A little less than a day after yesterday's march, I'd like to raise a question that I understand you’re not engaged with, especially in this virtual context, and I completely understand you, but right now I really don’t care and I’m writing anyway. ABOUT YESTERDAY’S MARCH FOR THE MURDER OF ABD EL SALAM: Two thousand people, mostly workers and USB unions (imagine if the employers' CGIL would participate), and the rest are just generic comrades. Few considering the seriousness of the situation: the assassination of a worker. Not so few considering it happened on Thursday. Mainly there was anger. A lot, a huge amount of anger, but definitely repressed, perhaps too much. Therefore, one could reduce the demonstration to a simple parade for Piacenza, because here, like it or not, many lives are at stake, not just that of the one who was killed. Like Abd El Salam, there are many who are at risk, not only of losing their jobs but even of not being able to survive. And now, almost a day after the march, peaceful and fairly calm by all accounts, who is talking about it?! Only online, writing the usual keywords, there are few articles and/or videos about the march and you have to search for them. You find more about the day before the demonstration, when motorists were warned about the closed traffic and not to leave their cars along the march route, or when shopkeepers were told to watch out for their businesses because there could be “infiltrated” violent ones, oh yes. In short, in the liberal world of rights for all, if someone gets killed in a political context that highlights the contradictions of the very system of work and capital, and you hold a PEACEFUL march, it’s already a lot that they write about your protest’s demands. IF, however, as the cops, bosses, and authorities feared, pandemonium happens the day after, what will they talk about?! About VIOLENCE AND NOTHING ELSE, but perpetrated obviously by the usual troublemakers, who will then of course be discredited by the other attendees of the march and labeled as “fascists”, when it goes well. And down with images and reports of broken windows, tear gas, the injured, maybe burning cars, and having ruined an entire city (not to mention the more fanciful and serious accusations to jail those who challenge the police) and blah blah blah. In short, the alternative EVERY TIME is always and only between silence and infamy, this is the great freedom for those who own nothing, except for their own skin.
