YES WE CA$H!- Welfare struggles and the precarity in Italy by Pemulwry on Feb 3 2010

An interview with a new campaign for a social wage in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, formed in the wake of Onda Anomala movement last year. The current phase of welfare struggles (in countries that have welfare to struggle over) is of defensive struggle against their erosion by neo-liberal re-imposition of work and privatisation.

However, Italy is potentially moving in another direction as the crisis has highlighted the problems of welfare with even liberal commentators advocating the extension of welfare benefits. Yes We Cash is a regional movement, pushing for the creation of a social wage in Emilia-Romagna (in North-West of the country.)

When did YWC start?

http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/

Italy: the Wave, Cobas and social centres against the G14 - Mar 30 2009

Last Saturday - 28th March 2009 - sixty thousand people walked into the main squares of Rome against the G14 on welfare and social support measures which started on Sunday. The demonstration has been described as unauthorized by the Roman council and violated the protocol on demonstrations recently approved also by the council and the main Italian unions.

In fact, according to the protocol, demonstrations must follow a path decided by the council in order not to create traffic jams. However, after the violent fights between the police and the students from the Roman university La Sapienza on 18th March, Cgil stated it might consider not to abide by it.