Text of an interview given on the 15th of December 1974
to the fascist weekly ‘Il Borghese’
by Professor Paride Stefanini,
director of the second polyclinic at the University of Rome.
After the dispute that was controlled by the trade unions,
a subversive fringe of the extra-parliamentary left inserted itself into the struggle
and bypassed the trade unions themselves.
This small group began to agitate.
And most of the nurses and porters trusted them.
We had wild demonstrations, strikes for no reason,
insults to the medical class.
I have been denounced as the most baron among barons.
It is a definition that I do not like and which I find offensive,
because I am not a baron, but a prince of surgery.
During one of these strikes I was recognised by the revolutionaries
who started shouting: "Thief Stefanini, thief Stefanini."
Outside the polyclinic no one has ever called me a thief.
If that were to happen, I would file a complaint.
But God knows how many complaints have been made against this collective.
But there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.
We haven't even called the police, because they never came.
But those on the top set the example.
In 1969 the doctors went on strike
for the first time, my assistants and I were disgusted,
because I didn't think that a doctor
could resort to a strike to make a point.
If we have reached the point where even doctors are starting to go on strike,
how can one then condemn the nurses and porters
if, given their low cultural level, they strike in such a brutal manner?
We are, in a certain sense, disarmed
and there are many situations similar to ours.
And although in the hospital patients' lives are at stake,
elsewhere the very life of our country is at stake.
Text of the justification for refusing to grant bail
to comrade Daniele Pisano,
charged with resistance to a public official,
violence, offence and seditious assembly.
The exceptionally high level of threat to society posed by the defendant
is derived not only from the misuse that he made
of his previously obtained bail,
not only by the fact that he constantly disturbs
the smooth functioning of a polyclinic,
but also by the fact that he
escalates the demands of the trade unions,
which themselves are based on the constitution,
and thereby creates dangerous situations in a particularly sensitive environment,
with accidents and violence which are caused purposefully
and which clearly appear to be ends in themselves and provocative.
On the compliant requests of the Public Prosecutor.
the application for bail for Pisano Daniele is dismissed.
Signed:
Dr Giorgio Buogo, examining magistrate of the Court of Rome,
dispenser of six arrest warrants and 105 criminal proceedings notices
against workers of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome.
The Polyclinic Assembly at Umberto I of Rome
presents
Polyclinic, a workers' rally.
Leaflet from the 27th of November 1973.
Comrade workers, patients! At the Umberto I Polyclinic
there are two types of hospital, two types of sick people,
two types of workers.
On the one hand, there is the teaching hospital
with the various university clinics.
On the other hand, there is the care hospital.
The teaching hospital should serve to produce new doctors
and thus serve research and experimentation.
In fact, this hospital is the private property
of the university's barons,
who use it as a backyard for their private clinics.
They accept and reject patients according to their will.
They maintain old boys' networks, and accept bribes.
And they constantly leave entire wards empty.
In the care hospital, on the other side,
the sick are piled up in the wards and in the corridors,
and suffer the full impact of the state of disservice,
inefficiency and corruption, Which is destroying our health facilities.
As workers of the teaching hospital
we are often employed without any qualification
and we are forced to take charge of entire departments,
blackmailed by the barons of the university.
And many of us worked for years on short-term contracts
whose renewals depend on the benevolence of the medical barons.
As workers of the university clinics,
we are employees of the Ministry of Education
and our salary is half that of of workers in the care hospital
who together with us perform the same work,
in the same hospital.
Despite our requests,
for years the union has only made promises to solve our problems,
but it has not managed to enforce even the most insignificant goals.
Despite our requests,
the union has never organised a united fight
amongst workers of the teaching hospital,
and workers of the care hospital.
The traditions of hospital workers' struggle and the gains enforced
on an economic and contractual level
are for us, as university hospital workers,
a heritage that is yet to be realised.
We therefore decided to go it alone, organising the struggle at the grassroots
and refusing any delegation.
The empowerment of each worker
is the only guarantee of victory.
When the barons
entered the wards
they looked like the eternal fathers
and all doctors tried to get close to them,
they ran after them.
Leaflet of the 1st of December 1973. "Comrade workers,
many participated in the clinic assemblies
that we organised in the previous days.
Many clinic assemblies have started the struggle independently.
With each passing day, more clinics are joining the struggle.
An increasing amount of workers' assemblies demonstrate
a determined will to move forward and organise themselves independently.
Yesterday's general assembly saw the solid participation
of more than 1,000 workers and established a platform of demands.
But it is important to have clarified our relation with the union.
No one will be given a mandate.
The only decision-making body is the assembly.
The assembly shall meet every day and all workers shall
participate in it directly.
We want real unity with all other workers in the health sector.
The only instrument existing today to achieve our goal
is the regionalisation of the healthcare structure.
Among the barons of medicine, the university ones are the most dangerous.
Hidden behind the neutrality of science, they treat the sick as guinea pigs.
They use clinics for their own dirty interests,
They blackmail staff and reproduce doctors that are mere pill traders.
Regionalisation means taking away the power over the staff from these people
and beginning to dismantle the teaching hospital.
The unions are saying and writing that the demand for regionalisation
of the entire polyclinic and for workers' management of health facilities,
are corporate objectives and a lost cause.
The union bureaucrats propose instead: an increase in overtime,
an increase in the risk allowance and the implementation of law 775
the draft of which has been sleeping in drawers for three years already.
Against the barons, against the speculation on the back of the patients,
against the exploitation of workers, we call for the regionalisation of the hospital!
Leaflet from the 5th of December 1973.
Comrades.
The form of struggle decided by the assembly was that of working only the single shift
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
We are treated like civil servants and, therefore, we will work like
all the other civil servants.
Two years ago, the union called workers to use the same form of struggle,
but immediately backed down for fear of the prefect's injunction.
Now this form of struggle
has become unacceptable to the union,
but we will not let ourselves be frightened by the prefecture.
The right to fight according to our decisions
will not be up for negotiation with anyone.
University rectors and doctors try to blackmail us
under the pretext of caring for the sick.
Is it caring of these doctors to dedicate to the sick people on the wards
only the time that they have left free
from working in their private clinics?
Is it caring to use the patients to make a name for themselves
and exploit the workers in the filthy wards
of the research hospitals?
Is it caring to administer pills without searching for the causes of the disease,
thereby merely patching up the sick workers
so that the bosses outside the hospital can continue to exploit them better?
Is it ‘teaching’ to produces doctors who ignore the reality of the factories
and of the ghetto neighbourhoods, covered by the veil of neutral science
that only serves the interests of the bosses?
When we workers complained to the judiciary
about the absurd conditions in the hospital, the thefts, the cheating,
the beds that are left empty in order to force the sick to use private clinics...
... the rector never showed up.
Now that we question the teaching hospital,
the power, the cronyism, the exploitation of sick workers,
only now the reader weeps over the fate of the patients.
But we will fight together with the patients.
And it’s not us, but the bosses who are the culprits!
Leaflet from the 15th of December 1973.
Hospital comrades,
with yesterday's combative march the workers in the clinics
and university institutes,
demonstrated all their strength and their organisation.
Leaflet from 20th of December 1973.
The assembly of hospital workers, which met on the 12th of December 1973,
together with a delegation of university workers,
decided to establish a general meeting
for Thursday, 20th of December 1973.
We want it to be ...
the unity of workers of our entire hospital. We want it now.
Leaflet from the 30th of December 1973.
The staff of the orthopaedic clinic, which met in an assembly on the 29th of December 1973,
voted unanimously to join the protest
with all other struggling workers
at the clinics and universities.
Leaflet from 16th of December '73.
Worker comrades.
This is manifesto text that the assembly decided to print
1000 copies of, and for which it has collected 58,000 lira to date.
The manifesto will be ready this evening and the workers will stick it up
in their neighbourhoods.
Impossible situations at the polyclinic. Sick people are treated like cannon fodder,
Workers are divided and subjected to constant blackmail by the barons.
This is the situation
that university workers experience every day.
The authorities have promised us only words, thus ignoring
the workers' demands.
That is why we’ve decided to advance the struggle
and to work only from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m, like other civil servants.
They are forced into lower paid civil servants’ contracts
while performing hospital duties.
Proletarian comrades.
This is the struggle of all workers who fall ill
and are patched up in hospitals, ready to be exploited again.
Leaflet from the 22nd of December 1973.
Worker comrades.
The assembly from the 21st of December 1973 decided
to reiterate in a leaflet
the mode of struggle to which all workers must adhere to.
This necessity also arises,
due to the fact that day by day our strength is increasing
and that many other workers have joined us
to carry on this winning struggle.
Firstly: single shift from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m, day off on all public holidays.
No votes will be taken midweek.
Secondly: assembly every day at ten o'clock.
Thirdly: refusal to do tasks for which we are not paid.
That is, porters who perform nurses’ tasks, should stop doing that and only do porters’ tasks.
The same applies to caretakers who perform duties as technicians, etc.
Should the administration want to implement
its threats, all workers united will be able to demonstrate their strength,
and their organisation.
Leaflet from the 5th of January 1974. 48-hour strike
from 7 a.m. on the 8th of January 1974 to 7 a.m. on the 10th.
The unitary assembly of workers
at clinics and university institutes
and hospital workers at the Policlinico Umberto I have decided:
to proclaim 48 hours of strike
starting at 7 a.m. on the 8th of January 1974.
Strike particulars:
Full strike of all personnel
of the clinics and institutes, including caretakers, doormen, etc.
Ensuring the following services:
Central emergency room: fully staffed.
The porters refrain from cleaning.
The operating room of the emergency room
is on call and guarantees one porter per shift.
The emergency department on call day
guarantees one nurse and one porter per shift.
Resuscitation Centre: nurses are fully staffed
Paediatric Emergency Room: strike by all workers
given that the nuns from the convent are covering the shift.
Obstetrics First Aid:
one nurse and one midwife per shift.
Emergency room, ophthalmology and ENT: one nurse per shift.
The assembly resolves that any decision
with respect to the development of the strike
may only be taken by the assembly and no one else.
Free outpatient clinics - Forms of worker control
"Sticks in the spokes of the new hospital."
Leaflet from the 10th of January 1974.
Communiqué from the assembly of the university workers of the Policlinico
The Assembly that met this morning considered the communiqué issued
by the Ministry of Education of the 9th of January 1974 and decided as follows:
total rejection of any partial solution that aims at solving the problem
of the division of the polyclinic workers
only from a purely economic point of view,
and that effectively leaves the power of the barons
of the university clinics unchanged,
and thus the absurd conditions of the treatment for the patients.
"The Rector accuses the socialists."
Leaflet from the 12th of January 1974.
Workers, proletarians, sick people united in the struggle.
Comrades, our struggle is all the more important
because for some time now there has been dialogue between bosses and trade unions
and reformist parties that for us workers,
with the social truce before and the energy crisis today,
can only mean to say:
more work, less money, steep rise in all prices.
"Polyclinic paralysed"
Leaflet from the 19th of January 1974.
General strike on Monday!
Comrade workers.
Yesterday's combative assembly proclaimed a 24-hour strike
for Monday the 21st of January 1974, with the clear intent of demonstrating to the administration
and its various ministers
who claim to be interested in solving our problems,
that we workers do not trust anyone
and that it will only be our struggle
and our combative attitude that will make our goals successful.
"Retaliation at the polyclinic and protest strike."
Leaflet from the 2nd of February 1974.
The university workers' assembly at the polyclinic,
with regards to the communiqué of the board of administration of the Pius Institute,
which, on the one hand, accepts the transfer of university workers
to the regional contract and the institute, but, on the other hand, proposes
the possibility of entrusting the whole polyclinic
to the power of the university barons,
for example by getting rid of the halls intended for sick people,
decides to proclaim a strike for Wednesday the 6th of February 1974.
There's no going back and the barons’ power games
won't stop our struggles.
"Besieged Polyclinic.”
Leaflet from the 8th of February 1974.
Workers, here at the Polyclinic and in every clinic
there are departments where they abusively ask for payment for medical tests and results.
We workers already pay too much for such a lousy health system.
We can no longer accept that a public hospital
charges for outpatient services,
that enriches the barons on our skin;
that the proletarians are treated like cannon fodder
on which to experiment new drugs.
Yes to free outpatient clinics, no to the pay rooms!
"Acute tension and provocations at the Polyclinic."
Leaflet from the 15th of February 1974.
Free outpatient clinics!
First hard blow to the power of the barons.
Comrades, workers.
We have finally managed to inflict a first hard blow
to the power of the barons and their false university science.
Our fight for the free clinics
has been victorious!
That is why we must ensure the maintenance of this victory.
No to the fraudulent law - Clash with the trade unions.
"Tension at the Polyclinic - Admissions blocked."
Leaflet from the 23rd of February 1974.
No to the fraudulent law
designed in secret by the barons and their servants.
Fellow workers,
the government, led by President Rumor,
after having demonstrated its anti-worker nature
with the price increases for food and petrol
and of all those consumer goods which are indispensable to us proletarians,
have introduced a single law for non-medical university staff.
This article establishes an allowance - effective from the 1st of March - to equalise
our economic conditions to that of hospital staff.
Our enforcement of free clinics
can and must be an indication of struggle,
and for that we must strengthen vigilance and organisation.
Firstly: all workers assisted by a mutual institution
do not have to pay anything for outpatient visits and test results.
Secondly, the same right Can be claimed by the unemployed.
Thirdly: those without assistance must pay the lowest price
charged to the mutual bodies.
Fourthly: the number of daily visits must be increased.
Fifthly: we need a sufficient number of clinical examinations for outpatients,
without forcing workers
to stay at the hospital.
Against the bosses' bullying! Against the manoeuvres of the government!
Workers' unity and organisation.
Polyclinic: An intense morning for the staff on strike.
They kill us, they exploit us,
and flush us down the drain.
And this is what they call healthcare.
Patients, comrades.
We, the workers in the university clinics have felt the need
to make a leaflet specifically for you patients.
The fact is that we workers know in what an absurd condition you are kept.
We know how much the administration speculates on your recovery
and how the barons get rich off your backs.
The sick, in the workplace,
in factories and neighbourhoods fill the barons’ pockets,
who also continue to exploit them in the hospital.
In fact in the hospital, the various barons, instead of treating you,
use you as cannon fodder, on which they
experiment with new drugs and new techniques
to improve their science.
This is the hospital that the barons want, to keep getting fat
and exploiting the proletarians.
We workers have said enough of this absurd situation
and we went out in struggle to be united with the other hospital workers
and to make the Polyclinic a real workers' structure.
A new way to do the surgeries:
put the barons under the knife!
"Six police charges with three injured at the Policlinico."
"Dramatic turn after the strike."
Leaflet from the 16th of March 1974.
Against the repression. 24-hour strike today.
Comrades, workers.
The rector and the university clinicians continue to provoke us.
Even yesterday they tried to to frighten us,
threatening to charge the demonstration if it went to the rectory.
But this manoeuvre too, like all the others, failed.
The will of the workers has imposed itself,
but the threats and falsehoods of the rector does not end there.
On the 13th of March 1974, the rector, supported by his faithful friend Biocca,
falsely accused us workers and our struggle
of having deprived the local citizens of 2,500 hospital beds.
But this prominent figure has forgotten to mention
that the various luminaries of science have never used all these available beds.
More than 40% of them are kept empty with the excuse of teaching requirements,
either because there were not enough staff or because there were no mattresses,
toilets, rooms, medicines, etc.
In fact, the polyclinic is not a hospital, but a real sewer,
where rats,
like the various rectors and their protégés, have grown fat on the blood of the proletariat.
Our struggle, therefore, through its working class goals,
really serves to change these rotten structures,
to destroy those who have always taken advantage of it.
Today's strike is a concrete struggle
against the provocative arrest of comrade Francone,
against the other legal charges, against the continuous threats.
To make those who still turn a blind eye,
you should understand that nothing can stop us or make us afraid.
2,000 of us have turned ourselves into the police for committing the same absurd offences
that they have charged Francone with.
Free Francone,
jail the barons, liberate the comrades!
"Hospital employees charged by the police at the Polyclinic."
"Many people injured, one severely."
Leaflet from the 26th of February 1974.
Worker comrades.
The show performed for us free of charge
by trade unionists, by Professor Biocca on behalf of the rector,
by the president of the Pius Institute and by the regional representative
has demonstrated to everyone the difference between our position
and the strength of our workers' organisation
and the contradictions of the other parties.
The trade unions, who rushed to approve Malfatti's fraudulent law,
have switched into reverse gear.
The rector, poor guy, ignored the Malfatti project.
The region was in agreement with us.
The Pious Institute was ready to implement
a process to incorporate all the university staff.
Today these gentlemen meet to decide
how to implement the regionalisation.
Tomorrow they will appear before our assembly
and they will have to tell us a few clear words.
The bosses’ newspapers have long since begun
a media campaign against us.
They try to make us look like criminals
who put the lives of the sick at risk
perhaps in the hope of finding some magistrate who is more fascist than the others
who will intervene to put things in order.
The arrest warrant against Comrade Francone opens a new front in the fight.
The bosses of medicine,
the speculators of disease, have the security of impunity
and they can move ministers, public officials and judges
to try to criminalise our struggle
and to isolate it in relation to other workers in the city.
We are confronting
one of the most solid powers in the system: the power of medical scientists.
We have translated the will of the workers
to control and manage health structures into practice.
By now, the workers in the neighbourhoods and factories
are beginning to have a clear idea of the meaning of our struggle.
Despite the cordon sanitaire created around the left-wing organisations.
Against repression, against the manoeuvres of the leadership, against the power of the barons,
for regionalisation,
workers' control of health care, workers' organisation!
Fifth month. Police in the hospital - Manoeuvres on high altitude.
"Charge at the Polyclinic - 11 injured among hospital employees."
Leaflet from the 25th of February 1974.
Comrades,
on Saturday the 23rd,
the police entered the hospital and violently charged the workers.
Comrade Balducci was seriously injured.
The response of all the staff was immediate.
The polyclinic hospital workers have also started the struggle.
The threat to call the comrades of the other hospitals out on strike
was enough to make the cops retreat.
For the first time in the history of the hospital,
we saw the presence of the President of the Pious Institute,
the regional representatives
the secretaries of the trade unions.
Also Professor Biocca, who was sent by the rector.
Facing the assembly, each of these gentlemen
played his part of unloading the responsibility for the fraudulent law,
presented by Minister Malfatti, on the shoulders of others.
Facts remain facts and words words.
No one will be enchanted by these siren songs.
The rector of the university pretended to ignore us for a long time,
hoping that the fire would die down.
When our solid approach and the strikes called by the assembly
showed everyone that we workers had to be considered,
the rector started to say that he was in favour of regionalisation
and that he was making arrangements with the Ministry and the region.
We invaded the Ministry and the regional headquarters.
Meanwhile, day after day, protest march after protest march, assembly after assembly,
the trade unions wrote and said that our struggle was corporatist,
that regionalisation was unfeasible,
that it was not possible to change the situation
except by a law.
After that, we imposed free clinic visits for all workers
thanks to our mass presence.
Even the hospital doctors have distanced themselves from the barons
trying to lull us to sleep
with words of support for the economic goals of our struggle.
We shouted everywhere that we would never accept a little law
for only having higher wages
and that only regionalisation would stop the fight.
While in front of the workers the political forces,
the rector,
the Pious Institute were ready to recognise the justness of our requests,
behind our backs the barons played the card of Minister Malfatti.
That is why they were forced
to replace the carrot of money with the police stick.
Yesterday we showed strength and solidness.
Next time we will be ready. And the response will be tough.
"Clashes at the Polyclinic over barred gates."
Leaflet from the 4th of March 1974.
They no longer know how to stop us. First the sweeteners,
then the police, now the little letters.
Fellow workers,
Professors Biocca, Grifó, Guidetti and Rica, mediators of the rector,
sent an open letter to tell us:
Firstly:
that among us there are provocateurs
who want to get into a confrontation against other workers, namely policemen.
Secondly: that it would not be a sign of civility to occupy the assembly hall
and shouting insults against the barons.
Thirdly: that the hours we spend in the assembly will be deducted from our payroll.
To these gentlemen we reply, that by now the working class,
while recognising that the policemen are proletarians,
identifies in them real enemies who
defend the interests of the bosses and
fight every day against the rights of us exploited.
This alliance of theirs with the bosses
in fact leads them to exploit the power of their uniforms
and many high privileges
that capitalist society grants them in order to maintain them,
and their services against other workers.
We are not afraid of losing our 'civility'.
This is a bourgeois term which just means accepting
exploitation blindly and to give the bosses our soul as well.
By now we are aware of our struggle and our objectives
and we will carry them out against anyone who tries to stop us.
These gentlemen do not approve of our struggle,
because we write slogans with swear words on the walls
against 'respectable directors of the clinic', without putting their signature on it
and because we shout insults during the protest marches,
1,000 against one.
But they never bothered about the filth in the Polyclinic,
about the exploitation of the patients
and of us workers, of their respectable colleagues.
Calling the barons ‘a pig’ or ‘executioner’ is a minor thing
compared to all the crap that these leeches do to us day by day.
We don't care that Italian law stipulates a precise time
for assemblies.
We know that laws are made by the bosses for their own use and abuse
and that it is up to us workers to destroy this capitalist state
and all those who contribute to carry it out.
To impose a society that respects our rights and needs.
That is why we hold assemblies,
which are a means to organise ourselves
and to strengthen our fight against those who want to destroy workers' strength.
The only workers' civility is to fight the bosses and exploitation.
"Serious accidents at the Polyclinic."
Free Daniel! Freedom for the comrades!
Leaflet from the 7th of March 1974.
The official staff meeting yesterday
used double standards
by recognising workers' rights, and threatening them at the same time,
masquerading itself as a 'staff forum' during the day and afterwards.
"They arrested a porter."
Leaflet from the 18th of March 1974.
The university clinic’s Workers’ Assembly reaffirms
that the workers' struggle will not stop, neither through changes in the job description or the wages,
nor due to the constant threats from the rector and the university clinicians.
That the struggle will continue ever more combatively
until we achieve the complete unity and parity with the hospital workers.
"Self-denunciations and strike by the employees of the Polyclinic."
Leaflet from the 22nd of April 1974.
To the threats by the barons and the slanders from the fascist newspapers
we respond by strengthening
autonomous organisation to fight for our workers' objectives.
"The accused staff is on the counterattack."
"Death to the fascists - Polyclinic workers!
Leaflet from the 19th of April 1974.
The telegram text sent to President Rumor:
"The polyclinic workers, who are pissed off more than ever due to the irresponsibility
of the government of which you are a worthy representative,
warn that in the face of what happened yesterday
there are no more excuses.
The fight will have no more truce, nor limits.
If you wish
you may submit the already agreed measure
to the Council of Ministers tomorrow,
remember that if you don't make laws how we want them, then we will take them into our own hands!
Based on the request made by comrades in Greece, Palestine and Chile
the assembly has decided to convene an open assembly on Saturday the 20th
on the struggles of all proletarians in other nations.
Leaflet from the 5th of April 1974.
We are not willing to put up with any discrimination.
Comrades, the rector, faithful executor
of the will of the polyclinic barons,
showed in the Faculty Council communiqué
that was issued yesterday
that he once again bowed his head to those in power.
He let the police into the hospital yesterday.
This reopening of hostilities is a clear symptom of the ever
nearer end of the baron era.
These lords, blinded by anger at losing their power,
are now taking the gloves off and using the local police.
Sixth Month - The Government on the ropes - Victory.
"When it comes to words everyone agrees now."
Leaflet from the 18th of April 1974.
The barons are trying it again, but the workers are ready
to make them regret any of their manoeuvres.
Fellow workers,
yesterday
the Education Committee of the Chamber of Deputies met
to discuss our legislative measure.
The results of the vote were as follows:
9 votes for, 9 votes against.
So everything passes over to the discussion of the House.
This means that the government has once again bowed to the will of the barons,
trying to silence our demands.
The fault lies with all the political forces who supposedly were supporting the workers.
Evidently they preferred to side with the barons.
Risk of closure for the polyclinic
Leaflet from the 23rd of April 1974.
24-hour strike today,
to stop being taken for a ride by the government,
to no longer trust those who have always fooled us,
for the victory of our goals.
Comrades,
at yesterday's assembly the will of all of us workers
to proclaim today's strike expressed itself clearly and firmly.
"The soviet of the polyclinic."
To the comrades, this is important:
By the 3rd of May 1974 the core staff has to
report to those comrades who will copy
the complete list of the number of all available beds
approved by each clinic assembly for the purpose
of calculating with the provincial doctor the total number of beds
available for admissions.
"The Roman barons are defeated by a year of hard struggle by the polyclinic workers."
Polyclinic assembly document from the 30th of April 1974.
The university workers of the polyclinic take note of the definitive
approval of the law
which, despite its ambiguity, allows the removal of
the healthcare leadership
at the university clinics
from the hands of chairpersons
and its transfer to the regional hospital.
The assembly decides
that, despite the shortage of staff and sanitation facilities
that we face at present within the Umberto I General Hospital,
we will resume, for this transitional phase, to carry out tasks and shifts
which we would otherwise currently not complete.
After six months of struggle,
a first result
was achieved. Parliament was forced
to recognise the will to change
that was expressed by the workers of the polyclinic.
The manoeuvres of the university barons were defeated
and so was the scheming of their servants. We have responded inside and outside the hospital,
to the slander and accusations of being irresponsible and provocative
with house occupations,
with the self-reduction of bills,
with free clinics and the practice of militant anti-fascism.
The struggle paid off. For the first time
a national law was imposed directly from below.
The price was high.
Many comrades were indicted, many were arrested.
We have responded to the repression and we will respond in future.
The transfer of university workers
to the employees of the Regional Hospital Authority
is a significant moment in our struggle.
Our aim was not to relocate the health facility
from the hands of the university barons to those of the hospital barons.
The assembly is and will be committed to implement
management of the hospital in practice.
Based on the needs of the workers who have to use it.
The polyclinic workers, therefore, request
Firstly:
the elimination of contracts of vocational schools.
Secondly: the recruitment of new workers with public vacancies
only through the Pious Institute and not through the university.
Thirdly: immediate establishment of retraining courses
for all workers according to the new staff plan.
Fourth: the full utilisation of beds
against the attempt to create a research centre
in the polyclinic.
Fifth: The prohibition of any transfers that are imposed on workers.
Against the ambiguous interpretations of the law,
the workers of the polyclinic make the following points.
As of today, the workers in charge of hospital care
are no longer employed by the university barons,
but by the regional hospital authority.
Admission of patients will take place
with the increasing occupation of beds,
according to criteria that is monitored publicly.
It is forbidden for nuns to exploit the sick with petty trading and blackmail.
The operation of the outpatient clinics is to be extended
to the entire working day
and must take place in the manner already established.
The workers of the individual clinics
will determine the number of available beds
to ensure real care for the sick
and will check that the occupation of beds is not discriminatory.
The polyclinic workers finally decide
to push for a proletarian committee as management of the hospital.
To this end they will make the necessary contacts
with the workers of the factories
and the neighbourhoods served by the Policlinico Umberto I.
Long live the unity of the workers!
Long live workers' power! Against exploitation - class struggle!
The women workers of the polyclinic occupy the halls for a crèche.
We want a crèche!
Free the arrested comrades!
When this fight ends
the problems will return immediately.
This was a first fight, a big one!
Strong comrades, what we will win, we must win by force.
But after this
they will have all the weapons and all the possibilities
to take from us everything that we have won
during this time.
Let's all keep this thing in mind.
Don't be an asshole... who doesn't care about anything.
If they call for a meeting and you don't attend...
If we plan a new action and you don't discuss it...
Because comrades, remember always remember our principle:
if one thing is wrong, we say we say so in the meeting
and if it is wrong, everyone realizes that
and we are still united.
If, on the contrary, someone reads something with which he does not agree
does not communicate this and no longer participates,
then he has automatically destroyed the movement.
because automatically then nobody comes to the meeting
and you can't do anything anymore. Amen
They have divided us, destroyed us.
But when you come to the assembly
even if what written is wrong,
then you just say: What did you what kind of shit did you write?
then he knows and and won't write any more shit.
Because it's not just me who doesn't like it but the whole assembly.
So we want it to be written this way and that way.
and in the future no longer do that.
So that our common strength remains intact.
but if the guy writes shit,
and nobody intervenes,
we take all possibilities
to continue doing what we have done so far,
don't forget that.
So I make you this suggestion:
this thing here,
let us keep it as our treasure.
Let us give the answers that we must give.