A city at war for the regional capital, Catanzaro assigned instead. A real war, with five deaths and two thousand injured more than 800 arrests. Forty years ago, the revolt of Reggio Calabria. A city at war for the regional capital, Catanzaro assigned instead. A real war, with five deaths and two thousand wounded, more than 800 arrests, damage worth billions of pounds at the time. The Reggio devastated their city, were engaged in fierce clashes with the police, broke the bond that united them to the major political parties and trade unions and elected new forms of representation. In Reggio
during the riots were closed shops and offices, blocked ports, airports, railways and highways, abandoned his exams at school, latches and banks, and even the INPS. It was a revolt of the people, rioters took to the streets, but also young and old, and is alive the memory of the elderly and housewives dressed in black move between the revolutionary barricades as experts. The revolt arose from claims by a plume (the regional capital, in fact) but it had a concrete political and economic impact for a city so far cut off from the development of the boom years, and now ran the risk of losing the train in the Region, in other words, it meant a few thousand new government jobs, opening offices and offices for the departments, led the administrative and commercial, and prestige.
Reggio was upside down for eight months, during which succeeded unimaginable things: he was attacked and burned the police station, in which there were hundreds of agents. Un'autocolonna of soldiers was attacked by two commandos with petrol bombs along the highway. Finally, the tanks had to intervene to clear the barricades. It was a time of madness and violence, with politics in football. The government parties (Christian Democrats, PSI and PRI) and the PCI revolt as hastily boiled fascist CGIL, CISL and UIL were against strikes. The state television did not report for days of protest. But the rebellion at the cry of 'Executioner Spring who' went on, political parties and trade unions were bypassed and disowned by their militants, and all-out general strike was proclaimed by an improvised 'action committee led by the unknown of the union Cisnal Ciccio Franco, former commander Perna partisan and industrialist Alfred's Café Demetrio Mauro.
The political right, until then distracted, took the leadership of the motions, and the crowd set fire to the streets with the face of the puppets and Riccardo Misasi Giacomo Mancini, bigwig of the DC and PSI, both Cosenza, held the minds of theft. The weakness of the political difficulties began in the mayor Piero Battaglia, DC and much loved leader, who for months had warned the government from penalizing to Reggio choices. The confusion of the political environment was huge in those months and, faced with unmanageable public order in Rome prevailed over the logic of a heavy hand. You risk even the resignation of the President of the Republic Saragat that, as showed the journalist Domenico Nunnari Rai in a reconstruction of those years, despite everything, he had hostility and prejudice against the insurgency, the former president had sensed that these movements were the real concerns of a land that felt marginalized and humiliated , but the fascist coup.
Protests and blockades ended in February 1971 when the government of Emilio Colombo pulled out of the hat in a sort of Cencelle version Calabria, Government and allocating capital to Catanzaro, Reggio Assembly, University at Cosenza. To appease the anger Reggina was promised to build a steel center in Gioia Tauro (50 km from Reggio) and a plant in Saline Liquichimica (on the outskirts of Reggio) to 10 thousand new jobs work. Columbus appeared. It was not what they had fought the Reggio, but people were tired and wanted to return to normal. And then the promise of many jobs, really, could not fall on deaf ears. The struggle for the capital employed at least had some more. In short, the city came out defeat, but with honor. On the other hand could not end like that, after eight months of siege, and the disturbing image of tanks on the city's waterfront.
But the big joke was lying in wait: the splitting of the regional offices will soon become a source of enormous waste of money unnecessarily traveling to a regional council, in the plain of Gioia will be destroyed 1,400 hectares of citrus orchards, and razed the village of Eranova to make way for the iron and steel center, but will never be built, and finally, the Liquichimica will never get on. So, zero new jobs. In Gioia Tauro, many years after the port will be built, but most of the area was deserted steel plant is today. Meanwhile, a generation of Reggio has had time to miss the train of development.
Source: Official South
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