Carlo Giuliani commemoration. second anniversary of Genoa

dublin | anti-capitalism | press release Thursday July 17, 2003 04:16 by anti-capitalist - Fallen comrades

Saturday 19th, 2pm at Central Bank. going to Italian embassy

Carlo Giuliani was murdered by the Italian state on July 20th 2001 while protesting against the G8 summit in Genoa. Soon we may too get to experience the repressive violence of the police during these summits. On this, his second anniversary, we are commemorating Carlo's murder through our continued struggle. Meet 2pm central bank, Saturday 19th.

Keeping the struggle alive

Why are we commemorating Carlo Giuliani today? Carlo Giuliani was murdered by the Italian police during the massive demonstrations against the G8 in Genoa two years ago. His murder provides us with just a tiny glimpse of what the rich bastards who rule us are capable of when we start to resist them.

The same rich bastards who sent the Italian police to run amok on the streets of Genoa have implemented policies that have ravaged the third world. You may believe you have nothing to do with “them” but don’t be conned: you have more in common with a Somalian nurse than an Irish banker. We have to tie our struggles together. In Ireland, we are resisting the bin tax and workers are rebelling against the constraints of “social partnership”, while in other countries people are fighting for the right to organise in their workplace against dangerous working conditions, crap pay and child labour. Around the world people have realised that “business as usual” comes at too high a price.

And who’s feeling the pinch now that the hospitals are shutting down? Not the Foxrock fucker, that’s for sure…you see it’s never the wealthy, the ruling class, that suffers its ordinary people that get it in the neck. It’s our blood that’s oiling their machines- we end up fighting their wars, paying for their private jets and working ourselves to death to maintain their juicy profit margins. They are willing to kill to keep it that way and that is what happened in Genoa to Carlo Giuliani.

We want to remember the part Carlo Giuliani took in the struggle for a free and just society, a society where the people participate directly in the decisions that affect them and enjoyed the full fruits of their labour instead of being forced to survive on tiny percentage of it. You wouldn’t shut down your own hospitals, would you?

Maybe you’ve noticed that you actually have something in common with workers in the third world, but you believe that you couldn’t possibly have anything in common with Carlo Giuliani. He was a “violent” protester as the newspapers and the politicians like to put it. Since when did the global elite care about violence? How violent is it to smash bank windows compared to the criminal profiteering off poverty, hunger and war? The media will ALWAYS divide us into “good” and “bad” protesters and even within the “movement” there are those who think it is more important to criticise those engaged in property damage than state violence. But those of us who believe that the anti-capitalist movement needs to explore every possible form of resistance available to us have a responsibility to remember what Carlo stands for – Class War.

Now they want us to be passive, so that they can rule us from above. But don’t be afraid to organise and get active, you’re not alone and you’re not powerless. Look at history across the world, it’s the “little people” that changed things, from the 1913 Strike & Lockout in Dublin to recent events in Argentina, we have the capability to defend ourselves and our interests.

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