Anarchists and libertarian communists in the CGIL #32 - The
DOCUMENT ACCOMPANYING THE LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE STEERING
COMMITTEE NATIONAL CGIL, BY MEMBERS Dl "WORK NOW, LEFT AUDITORS
Dl MAJORITY CONGRESS". (it) [machine translation]
"Work Company, trade union left majority congress' aggregation representative national
confederation that, in the new stage and in continuity with the experience of programmatic
area, want to face the challenge of change testing himself on the merits union. ---- We
are committed not to lose the historical heritage and the value of a left trade union
confederation of identity, not a minority in practice and developing, and with a strong
sense of unity and belonging to the CGIL. ---- Work Company has always tried to give their
ideas and diversity dignity of battles of principle and about trade union and strength of
this heritage, as decided by the national coordination of 29 July last, will come by the
end of October at a National Assembly , which will be discussed and defined the contents
of about union with the aim of giving substance and perspective to our identity as a trade
union left majority, measuring ourselves on the perspective and the issues that we face
and that we expect in the near future. The path of the Assembly will feature an extensive
comparison collective open to all instances and sensitivity which will be seen in the
territories and in the categories.
The same national meeting of July 29, has also indicated, as part of a renewed
collegiality, its national contact point with a role of dialogue and representation to the
organization.
Work Company has shared the document congressional majority and eleven actions and, with
the amendments in Congress basis, he made contributions to the final document of the XVII
Congress.
That document and eleven actions are our reference.
We are ready, in view of the forthcoming conference of the organization, looking back
without fences and self-reference, in an open path, not competition among elites but of
perspective, for a wider CGIL trade union left in a stronger and more representative.
Our commitment and our action consistently have turned to give substance to the Plan of
Work, to apply and extend the important agreement on representation, to put into practice
what is contained in conference document and implement the campaign meetings to build and
Country living in the dispute on general security and tax authorities, and to redistribute
income from large estates to work and social security system, recovering the wound
produced by Law Fornero.
We want to contribute to the renewal of a general nature, plural, autonomous and
democratic CGIL, with its history of union representation and general interests of the
working class, with a strategic scope. A CGIL capable of re-thinking and the courage to
change while remaining anchored in its culture, which has its roots in the labor movement
of the '900, based on the values of the Republican Constitution, on the participation of
members and of members and bargaining. CGIL a united and cohesive, from its leadership in
defense of historic achievements - the Workers' Statute law of contract renewal - which
must become stable and universal, and with the ability to respond to the problems of
people, looking at company of today and the future, and guarding against demagoguery
nuovista and youthful that devalues skills and experience, without the help necessary
generational change.
A CGIL that must be defended from attack subtle and dangerous that is suffering from many
quarters, with an assumption of responsibility, individual and collective, from its entire
management team. This does not stop to analyze and deal with seriousness and rigor limits,
inadequacies, and a certain lack of influence which have also marked our action in recent
years.
We want to help build a CGIL, alliances, seek consensus and adhesion outside the logic
that the populist and corporate reorganization resulting from the crisis fueled, turning
to those who, self-employed or casual, does not know where to place their employment
status and not crossing the union, it does not perceive it as a useful tool to defend
their rights, not seeing in collective response to their needs and problems.
This is one of the many challenges that the CGIL faces.
At the same time it is necessary to give value to what we do, what we stand for, and
possess with the many mobilizations, initiatives and territorial disputes, what we
continue to represent, in terms of identity and organizational, for a significant part of
the workforce and pensioners, maintaining open internal dialogue and pluralism of ideas,
as in the democratic history of the CGIL.
For us it is essential to start from the reality of the workplace and society, from those
who are not resigned to the crisis, we do not give in to the logic corporate and is
organized and fight collectively for a diverse and more just. The depth of the economic
crisis must be addressed with a project value of general, not to shut ourselves up in the
illusory dimension corporate, localist, sectoral or categorical. This is possible only
enhancing and strengthening the confederal and the sense of belonging, creating a vision
and a hope for the people.
The policy reference of the CGIL was chosen in a congress is not easy, which have
prevailed on the merits of the internal dynamics and has partially lost the opportunity of
a real confrontation with a wide audience of subscribers. There was a need not of
divisions and ruptures, but of a conference unit; not have succeeded is a responsibility
of the entire leadership.
The political disruptions and produced the disappearance of the conditions for the unity
government organization is a defeat for everyone. It is today not to persevere in
following roads that are likely to lead to the disintegration of the "common home 'We feel
committed to this contributing to the creation of a Conference of organization that is
useful to the CGIL and effective, and that, in the lines address, keeps about problems and
sees reproduce the conflict confrontation congress.
We have to test ourselves in a bold but necessary work of change, innovation and
organizational renewal and avoiding generational, with a specific timetable,
improvisations or ideological leaps forward.
It must be overcome at all levels of the logic "proprietary" or "management" that
centralizing power in the hands of the general secretaries, often produces the effect of
stifling differences about union, playing a dialectic between power groups or an
indefinite pluralism between structures, not compatible with the nature CGIL confederation.
It should be avoided the tendency towards balkanization territorial and categorical, which
carries the risk of a drift bureaucratic and corporate, damaging to the culture of
solidarity and confederal, not complying with the rules that deliver organizational
decisions and policies to a figure not individual, but a collective through the executive
bodies and especially decision deputies, from the National Steering Committee CGIL. It
remains essential to reaffirm and revive the confederal, all cited but little practiced,
reviewing the verticalization of our structure through greater cross-fertilization and
organic unity between the Confederation and the categories.
We recognize the need to overcome mistakes and limitations encountered, to rethink our
organizational model, too bureaucratic and vertical system, to give impetus to new and
more inclusive forms of democratic participation, to make the CGIL more collegial, more
effective and more inclusive, with the Looking to the future, and above all to our members
and to our members, to raise the quality of our role and our function of general union
participation and negotiation.
And 'necessary to analyze true on us, on our membership that sometimes comes down to
bureaucratic act, on the difficulties of representation and our proselytism that is
struggling in a thousand difficulties, held on economic organization, on this subject in
front of a attack that will not stop and will reduce our revenues, forcing us to review
our structures and our facilities.
The first goal is to secure the organization, bringing transparency to all of our resources.
It is crucial for us back on top of the consensus and rebuild the appropriate balance of
power against the bosses and the government of broad alliances and old alliances, which
tends to ignore the role of confederal union representation.
We face the government of the ads, so far able to gather important cross-party consensus,
but not of inter-classist move the economy bent to the failed policies of austerity,
increasingly interdependent and globalized autonomizzata.
A government that, in fact, with linear cuts to public spending and personal services,
with the maintenance of the block of contracts and salaries for the state, with the
confirmation of the Act Fornero and failure revaluation of pensions feeds iniquity ,
practice the doctrine of austerity as the choice of economic and social policy, in this a
continuation of the previous ones, and feeds the insecurity with the liberalization of
short-term contracts. Systematic work, public and private, the rights and constitutional
arrangements, contractual and social security, are demagogically attacked without giving
the expected responses and useful to social development and democracy in the country,
however only achievable through investments for the revival and renewal of the system
production and a strong and sustainable growth in the aspect of employment, social,
economic and environmental. Growth is notably absent, and in terms of the work we did not
own. Compared to the crisis they are wrong and the analysis on the nature of the recipes
out of it. And 'why we must strengthen our independent judgment to the government, without
prejudice but without unjustified openings credit.
It should re-open as a healthy essential litigation class on the fate of the country and
the people, accompanying the many labor disputes on several fronts opened with a general
démarche, capable of uniting and reuniting the world of work and able to change the '
political agenda of the government and to influence his decisions. And this should be the
common line of all the CGIL and its categories.
Now for us it is still divided into classes, and a country, no recognition of the social
composition of his people, is an abstract entity; left and right are not and can not be
equal, and the distinctions between them are not exceeded. The ideals as a reference,
value orientation in the choices, in designing a project, in indicating the subject and
the reference classes, remain fundamental antidote to populism and pragmatism that decides
on day-to-day problems without a vision perspective.
Europe, with its austerity policies, the question remains for all the Italian and European
Union. In 2000, Brussels launched the Lisbon Agenda, measures to make the EU "the
knowledge economy, the most competitive and dynamic in the world." It 'was a failure. We
should raise the CES in Europe in emergency on many fronts, with widespread unemployment
and rising, a failed policy and uncompetitive economy that is struggling and does not grow
compared to other emerging economies and the most dynamic of the globe.
With equal commitment CGIL it will be in the front row, as it has always been, to oppose
the resumption in a not insignificant part of the world and in Europe of conflicts and
wars that are causing the massacre of thousands of innocent victims, in the absence of a
political role and a new world governance, reaffirming one of its core values, which is
the repudiation of the war, the defense of peace, dialogue, negotiation,
coexistence between nations and peoples and the protection of rights, terrorism,
fundamentalism and barbarism. And to give an adequate response to the tragedy of thousands
of refugees and migrants who lose their lives every day in our seas to escape poverty and
destructive conflicts and look for a different future.
Rome, September 2014
