Rome, 12 September (LaPresse) – La Via Maestra returns to the streets. The CGIL and over a hundred associations, together with the numerous civil society organisations that are gradually joining the Alliance, are calling for participation and organising a major national demonstration for Saturday 17 October in Rome. The decision was taken this morning by the La Via Maestra assembly, which is strongly reaffirming the need for renewed social activism to defend and fully implement the Constitution. This mobilisation, they explain, “has been made necessary by an authoritarian shift in Italy, as well as in Europe and around the world, characterised by a centralisation of power, and is intended to demand that the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution be fully recognised once again and made effectively enforceable throughout the country. Starting with peace, against the transformation of our economy into a war economy; for a genuinely progressive tax system; for a public and universal welfare system; for the environmental restructuring of our production system; for work and the creation of quality jobs; to address the wage crisis and tackle precarious employment; to combat inequalities and regional disparities, which risk increasing; to defend our constitutional democracy and revitalise public participation”.
CGIL: Via Maestra – National demonstration in Rome on 17 October
Rome, 12 September (LaPresse) – La Via Maestra returns to the streets. The CGIL and over a hundred associations, together with the numerous civil society organisations that are gradually joining the Alliance, are calling for participation and organising a major national demonstration for Saturday 17 October in Rome. The decision was taken this morning by the La Via Maestra assembly, which is strongly reaffirming the need for renewed social activism to defend and fully implement the Constitution. This mobilisation, they explain, “has been made necessary by an authoritarian shift in Italy, as well as in Europe and around the world, characterised by a centralisation of power, and is intended to demand that the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution be fully recognised once again and made effectively enforceable throughout the country. Starting with peace, against the transformation of our economy into a war economy; for a genuinely progressive tax system; for a public and universal welfare system; for the environmental restructuring of our production system; for work and the creation of quality jobs; to address the wage crisis and tackle precarious employment; to combat inequalities and regional disparities, which risk increasing; to defend our constitutional democracy and revitalise public participation”.