A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, Il Cantiere #16: Union, Equality - Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism -- Alessandro Granata * (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The requests that come from below, even if they come from a simple group of 
members, must be listened to. ---- They must be listened to, mediated, understood 
and must also find an answer. ---- We cannot be satisfied with a semblance of 
facade democracy. There is no democracy if there is no right to dissent. If you 
can not exercise a right of criticism that is also implemented. ---- A Thesis 
needs an Antithesis to become a Synthesis and a synthesis needs an antithesis 
again and so on in a virtuous circle of normal democratic dialectics. ---- 
Substantial and non-formal democracy we must practice between comrades and comrades.
Right to be heard and not a dogma of infallibility --- (this has been up to the 
Popes since 1870 and if they are always right, it would be better not to talk to 
us) accept criticism as an increase in knowledge and possibilities and not as 
lese majesty. This is the basis of the scientific method. The possibility of verify-
Only in this way can a good synthesis of political documents be achieved, 
obtaining a unitary and plural management.
Even if the internal opposition continues to play its role of antithesis and 
constant verification. Another key point:
But should a trade union only manage internal democracy? Or worry only about the 
contract? A syndicate of Knowledge like ours, perhaps dealing with Philosophy, 
Theories of Power, political theory, elaborates, elaborates Knowledge and... 
without knowledge and cognition of the mistakes made (because we have made 
mistakes, and when we are wrong it is good to say it- we are not infallible like 
the Popes-) and,,, I repeat, without knowledge and understanding of the mistakes 
made, there is and will never be a better contract, social justice, inclusion, 
acceptance.
Freedom equality and sisterhood, Equality what a beautiful word!
Pietro Gori so admirably outlines it "Because we love equality they called us 
criminals but we are workers and bosses we don't want" -Pietro Gori 1895 Amor Ribelle
Today we are almost afraid to pronounce this word, it is replaced with the word 
equity, a concept that does not belong to our history. Equity is when the poor 
man who remains poor has enough to feed himself, cover himself and live in his 
little house. The rich man remains the rich man with his villa and his beautiful 
capital. Because, in the liberal vulgate, he deserves it.
Merit is another pernicious idea derived from the business model that you want to 
apply to society and to the whole school. The best have more rights, but the best 
are usually those at the top of the social pyramid, they deserve to be the best.
But...
The values we believe in are very different. They descend from the first 
international, they have roots in the social democratic, socialist, communist and 
libertarian family.
They all have one point in common: the overcoming of capitalism as the creator of 
a society divided into classes, capitalists and workers. Exploiters and 
exploited. Sometimes the exploited earn relatively well, but remain so because 
the value of their work does not go entirely to them, but to increase the profit 
that goes to capital.
We contrast the social, economic and ecological cost of the right to exploit, the 
right to dismissal and precariousness in all our sectors to business law and the 
risk of business law, a category now assumed by what defines itself as a 
progressive camp. .
And then, even a school and an education that acts as a social elevator is not a 
concept that should belong to us, we must aim for a school of free and equal people.
We should rethink a didactic that not only contrasts dispersion and failure and 
effectively opposes the alternation between school and work, the "project 
factory", the bureaucratization of the trade, but we must also rethink a didactic 
that educates to our values, of inclusion, of cooperation , of equality, of the 
enhancement of the individual paths of each of us, abolishing merit. For the 
integral development of the personality, foresee a cycle of permanent education. 
For an evaluation that goes beyond the standardization criteria linked to the 
numerical grade.
Whether the center right won or the center left lost on 25 September is a debate 
that doesn't interest me too much. A concrete fact is that the votes of the 
centre-right are more or less equal. Perhaps the institutional left, not 
representing the demands for struggle and improvement that come from what should 
be the reference political subject: workers, the unemployed and unemployed, 
pensioners, students has completely lost the trust of these sectors.
The political left has betrayed them all. The union doesn't have to do that.
What is a general axiom, i.e. that male and female workers have no friendly 
governments, in the Health and Education Sectors, manifests itself in all its 
drama, in fact we observe in perfect continuity with previous governments 
policies of cuts and systematic demolition of spending publish.
There are no friendly governments and it is useless to wait for political sides, 
to moderate requests, to submit to governments of national unity. The union must 
be autonomous from political parties and reverse any subordination. If we want to 
practice anti-fascism consistently we must be anti-capitalists we must regain 
possession of our theoretical baggage. Don't let us be duped by the ideas of the 
ruling class. Like the productivist-business school.
Forming companions in the light of our values, with the clear intention on the 
one hand of contractually defending our reference categories, on the other hand 
forming the new generations based on the teaching principles that consistently 
derive from our values, giving them the only competence that is really valid for 
their life, the ability to imagine a future and be able to change society in 
order to achieve it. Together.
We must have a clear vision of where we are going or we will go astray along the way.
We are here to remind our category who we were, who we are and where we are going.
We were the first category of this union that has given permanent representation 
to the precarious by creating precarious coordination for universities and 
schools by integrating them into the governing bodies. We have occupied Faculty 
Councils and Statute Commissions in the rectorates with the flag of the FLC, 
alongside students and with research precarious workers. We suspended ourselves 
in the void or on the roofs.
Contains the worst aspects of the Gelmini Law and almost blocked "The good school".
We want the FLC to continue on its path of dialogue and discussion not only on 
issues strictly related to contractual matters, not only with the area of 
document 2, but also with all the requests that come from the realities of school 
and university movements who are fighting for individual and social and 
environmental rights. Feminisms, ecologisms, pacifism and antimilitarism. To 
continue to be a competent and combative FLC. Let's hold hands in these sad days, 
Let's not get lost along the way, Come on!

* Speech at the regional congress FLC CGIL Tuscany

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