Victory for Italian Comrades : CARC Party - We have won the struggle against a persecution started with a first prosecution twenty years ago and ended with the eight prosecution on 17 October 2012
We have won the struggle against a persecution started with a first prosecution twenty years ago and ended with the eight prosecution on 17 October 2012
All of us acquitted because no offence was committed! On 17.10.2012 the Court of Assizes of Bologna has put an end to the prosecution on charge of subversive association with terrorist purposes (article 270 bis of the Penal Code) opened nine years ago against the (n)PCI, the CARC Party and the Association for Proletarian Solidarity (ASP) by deputy prosecutor of Bologna Paolo Giovagnoli: all the comrades were “acquitted because no offence was committed”!
The report of what happened in the courtroom is brief, because the comrades decided to not present themselves in Court. The preliminary objections and also the texts cited by comrades’ lawyers were rejected, then the Court accepted only a single witness (indicated by the prosecution), the deputy superintendent of DIGOS (the political police) of Modena Alberto Sola, author of the information that according to him was the base for the prosecution. The diligent Sola began babbling of weapons, economic funds illegally collected, forged documents, occult structure, subversive plans, etc. The Public Prosecutor Gustapane repeatedly asked him if the investigations done lead to gain evidence of his claim and Sola has consistently replied that “no, but ...” “No, but it seemed that they had the intention to ...”. The Public Prosecutor concluded the examination by saying that suspicions are not enough for the charges which the article 270 bis is referred to. We need evidence of effectiveness and relevance of the facts. He stated that also antagonistic ideologies must be accepted otherwise democratic principles are canceled and asked the Court to confirm the judgment of acquittal for lack of concrete evidence. Our lawyers joined him for such request. After retiring for about half an hour, the Assize Court stated for complete discharge.
In the square (near the station of Bologna, one of the landmarks of State slaughters) we denounced that the only real terrorists in our country are the Prime Minister Monti, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, the manager of FIAT Marchionne, the Pope Ratzinger with the retinue of their cronies and accomplices: their weapons of mass destruction are the decrees, the laws, the taxes that steal rights and resources of workers, of all laborers, of pensioners and of all the popular masses. They are the freedom for corporations, the trickle of companies that are closing or delocalizing, layoffs and job insecurity. They are the finances of the Vatican and its banks, the fees that the masses pay for the Vatican who repays with the daily work of moral pollution in order to induce them to resign to this hell on earth. When in our country we shall establish justice truly worthy of the name it will be these people to sit on the benches of the accused to be judged by people’s courts.
We called to participate in the NO Monti Day on 27 October in Rome to oust this illegitimate and illegal government of bloodsuckers who rob the masses, send education and healthcare down the drain, ravage the territory to meet at all costs and in every way the lust for money of a bunch of bankers, financiers, speculators and rich. We called to sign the referendum for defending worker rights, to power the struggle for a “useful and decent work for everybody” because in our country there is an immense work to be done: there are 20 million people who work, we need at least as much to ensure the territory again, to clean up polluted areas, to retrieve and place the public and private buildings, to run decent public services, to produce goods and services necessary to the life of families, companies and for collective uses: these are the great works useful to the community and the country! We called to organize, coordinate and mobilize ourelves to establish an emergency government of of workers and people’s organizations able to launch a General Plan of Work, to eliminate activities harmful to humans and to the environment by converting companies, to abolish the debt (protecting small savers), to put under public control the banks, to nationalize the FIAT and other large enterprises, to establish relationships of solidarity, cooperation and exchange with other countries.
After celebrating the victory with songs and slogans we marched to the station of Bologna to lay a wreath in memory of the victims of 1980 fascist massacre hatched by the state that killed 80 people. We shall struggle for them, too, in order to break the veil of secrecy and complicity that binds together the leaders who pretend to be in charge of finance, clergy, government, armed forces and police, business (the vertices of the Papal Republic) and finally truth will out and we shall do justice!
