The "war against the cost of living" is restarting with symbolic initiatives that will now extend to many Italian squares to protest against the dizzying increase in gas and electricity.
A symbolic bonfire where bills can be burned: already on Saturday in Bologna in the central Via Ugo Bassi, a stone's throw from the Two Towers, an initiative organized by the 'Noi Non Pagiamo Emilia-Romagna' campaign took place, promoted by groups of workers to protest against the increases "that we cannot afford to pay - protesters denounced - and we will not pay them".
Dozens of people gathered in front of the Eni Store to start "a protest movement that starts from below".
"Consumption in July expiring in August went from € 670 to € 2,020, and in July I did not work at full capacity. Now that I am working at full capacity. While before I received € 1,300 / 1,400 in bills, if things continue like this I will get around 5 thousand euros, and it is unsustainable for a business like mine ", says Oberdan, a baker who risks" leaving three employees at home "and" closing the shutters "due to price increases.
After the bonfire, a small procession marched up under the Two Towers to promote the 'We don't pay' campaign, distributing flyers.
No to expensive bills also in Modena while on 3 October,
on the occasion of the International Day to Fight the Crisis and the Cost of Living, the Usb announced sit-outs throughout Italy.
"We will be in front of the major energy companies and the offices of their major shareholders - explains a note - starting with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti".
The surge in the cost of bills could also soon come to the attention of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, which has been investigating the rise in the cost of gasoline for months.
The basic unitary union will file a complaint in the offices of piazzale Clodio "against all the conducts put in place by the companies that trade gas, electricity and petroleum products to the detriment of the community, speculating on the differences between what they paid for raw materials and the price to which they are reselling them to us ".
The initiatives of these hours represent "ideally" the continuation of what has already happened, patchy, in some Italian squares in recent days.
Last Friday demonstration in Turin attended by about 200 people in front of the Iren headquarters: the aim was to return the complaint forms and self-suspension from the payment of district heating bills to the counter.
In the same hours in Milan hundreds of young farmers took to the streets who chanted slogans against expensive bills which in some cases, they denounced, "exceeded 500% in terms of cost increase".
On 5 September last mobilization in Umbria with bills symbolically burned in the square by entrepreneurs, the tertiary sector, but also for hotels, restaurants, campsites, bakeries-pastry shops and wholesalers.