Braccianti and Potere al Popolo march against the dl Cutro. “Schlein? It’s like the rest of the Democratic Party”

Yet Elly Schlein would have liked this colorful procession full of signs. In honor of the principles of intersectional feminism, which places all the others alongside gender discrimination, overturned the “perverse social hierarchies of our time”. In front of the black women, then the men, laborers from all over the world, from Africa to Bangladesh or Pakistan, only in the background the whites, those who support the cause “because – he says Giuliano Granato, spokesman for Potere al Popolo – exploiting immigrants means creating an army of slaves to lower working conditions for everyone, including Italians”. He demonstrates against the Cutro decree which will arrive in the Chamber on Tuesday and which, they say here, “wants to make us illegal by canceling the special protection” which also allows those who are not fleeing war-torn countries to be able to remain in Italy with a status that goes hand in hand with that of refugee. A sign conveys the idea “Nigeria is not a safe country”. From the series: there will be no war, but we don’t want to go back there”. They sing: “Residence permit, immediately!”.

Schlein who fought her main battles on migrants when she was a MEP, but she isn’t thereafter a morning in the Chamber for the (re)vote of the Def, the secretary left for Liguria, an electoral weekend awaits her in view of the administrative ones. And to tell the truth, most of the immigrant laborers who are here don’t even know who he is. The Italians, on the other hand, don’t like it. Giorgio, 60, says: “It’s just a make-up operation, the Democratic Party is always the same party that up to now has voted for war, the Turco-Napolitano made the Minniti-Orlando decreesSchlein on fundamental things is not changing anything”. Granato says the same: “Speak an incomprehensible languageevery time there is a knot, he stutters, with the incinerator as with the war…”. As he speaks a lady interrupts him: “Why on differentiated autonomy? And on health care?”.

Patrick Konde onlytrade union leader and former right-hand man of Aboubakar Soumahoro, the leader of the laborer who entered parliament with boots with Fratoianni and Bonelli, now, after the scandal involving his mother-in-law’s Karibou cooperative, is quoted here with a little shame, he trusts the dem secretary: “We hope you listen to us, there are no contacts, but we are working to build them”.

There is a chaotic but enthralling enthusiasm at the procession. To be able to leave from Piazza dell’Esquilino, the order service of the movement of migrants and refugees takes almost an hour. We need to get everyone in line on via Cavour, and the protesters are as euphoric as they are disorderly. In the meantime, the rally is off the cuff. Choirs, applause and cheers. It is obvious how serious the reasons for the protest are – the deaths in the Mediterranean, the fear of being sent back at any moment to a country from which one has fled – and how much this does not dampen the almost dancing enthusiasm (the South American blockade of the procession actually dances seriously) of the demonstrators. “This is the revolution,” says a delighted Moussa, a 23-year-old Ivorian. He will think about explaining the reasons for the protest to reporters in more detail Stefano De Angelis, USB manager for migrant workers who took part in a meeting at the Viminale this morning: “Since the day after the Cutro decree was issued, the migrant communities have begun to organize themselves to better understand the effects that this could have on their lives. At the moment, we have represented it at the Ministry of the Interior this morning, we have a well-founded fear that the elimination of the special protection will bring tens of thousands of people in the coming months in the irregularity and in the impossibility of being repatriated because many have children born in Italy. This will produce lawsuits and entanglement in the workers’ appeals courts. We have asked for the opening of a technical table “.