In the first few days of September it scemed clear that we were heading for a hot autumn in Italy.
Milet cnoa iscil, there were the huge demonstranons at the end of uly against state repression. The anti-globalisation borewicue was constanty an the newspaper headlines of the newspapers for the whole of August. ( In the first days of September, it was appatent tat au tae ingrcorcnts were present for the beginnings of a strong social movement organising itself. This embryonic movement obviousty nau tac capability of putting the Berlusconi gorernment in difficulties.
town, small villages, Social Forums were created, mirroring the Genoa Social Forum which had grown up in the run up stration in July.
These formations grouped togetber various community centres, UHOnS anu pona one sations, as well as a large number people invoived in any organisa.
The initial BUCCU snowca what kreat polental morwent aguinst globarsazion sretu bologna and surin and then 30,000 took part in a major national mobilisation SHEIS! NATO summit in Naples on September 27. has been fully involved in chis course of mobilisations. Its national demonstration which obvistration. demonstration, drew 50,000 people The whole agenda of the morement, has been upset by the events of September 11. It is obviously not straightforward to move globalisation to opposition to war and to the imperialist This shift requires a leap of elaboration and anaiysis on the part of a lange section of those forces who have been front of the mobilisations of the last period. From this point of view the national assembly of the movement, which has been Eu tonu c prales cr cose uch November 9, while there is a tion and interaction of the demonstration Iwo moDHos ho coe mon points Organisation organised by espective platforms the GSF the following day.
The strike has been called opposition to the by the FIOM union which is opposition to ncoliberal policies of both the WTO and of Forum and was an important Confindustria (the actor in the Genoa demon- Chu owCa can become Now the challenge is for mobilisations the morement ac anoD sOny will have crossed another ment and Fiom to identify frontier -concrete forms of co-ordina- unimportant one