Italy: 7th national congress of the Slai Cobas independent union ends with the conclusion that it is necessary to build a “strong class union”

Analysis of the crisis. According to the union, the right-wing, the opposition and confederal unions follow joint “strategic lines” aiming, in the end, to maintain the current economic and political system. Yet, according to the union’s analysis, the crisis brought out the weaknesses of Italian capitalism compared with other European countries. Indeed, not only are Italian wages the lowest, women more penalized and regional differences more noticeable, but the sectors are now in direct competition with eastern countries and other “emerging” countries. Slai Cobas thinks it is necessary to draw upon the project of building a “class union and the training of a workers’ party.”
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not only are Italian wages the lowest, women more penalized and regional differences more noticeable, but the sectors are now in direct competition with eastern countries and other “emerging” countries. Slai Cobas thinks it is necessary to draw upon the project of building a “class union and the training of a workers’ party.”

Self-organization system. Since the beginning of the 90s, because of the growing gap between workers’ needs and the structures defended by confederal unions, Slai Cobas la

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