Why is coronavirus killing so many people in Italy?
I Stay At Home
In the warehouses organized by base unions SICobas and ADL Cobas 90% of the workers don't go to work anymore.
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Italy: "We're not Lambs to the Slaughter!" Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
Demonstration and Strike of Peroni Workers at Tor Sapienza (Rome)
On February 29th we (comrades from the CWO and Battaglia Comunista) were at the solidarity demonstration with the warehouse workers of the Italian-Japanese company Peroni in Tor Sapienza, Rome. The workers there are carrying on a bitter struggle for better working conditions which started with a week-long strike.
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout
The article which follows is a translation from Battaglia Comunista 3 (March 2020), paper of our Italian affiliate, the Internationalist Communist Party. Italy has currently one of the worst death rates from coronavirus (4%), higher even than China’s. This despite locking down over a dozen towns in Lombardy, closing all schools and universities throughout the country, banning public gatherings and telling Italians who attend any social gatherings that they should keep one metre in any direction away from the next person.