves with the tools of clandestinity, of the decentralization of the conflict and the multiplication of its fronts, of self-defense and sabotage to survive the times we are facing». And then “fire on the Olympics and on those who produce them”, complete with a connection with what happened two years ago when five infrastructures around the French capital were vandalized before the Paris Games. The reaction of the Minister of Transport is harsh Matteo Salvini That promises to “chase and track down these criminals wherever they hide”.
