Speech at the first provincial congress of the Left 
Buongiorno a tutti, io sono Marco Varda e vi parlo a nome del circolo "Alto Canavese".
Care compagne, cari compagni,quelli che viviamo sono tempi durissimi. Una grave crisi economica ( che ancora non accenna a terminare), la più grave dai tempi della Grande Depressione, ancora attanaglia il mondo.
Essa è stata la cristallizzazione ed il risultato di trenta anni di rivoluzione neoliberista, in cui le teorie economiche della Scuola di Chicago sono state applicate ovunque: esse possono essere well summarized in four main slogans companies and privatize public services, cut public spending, reduce the share of labor income, and increase the profits in national income.
These theories and models they are based, are presented as perniciously "scientifically neutral" and objective, while all other strands of economic thought are accused of being "ideological" and "outdated." From that pulpit is preaching!
international institutions like the World Bank and IMF, who were born to help long-term investment and to prevent economic crises, in order to avoid the serious social costs, have become all the effects of usury and taxation agencies in the pay policy of the creditor countries. The drastic neo-liberal economic policies imposed by them have increased everywhere hunger and unemployment, in some cases were also accompanied by the loss of freedom and democracy, human rights.
For these economists that freedom and the rights of individuals are less important than an efficient economic system. It reminds me of certain communities, which claim to individual liberty mean to claim "bourgeois freedom", less important than achieving equality and economic development.
nation states, as a result of the extensive privatization, have lost a lot of influence and today the governments, both national and supranational, are at the mercy of large multinational groups and unnamed hedge funds, which are able, with their sudden movements and planned to bring down whole economies. Think about the case of Greece, where the action of speculators has literally "blow" to the economy of that country, making it ready for the recruitment of a new dose of "healthy" neoliberalism.
The European model of welfare state is deeply in crisis in all EU countries, wherever their budgetary constraints, also caused by stagnant economy for years, and the strict economic parameters dictated by technocracy European governments push to cut and privatize essential services such as education and healthcare. Italy
In this dramatic picture is combined with an insidious drift democratic, with the country largely in the hands of the charismatic Berlusconi's populism (completely turned to pursue personal interests and more and more upset by questions of justice, which are now so numerous as to do more " news, "even when serious) and the secessionist Northern League and fascistic.
And it is precisely this last political movement that we all sincere supporters of the constitutional democratic system born of the Resistance, we must look carefully and fear. It
in 2008 has greatly shown to achieve a consensus "cross" pick up votes from both the left disappointed, both by voters right National Alliance, for which the PDL did not have the same appeal and the same firmness on issues like immigration and security . In the last regional
the league also surpassed in terms of consensus, the PDL in the Veneto, and has reached double figures in the "red" Emilia and collects important consensus in Tuscany and Umbria, traditional strongholds "communist".
When the charismatic leader Berlusconi will be released (hopefully soon) from the political scene, it is reasonable to assume a further leap forward in the league, with consequences that are not in grado di immaginare per il nostro Paese.
Il nostro compito allora, è quello di costruire una forza politica in grado di affrontare queste due grandi tematiche, quella economica e quella democratica, con precisi obiettivi e strategie.
Sul versante economico io credo che sia poco utile traccheggiare e prendere tempo, accampando come scusante la necessità che i cambiamenti avvengano a livello europeo. Non possiamo aspettare che le soluzioni cadano dal pero “europeo”. E’ ora di cominciare a darsi da fare a livello nazionale, di fare dell’Italia motore del cambiamento in Europa.
Come ci sta dimostrando ancora una volta l’ondata progressista che ha conquistato l’America Latina, una terza via tra socialismo and capitalism, the so-called. Development economics, and just today.
E 'need to ensure that all sensitive and strategic sectors of the economy (energy, telecommunications) will return in a complete state control.
E 'need to adopt expansionary policies and demand, focusing on the stabilization of public debt, bearing in mind that the implementation of such policies to be implemented, it could take very drastic measures, such as the nationalization of some banks (like occurred in the U.S. and Great Britain). The left, or issue the exit from the wild capitalism or not.
On the political front, our movement non ha oggi obiettivamente la forza, elettorale e mediatica, per sostenere una collocazione politica nazionale autonoma, come p. es. quella della Linke in Germania. E’ quindi assolutamente necessario giocare bene le poche carte che abbiamo a disposizione: un radicamento territoriale non disprezzabile ed un portavoce nazionale carismatico e vincente, che ha già dato numerose prove del suo valore: valore politico, culturale, amministrativo, elettorale. Questo portavoce nazionale si chiama Niki Vendola.
Per cui dobbiamo continuare ad insistere, anche in maniera del tutto strumentale, sulla richiesta di elezioni primarie di coalizione (richiesta che definisco "strumentale" poichè la coalizione ancora non c’è). Dobbiamo assolutamente avoid any truce with the Democratic Party about technical governments: if Berlusconi's government falls, for us, not represented in Parliament, there must be only one way: the election immediately. We make no excuses and no movement of the palace roof, is all too obvious that even an eventual reform of the electoral law will be made for the consumption of today who can actually do it. Certainly not to our benefit or our country.
The last step I would like to dedicate it to us and how we are building our party. I would like to remind all the comrades that the strings of power will not go away: think of Louis Rich, who retired with more than 4000 preferences as the Socialist Party did not make a quorum at the last regional.
climber may even die.
So I ask, on behalf of the club Alto Canavese, that the election of provincial assemblies, regional and national convention delegates to take place on the basis of open lists of the provincial assembly and the audience is composed of one delegate per 10 members. Good
Congress at all!
