Monti will be defeat by democracy

Monti will be defeat by democracy, truth and conscience, more than by taxi drivers!
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Sir,

In reference to Mr. Giugliano's article of Dec. 29 ("Monti needs more than Europe's cheers to hold Rome"), what is being described as "resistances" by a system of "closed shop professions" must be more properly viewed as the passionate effort by forces engaged in an actual democratic resistance against the transformation of Italy from a republic into an oligarchical state. Taxi drivers, pharmacists, newsvendors, shopkeepers - before being workers, are citizens who still enjoy voting rights and who put pressure on a system which – despite the "freezing" of the constitutional process of selection of the Prime minister by a series of national and international forces – is still centered around Parliament and voting rights which these persons still enjoy. This is the primary obstacle to a neo-liberal blueprint aiming at putting the country - with its economic, productive and distributive expressions, both state-owned and shared among a multitude of citizens - in the hands of a financial oligarchy which has domineered upon the nation at least since 1992 (the year of the famous "Britannia" deals).

The second obstacle faced by Mr. Monti is truth. All above mentioned citizen-workers are mobilizing to make their co-citizens clear that the current media campaign is not truthful. Since most television and radio talk-shows do not allow or severely limit a real debate, union organizations and single workers have established a real parallel information system by using the social network, leaflets and word-of-mouth advertising.

The third and last obstacle faced by Monti is represented by that properly human ontological quality called conscience. This is the sea where the River of Truth finds its mouth: it finds it in a few members of Parliament, in some journalists, in many citizens.

Therefore, it is not some magical power by taxi-drivers that is stopping Monti, but this mix of democracy, truth and conscience which is keeping the country still safe from ultimately falling in the hands of financial sharks!

Claudio Giudici
Chairman
Uritaxi (national taxi drivers union), Tuscany region