CeJ <jann...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote this to someone on Marxmail list, but here it is for this list, > fwiw:
CB: Thanks > > My take after reading up. I'm still speculating, I have to follow up > on just how far along the Messina Straits bridge project is: > > (1) The only way Berlusconi stayed in power was a coalition with NA. > > (2) If the NA had its way, all foreigners would be run out of Italy. > And the South would be run by martial law. CB: It's the ghost of Hannibal threatening Rome again. > > (3) Most of these migrant workers are in the north, but the > anti-immigrant, racist politics and the bad economy have created an > exodus of workers. > > (4) Some of the migrants went south hoping to get work on the Messina > Straits bridge project (and to do that you would have to go through > crime syndicates on both Sicily and Calabria. > > (5) Berlusconi isn't particularly anti-Ndrangheta, but favors some > groups over others. > > (6) The crime syndicates are hardly united, much of their violent > crime is when they turn on each other. CB: See _The Godfather_ They are out to make a buck, > and if cooperation gets it, then they cooperate. If not, they can turn > violent. > > (7) The South, which already has high unemployment, was already filled > up with a lot of Albanians and other E. Europeans, many hoping to get > in on the bridge project. > > (8) I wouldn't be surprised if it included migrant-on-migrant > violence, such as Albanians attacking Africans. > > (9) The Africans in the particular area concerned ended up in the > worst possible jobs waiting for the bridge project--fruit harvesting > and are fed up. > > (10) Many Southerners would choose the Ndrangheta over Berlusconi, > Rome, the Vatican or the Northern Alliance. That is the way it has > been for a long long time. Just wish they had the communist and > anarcho-syndicalist alternatives (outside of Naples and some other > cities that is difficult). > > CJ > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
