{"id":2137,"date":"2014-11-27T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2014-11-27T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T21:03:09","slug":"an-injury-to-all-the-class-struggle-is-back-in-italy-roar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAn injury to all\u201d: the class struggle is back in Italy | ROAR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn injury to all\u201d: the class struggle is back in Italy | ROAR Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Renzi\u2019s center-left government intensifies the project of neoliberal restructuring, a wave of self-organized class struggle takes off across Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Back in 2006, Warren Buffet, the notorious billionaire speculator,\u00a0confessed<\/a>during an interview that: \u201cThere\u2019s class warfare, all right, but it\u2019s my class, the rich class, that\u2019s making war, and we\u2019re winning.\u201d Since then, that class warfare has been ever tougher in Italy. Since 2000, real wages have been decreasing, registering an even sharper downturn since the beginning of the crisis in 2007-\u201908. In real terms, wages nowadays are\u00a0as high as in 1990<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, unemployment has skyrocketed. The number of unemployed people was registered at 3.23 million in September 2014. Italy\u2019s jobless rate increased to 12.6 percent in the same month, while its youth unemployment rate (aged 15-24) was\u00a042.9 percent<\/a>. In September 1983, the two rates were respectively 7.5 and 25.9 percent, respectively. The Gini coefficient, the most common measure of economic inequality, has gone back to the same levels of the 1970s. In 2012 it averaged out at\u00a034.9 per cent<\/a>, a level as high as\u00a0in 1979<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But probably, since the beginning of the last economic crisis (2007-08), the most evident indicator of the ongoing class war in Italy has been the\u00a0increasing disposal income<\/a>\u00a0of the bourgeoisie and the steadily decreasing income of the working class, which shows to what extent the crisis has been an opportunity for the rich to\u00a0privatize profits and socialize losses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn injury to all\u201d: the class struggle is back in Italy | ROAR Magazine. As Renzi\u2019s center-left government intensifies the project of neoliberal restructuring, a wave of self-organized class struggle takes off across Italy. Back in 2006, Warren Buffet, the notorious billionaire speculator,\u00a0confessedduring an interview that: \u201cThere\u2019s class warfare, all right, but it\u2019s my class, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1465,425,1464,824],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-class-warfare","tag-inequality","tag-italy","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}