The five days of Calabrian road transport began at night. Five days of struggle that are linked to the ten already experienced on the barricades by the farmers. On the roads, between queues of trucks and tractors, tension is growing. In the garrisons there is a gathering of humanity short of money and hopes. The discontent has now crossed political and trade union boundaries. Yesterday, alongside the logistics and land workers, students also took to the streets in Corigliano Rossano, Lametino and Locride. There is a generation that struggles to recognize itself in the present and tries to change it. It’s not just anger: it’s the feeling that work is no longer enough, that less and less money is coming into homes and that the end of the month has become an uncertain goal. Hence the request to be heard in Rome and in Europe, asking for less rigid policies and greater attention to the social peripheries.
The heart of the South risks coming to a halt, caught between the international crisis, energy tensions and growing costs. The protest by former Ilva workers in front of the Eni refinery in Taranto, which constitutes a strategic infrastructure for the production and distribution of fuels destined for Southern Italy, contributed to leaving numerous Calabrian service stations dry. In Locride, in some plants, diesel in self-service mode has reached 2.50 euros per litre.
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