"The reasons why I returned my Cgil membership card after 44 years are simple and brutal. I now feel completely alienated from what this organisation really is, and I am in no position to bring about change. [...] The bureaucratic body of the CGIL is more resigned than the workers faced with the blackmail of the market and businesses. How can it communicate courage if it does not possess it? Of course, there are many comrades who do not give up, who do their duty, who take risks, but the backbone of the organisation is going in another direction, dominated by the fear of losing its residual institutional role, and when there are opportunities to turn the tables, it looks the other way."
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