«One hundred workers in each workshop wait for the sound of the siren, the machinery and engine factory echoes, the silence of a thousand workers is louder». On the notes of Stalingrad of the Stormy Six, the protesters arrived at Marghera from all over the region to reiterate their no to wars they are welcomed in Piazzale Giovannacci.
The call to mobilize came from Permanent Committee against wars and racism of Marghera, membership was collective: from the Young Palestinians to the Basic Trade Union Union (USB), but also the Communist Youth Front, the Communist Workers’ Party, Cobas and the association of health workers for Gaza.
They wave the red flags, but also the Palestinian ones, someone hangs the red flag around their neck or backpack peace, like a cloak capable of giving special powers. They sing while waiting, they shout slogans at the moment of departure, the megaphones in the hands of the many young people leading their groups with bright eyes and angry expression of those who want to shout their dissent with all their voices regarding government and international policies.
“We are here to say that it is absurd that after the massacres of the past, the world still stands there and watches” explain the Young Palestinians, «people must take history into their own hands and fight. The war also passes through universities, through governments that invoke laws and democracy when we protest, but don’t do so when it comes to sending weapons and enforcing workers’ rights.”
Two weights, two measures, he also reiterates it the health workers association for Gaza: «We would like to do more, such as bringing patients here from Gaza, but it is extremely complicated. Why did the Ukrainians arrive faster instead?» they ask, knowing the answer in their hearts, which they explain a few seconds later: «because they are easier to integrate». Skin color, they say, creates wars and victims of series A and series B.
Peter Basso of the Permanent Committee, specifies that the demonstration is «against all wars, in the Middle East as in Ukraine. Against NATO and the war economy, in which state spending will be increasingly oriented towards rearmament to the detriment of social, education and healthcare”. Also for this reason, the procession made up of five hundred people had its final stop there Fincantieri«which has the war sector as its main production sector, moreover even at the recent inauguration of a tourist ship there was talk of warships» continues Basso.
The midday sun makes the banners shine, the chants do not diminish, from “free free Palestine” to “the dead at work cry out for revenge, Confindustria you are cursed» up to «only the master gets rich, let’s fight together against the oppressor». The different ones children those present look with amazed eyes at the game of flags waving towards the sky, the colors that blend together, their hand in that of their parents, who also demonstrate for them.
