No freedom without struggle against injustice says Landini

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 30 - The leader of Italy's largest and most left-wing union CGIL, Maurizio Landini, said Saturday that struggling against injustice was key to freedom, speaking one day after a general strike proclaimed by CGIL and UIL against the 2025 budget bill.
    Landini told a national congress of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI) that he had given as a gift to Premier Giorgia Meloni a copy of Albert Camus's 'The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt' when they had met to discuss the budget bill earlier this month.
    "The sense of that book, which sparked an uproar, was to give once again centrality to the freedom of people.
    "If a person does not rebel against injustice, that person doesn't exist because they are cancelled.
    "That's what I think", said Landini, who told a rally in Bologna on Friday, organized as part of the general strike, that everyone must participate in the fight against injustice as the country needs to be turned upside down.
    "Today, democracy is not questioned by people demonstrating for their rights but by those in Parliament who are trying to approve a decree that calls for security but reduces people's freedom and space", he said. Addressing the demonstration in Bologna on Friday, which CGIL said attracted some 50,000 protesters, Landini said that "social revolt means saying that everyone of us must not turn the other way in front of injustice, on the contrary, it is necessary to promote the idea that we can change the situation only be working together.
    "Today begins a journey of mobilization to turn this country upside down", he noted, saying the government wanted to question the right to strike.
    "Parliament is discussing a decree - which is called security decree and we are asking for it to be withdrawn - that vies to turn strikes, road blocks, squatting in factories when they close into crimes", said the leader of CGIL, denouncing a "serious attempt at an authoritarian turn that questions the freedom to exist and people's freedom". (ANSA).