Under the slogan “Let’s stop the massacre of lives and rights at work”, the procession organized by the coordination ‘Every day on May 1st’, which brings together the basic trade unions and other movements such as the Gkn Factory Collective and the 16th Assembly, parades in Florence. February, and with them left-wing acronyms, and students. The demonstrators, around a thousand, met in front of the Esselunga construction site in via Mariti, the scene of the accident on 16 February in which five workers lost their lives.
Just before departure a short choral concert with workers’ songs and not only that and some interventions in which the victims at work were remembered, by the workers in via Mariti, whose names were traced with a spray can on the construction site fence, to Luana d’Oraziountil deaths of Suvianafor which a banner calls for “justice”. The procession is circling the neighborhood where the construction site is located and then heading to Piazza Dalmazia where a public meeting will be held. There were many flags of the grassroots unions, of the students’ acronyms and also those of Palestine.
