From all over Italy to Rome for work and welfare following 'La Via Maestra'

Work, peace, environment, welfare, Constitution: these, in short, are the themes of the 'La Via Maestra' event, which will be held on Saturday in Rome with participation from all over Italy. The mobilization was presented today in Milan, at the Chamber of Labor, by Luca Stanzione, general secretary of the capital's CGIL, Maso Notarianni, Arci president of the metropolis and Angelo Longhi, of the city's Anpi secretariat.

Among the 'chapters' addressed: the poorest and most precarious work, public healthcare and schools in increasingly difficulty, the production system that is losing pieces, the dramatic climate emergency, the unsustainable cost of living. Salaries, healthcare, schools, social security and public services are being cut - it has been reported - to invest tens of billions in rearmament. Finally, the need to defend democracy was discussed: freedom of information must be guaranteed and the right to demonstrate, protest and dissent cannot be considered a problem of public order, it was underlined.

"We are now in the midst of a European economic crisis, with its head in Germany - said Stanzione -. The increase in the cost of energy hits an already suffering industry and, in turn, depresses the Italian supply chains, in particular those of this territory, so linked to Germany for metal-mechanical components. On 17 October we are going to Rome to ask for an alternative economic policy to the one experienced up to now".

"We recognize ourselves in the democratic values of the liberation struggle against Nazi-fascism, values which find affirmation in the Constitution - underlined Notarianni -.

The main path is the Constitution, which brings together peace, work, the environment and gender differences. The time has come to bring together all the themes and all the mobilisations. We have a gigantic problem of wealth redistribution."

"La Via Maestra is doing what the political forces that have the values ​​of the Constitution at heart should do, and that they often struggle to do", observed Longhi.