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1st April 2011, 22:55
Excellent article written by Fabio Damen on the present political situation in Italy:
http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2011-02-21/political-slime-and-crisis-in-italy
As well as all the repercussions that pile onto the working class, crises have a habit of making life difficult for governments. This crisis is no exception, though there are some distinguishing features. Berlusconi’s government is in such great difficulty that even an election is possible or, as the opposition would like, the birth of a transitional government. Its majority is crumbling: giving rise to a series of squalid manoeuvres inside and outside the corridors of power. We’ll have to draw a wide and very merciful veil over the low life — and not just in political terms — of the so-called government in order to go on to analyse the relations of economic and political power which are at the bottom of this crisis.
http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2011-02-21/political-slime-and-crisis-in-italy
As well as all the repercussions that pile onto the working class, crises have a habit of making life difficult for governments. This crisis is no exception, though there are some distinguishing features. Berlusconi’s government is in such great difficulty that even an election is possible or, as the opposition would like, the birth of a transitional government. Its majority is crumbling: giving rise to a series of squalid manoeuvres inside and outside the corridors of power. We’ll have to draw a wide and very merciful veil over the low life — and not just in political terms — of the so-called government in order to go on to analyse the relations of economic and political power which are at the bottom of this crisis.